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Old 21st Dec 2016, 13:36
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Arclite01
 
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If you read 'Soldier I' there was similar plans done for an attack at Port Stanley with a C130 loaded with SF and equipment to crash onto the runway and wreak havoc. It was canned fairly early on I seem to recall as a virtual suicide mission.

Similar missions against Argentine airfield targets would probably have had devasting results on the parked aircraft and facilities (like Pebble Island) but the suicidal nature of the assault would have meant heavy casualties and also as previously mentioned the ratcheting up of the political stakes............ our position would have had to have been incredibly precarious for this type of mission to be actually launched.

Planning them is one thing - Execution quite another...........

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