Originally Posted by
BigDotStu
France declined to send the engineers across to Argentina to help integrate the air-launched Exocets with the aircraft (although the Argentinian engineers managed to work it out themselves as they had previously had some training on it).
You are correct........they were already there.
"Behind the scenes, actions were speaking louder than words. In what would appear to be a clear breach of President Mitterrand's embargo, a French technical team - mainly working for a company 51% owned by the French government - stayed in Argentina throughout the war.In an interview carried out in 1982 by Sunday Times journalist Isabel Hilton, the team's leader, Herve Colin, admitted carrying out one particular test that proved invaluable to Argentinian forces.
"The verification process involves determining if the missile launcher was functioning correctly or not. Three of the launchers failed. We located the source of the problem and that was it. The rest was simple."
How France helped both sides in the Falklands War - BBC News