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Old 7th Oct 2006, 17:46
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Navaleye
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The Argentines never made serious effort to base FJs at Stanley for two reasons

1. They thought it was too small
2. If they had they would have been bombed by the aircraft and would very quickly be targetted by naval gunfire. Its hard to operate an airfield under shellfire.

As I said before the most important result achieved was the withdrawal of the M3s north.
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