The Handley Page Victor K2 force was perhaps the RAF’s most versatile asset during the Falklands War. As well as air-to-air refuelling, the Victors initially flew high-priority maritime radar reconnaissance missions and were equipped to carry out low-level photographic flights — which, thankfully, never went ahead
In the flurry of preparations to get most of the RAF’s Victor K2 tanker force ready for deployment to Ascension Island from early April 1982, urgent operational requirements soon emerged. The absence of satellite imagery or access to South American airfields from which to launch intelligence-gathering flights meant information was needed about Argentine military activities, especially the movements of its naval forces.
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