HQ2,
depends how much warning they get, and how much they get to hit the credit card for spares.
despite all the nay-sayers about slagging the argentines down for being chaotic and unable to shoot themselves in the foot, let alone invade, there's only one country invovled in this dispute that has doubled its defence budget in the last two years, and they haven't bought any tanks.
the open sourse stuff i've read suggests twenty airworthy fast jets with 10 or so those at some degree or other of combat capability. the problem is of course that the FI AD set-up won't be able to tell which jets are merely airworthy, and which are dangerous. any RAF officer who couldn't come up with a plan to do the deed with those assets facing an adversary with four fast jets, probably quite restrictive ROE, one tanker, one runway and no AWACS ought to be applying for redundancy...