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Old 04-02-2012, 19:22   #80
Tim Deegan
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising again ahead of Prince William visit

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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
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.
But they will have air superiority, which is all they need to fly troops and equipment in, and to launch air attacks on our ships.

Without the carriers we wouldn't have won last time.
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