One weapon used in this conflict was the Exocet anti-shipping missile, which the losing side in this conflict used to sink the HMS Sheffield.
One weapon used in this conflict was the Exocet anti-shipping missile, which the losing side in this conflict used to sink the HMS Sheffield. After landing at Port San Carlos, one side in this conflict recaptured (*) Goose Green, and that side, which utilized the Harriet vertical takeoff fighter/bomber in this conflict, also landed on South Georgia Island. Started in part by Leopoldo Galtieri  in order to distract his people from domestic troubles, this war ended shortly after the capture of Stanley on one of the islands that this conflict's losers called Las Malvinas. For 10 points, name this short 1982 war fought between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the namesake South Atlantic islands.
One weapon used in this conflict was the Exocet anti-shipping missile, which the losing side in this conflict used to sink the HMS Sheffield.
{Falklands} War