Falkland Is.'s under dispute again

[RTHolmes]

yeah we get the new carriers and the F35s about 2012/14 i think

in the meantime we still have 3 invincible class carriers equipped with Harrier GR7, unlike the Sea Harrier essentially a strike plane with no radar. your right, this is a worrying gap in capability. the choice was to build a new set of Sea Harriers or refit the GR7 with radar, both for just 5 years of service, both a big waste of money. the result is that fleet air defense is covered by ship-based missiles and GR7s with AIM9s and pilots with good eyesight. good thing we've got decent AEW choppers...

[FrodeMk3]

yeah we get the new carriers and the F35s about 2012/14 i think

in the meantime we still have 3 invincible class carriers equipped with Harrier GR7, unlike the Sea Harrier essentially a strike plane with no radar. your right, this is a worrying gap in capability. the choice was to build a new set of Sea Harriers or refit the GR7 with radar, both for just 5 years of service, both a big waste of money. the result is that fleet air defense is covered by ship-based missiles and GR7s with AIM9s. good thing we've got decent AEW choppers...

See, that's the crux of the whole problem, right there. For one, Argentina's military is different today, too. They scrapped their CV. They just have land-based planes. However, they've added some FFG's and Corvettes' that carry Exocets', and since the Malvinas'(OOPS, Falklands!) are only 300 miles' offshore, land-based aircraft can hit it anyway. I take it, that the RAF extended the runways' at the Airport there to handle the Typhoons, correct? The one problem that the Argie's had last time, was that they couldn't operate their A-4's or Super-Entendards' from Port Stanley's airfield. It was only big enough to handle Pucara's. From what I've read, the Argentine's haven't really done much to their Air Force since '82, apart from an upgrade to the A-4 fleet.

[Lumpy]

Well, you guys won the Falklands war with army Harriers on your carriers. Bet you could do it again.

[xbrit]

Well, you guys won the Falklands war with army Harriers on your carriers. Bet you could do it again.

hmm they were RAF and RN Harriers, no Harriers in Army inventory.

[Lumpy]

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[Lumpy]

hmm they were RAF and RN Harriers, no Harriers in Army inventory.

Meant RAF, sorry.

[xbrit]

Meant RAF, sorry.

No problem.
At least the facilities at Ascension Island were upgraded so resupply would be a lot easier than the last time. Though they showed an armada leaving UK quite a few ships were deployed from Gibraltar, were they were on exercise at the time. I remember working 18 hour shifts for the first few weeks getting supplies into Gib and then down to the dockyard and then later with aircraft staging through on the way to Ascension.