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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Yet that mountain has the capability of landing more men, equipment..etc..
You seem though to have fallen asleep when the capabilities were explained to you earlier in this thread concerning the type 45 and the 4 typhoons a lot earlier in this thread..
You have to remember that the military has to get to the island first  or does logistics not count for an army of thousands????
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PMSL.. You join up, you go to a conflict zone then tell me what I'm doing..
I've in no way insulted any British forces and you're the only one who thinks so.. After you've done your length of service then you'll understand what I was saying concerning the skirmish.. |
Yes I know the capabilities. But you must have been asleep when a sustained attack was talked about. Even a type 45 can't defend the whole of the falklands at once, and can't defend against large numbers of incomming missiles and torpedos at once. And the type 45 would be Argentina's number 1 target to take out first. As for the typhoons, we only have 4 of them there. How many air to air missiles can they carry? Not enopugh to shoot down a large number of fighters, no matter how outdated they are.
Don't you think that Argentina don't know that they have a huge disadvantage as far as technology goes. So any militart strategist will simply change their strategy using a massive attack on buth the type 45 and the typhoons. Once they have gone, then they can walk straight into the Falklands.
The last war lasted a year, with 100's of casualties. That is not a Skirmish!! Like I say, I know people who fought there last time. And I know many people who have fought on the front line more recently. And I can tell you for a fact that your comments would insult them all.
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Do we know what types special forces the Argentinians have?
I'm thinking SAS / SEALS or similar. Though an all out attack is unlikely at the outset a sneak mission to disable the 4 Typhoons and whatever other damage could be done followed by a mass air/missile attack on the Type 45 to drain down its supplies of defence missiles as a prelude to a real invasion has to be a possible scenario.
Or maybe I've been watching too many animé where the same sneak plan actually works against a vastly more extensive defence force.  |
Well that is what covert special forces do. And the truth is that we don't know if they have them.
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Originally Posted by Chris
I know which analysis I consider to be more authoritative.
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It's only a deterrent force, that would mean that Argentina would have to launch a large scale attack.
At the end of the day, it all depends on if they consider their forces as cannon fodder or not. Some countries do.