During this mission, sensitive documents had to be ejected into the sea after one plane lacked enough fuel to return to Ascension. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this operation consisting of several long range bombings by Avro Vulcans on Port Stanley’s airfield. This extraordinarily expensive mission may have been an attempt to prevent the Royal Air Force’s budget from being cut.
ANSWER: Operation Black Buck [or Black Buck raid]
[10m] It’s been claimed that the Black Buck raids led to this ship attacking the British navy in the aftermath. This Argentine ship was eventually sunk by the submarine Conqueror, spawning the controversial headline “GOTCHA.”
ANSWER: ARA General Belgrano
[10e] The Black Buck raids remained the longest range raid until a bombing campaign during Operation Enduring Freedom, an intervention in this country. RAF involvement in this country included air striking the Taliban, who seized this country’s capital of Kabul in 2021.
ANSWER: Afghanistan [or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; or Imārat-i Islāmī-yi Afghānistān; accept Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; or Jumhūrī-yi Islāmī-yi Afġānistān]
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