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Old 25th Oct 2005, 08:36
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If we had used the money that paid for two carriers to provide more flight refuelling we could have sent more than one Vulcan at a time.

We could also have fitted the Vulcans with Sparrow or Phoenix. However without a continuous of the carriers in the zone the Argie fighters would have had no worthwhile targets.

True the landing ships would not have had short range air cover but that didn't seem to stop the Argies anyway.

Then the Vulcans could have dropped their loads nearer to ASI anyway.

Just how many Vulcan fighters and bomber would we have needed?
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