Interesting fact - during the Falklands war, a number of Royal Navy ships were secretly carrying nuclear weapons, including nuclear bombs, nuclear depth charges etc.
The reason was that the ships were kept prepared for NATO actions against Russia, and the RN decided it would take too long to offload their nuclear weapons, so they sailed to the Falklands carrying nuclear weapons. This was one of the most closely guarded secrets during the conflict because the MoD were worried about the Argentines trying to capture our nuclear weapons if any of those ships were sunk.
At the time, the deployed RN ships carried 75% of the RN nuclear depth charged to the Falklands!
The decision was taken that once the ships were there, they would offload the weapons to HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible as they carried hardened weapons holds. THis means that 75% Britain's surface fleet nuclear weapons ended up being carried on 2 ships!
Military planners in London were extremely secretive of this fact in case the USSR found this out.
The Falklands were a very good victory to us after all the USA said we could not retake the Falkland’s, well we showed the world we still have a very good Navy and could fight and retake an island that was ours thousands of miles from the UK, and the RN were crippled weren’t they massively underfunded during the years before the war?
