A handful of British Royal Marines nicknamed Mills' Marauders, were outnumbered by over 100–1, used an RPG to attack Argentine Corvette ARA Guerrico which was leading the attack on South Georgia. They holed it beneath the water line and destroyed its Exocet launchers and front gun causing it to withdraw from the assault. They also report “putting sniper fire through the Guerrico's bridge so they didn't know where they were going.”
In the same assault they also shot down a Puma helicopter gunship sent in to hunt them down and kill them using only small arms fire.
Their initial orders had been "When asked to surrender you are not to do so."
The 22 Royal Marines who took on Argentine Falklands invasion force
One of the marines reports - "At the end our escape route had been cut off and one of us had been hit in the arm. I was about to put some mortars down on the shore when I saw the officer walking towards the enemy. He just went up to them and said that we'd fight to the last and carry on killing them and it was the Argies who “called it a day”.” [after ceasefire] "They couldn't believe there were only 22 of us.”
The RPG was an 84mm Carl Gustav - they also fired the rounds into the officer’s wardroom and engine room to maximise panic and chaos.
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