FWIW from
One of their aircraft is missing
"1st June 1982.
0950 hours.
Sharkey WardNo.801 Squadron CAP (Lt. N. Ward and Lt. S. Thomas) destroy Argentine C-130 Hercules 93 km north of Pebble Island. Wards first AIM-l9 Sidewinder he fired fell short of the C-130, but the second started a fire between the port engines, Ward then fired 240 rounds of 30mm, which broke the aircraft's wing of sending it crashing into the sea killing the 7 crew members. This particular C-130 is believed to have been trying to repeat a bombing attempt made by another C-130 the previous day, when an Argentine C-130 made a bombing attack on a British tanker well north of the total exclusion zone. One bomb struck the ship, but bounced off to no effect.
Official Argentine Sources state:
June 1st:
The C-130(TC-63) was looking for sea targets using the on board weather radar. During the attack you mention to the tanker, bombs were dropped from TERs installed under the wings of the C-130! Not dropped from the back door."
Assuming thats correct, it more than justifies the attack on the C-130
The report isn't correct in that the tanker was the Liberian flagged
Hercules supertanker. The bomb failed to go off, but remained aboard the ship. The insurers decided to scupper her rather than risk removing the bomb