BORN of NECESSITY

摘要

The evening of 4 May 1982 saw Britain numbed by the news that the Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield had been crippled by an Argentine anti-ship missile attack in the waters off the Falkland Islands. Sheffield, deployed as a radar picket some 20 miles ahead of the main Task Group, had been struck by an AM39 Exocet launched from a Dassault Super Etendard fighter/attack aircraft and, despite the best efforts of her crew, had succumbed to the rapid spread of fire and smoke. Twenty men died, and a further 26 were injured.