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Old 04-02-2012, 18:43   #79
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising again ahead of Prince William visit

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan View Post
You can't fight off an air assult using just submarines though.

As soon as Cameron scrapped out aircraft carriers I though that Argentina would start to kick off.
Of course you can't but there aren't just submarines there. As has already been stated there is a state of the art destroyer, plus the ground defences. The Argentinians can't occupy the Falklands without naval superiority and they don't have it.

It's all academic anyway because this fuss is just the usual rhetoric designed to take Argentinian minds off problems at home.
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