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Corvette Captain Roberto Curilovic is a former Argentinian Navy pilot of Croatian descent. His attack on 25 May 1982 in the Falklands War sank the Atlantic Conveyor with an Exocet AM.39 anti-ship missile. ==Career== He finished his naval training at the Escuela Naval Militar in 1969, flying the North American T-28 Trojan.〔(Interview )〕 In September 1980 he went with eight pilots and around forty technicians of the 2da Escuadrilla Aeronaval de Caza y Ataque (2nd Air Naval Fighter and Strike Squadron) to the naval base at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime in south-west France (Poitou-Charentes). They were intensively taught French for three months. The commander was Frigate Captain Jorge Colombo of the Argentine Naval Aviation (CANA). The deputy commander was Corvette Captain Augusto Bedacarratz, who with Frigate Lieutenant Armando Mayora would also jointly use the Exocet. They were sent to the air naval base at Landivisiau in Finistère, north-west France where they then learnt how to fly the AMD-BA Super Étendard, being given up to 50 hours of flight training each. They were also taught about the Aérospatiale AM.39 Exocet missile. The missile was named after the biological family ''Exocoetidae''. In July 1981 the unit returned to the Comandante Espora air naval base (Base Aeronaval Comandante Espora) in Argentina. The Argentine Navy had ordered 14 Super Étendard aircraft, and the first five arrived in December 1981. The navy had also ordered 14 Exocet missiles, with the planes, in 1979. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roberto Curilovic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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