The Battle Group Six raid was an attack on the USN Carrier Battle Group VI (USNCBG-VI) by the Brazilian Air Force on October 26, 1982, in which two squadrons of Brazilian planes flew a nearly 900 mile round trip originating at Cochimbo Airfield in central Brazil to strike CBG-VI in the Amazonian Delta before landing at several undisclosed locations to avoid interception by scrambled American and Colombian jets. The Brazilian squadron sank two Navy vessels and damaged four others, including the USS Oliver Hazard Perry, the group's aircraft carrier. With the sinking of the USS Arkansas, a fairly new guided missile cruiser, and the USS John Minnow, a support vessel, along with damages to the USS Hazard Perry, the destroyers USS Cerro Gordo and USS Snohomish and the guided missile cruiser USS