The Argentines planned to do a pincer attack against the RN task force - Belgrano and escorts (and lots of Exocets) from the South, and the Argentine carrier coming from the North with up to ten A-4Q Skyhawks. At the same time, two Exocet armed Super Eterndard would have sortied from Rio Grande. Plans to use submarines were frustrated by the fact that as the war started, two of four were out of service, and the Santa Fe had been disabled and captured close to South Georgia.
Then the Junta planned to stop British forces from landing, but did not expect a landing at San Carlos. Despite the ferocity of the attacks, they were unable to destroy the ships carrying the troops - the defence by frigates, destroyers, and Sea Harriers worked, but not without cost.. Then the planned to stop resupply, even resorting to using Hercules to drop bombs from the teat ramp against task group shipping. It was a race against time to stop the British advance gaining momentum.
They ran out of aircraft before we ran out of ships (which were mostly repairable).
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