Navaleye,
the four Argentine MEKO destroyers are all armed with Aspide SAM - the range of which is, according to the half-dozen sources i found, somewhere between 20km and 75km.
the accepted range of Sea Skua is between 20 and 25km.
i'm not sure that allows us to be overly sanguine about the RN's ability to negate enemy surface vessels. we should also bear in mind that Argentina has three reasonably effective German built SSK's - it is therefore possible that our T45 is going to be a bit busy keeping them at arms length, rather than fcuking about with surface strike missions.
Last edited by cokecan; 7th Feb 2012 at 14:45.