Originally Posted by
MickG0105
The Battle of Bubiyan of the first Gulf War saw over 20 Iranian Navy vessels sunk in one action. Mainly smaller vessels like fast attack craft, patrol boats and mine layer/sweepers were sunk, over half to Royal Navy Sea Skua missiles (~30 kg HE warhead), half a dozen to laser-guided bombs. There was even an attempted engagement of a fast attack boat by a Canadian Hornet using a Sparrow air-to-air missile - the Hornet could lock the target up but the missile failed to track.
Did we really sink Iranian Navy ships in the first Gulf War or were they Iraqi?