Augusto Bedacarratz Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Bedacarratz retired from the Argentine Navy in 1991, with over 3,500 military flying hours and 200 carrier landings.

Frigate Captain Augusto Bedacarratz is an Argentina naval aviator who led the mission on 4 May 1982 that sank HMS Sheffield during the Falklands War using the Exocet AM.39 anti-ship missile. It was the first sinking of a Royal Navy ship in four decades.

On 4 May 1982, an Argentine scout plane located Sheffield. Bedacarratz and Lieutenant Armando Mayora were the two pilots on duty in the Search and Attack Naval Squadron, and were ordered to take off. Neither pilot had fired an Exocet missile before. The two Super Etendard planes detected Sheffield, out of sight, from 20 miles away. Four seconds after Bedacarratz pressed the release button, the Exocet left his aircraft. Lieutenant Mayora, after seeing the Exocet launch, fired his own Exocet.

He joined the Argentine Naval Academy, graduating first in his class in 1965.