Falklands defence review after military deal between Russia and Argentina
 

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Falklands defence review after military deal between Russia and Argentina
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Good job MoD invested in some long range SAMs.

Su 24, nicknamed the Bencer because it was never a proper fighter. Would be nice to splash one to make up my 5!

I imagine that it is not only HMG that will be looking at options.

Indeed, some concerned watchers from over the Andes I would imagine

Russian expansion of influence into Sth America...RasPutin leading the charge.

Fencer is comparable to the F-111.

It's ok, as long as the U.S. maintain the house of Saud by controlling the subhuman islamist scum North of the Saudi border, thereby keeping the Saudi government in power, the oil price will be kept in check....

I think after 3 trillion plus spent in Iraq, we have finally leaned from that 2000 year old dead Chinese bloke.... Win all without fighting.

My prediction is Russia will be on the bones of its arse by June next year. Hopefully having a few of its ships repo'ed in port like the argies did a while back....

I would love to see how the Argentinian gubbermint plan to pay for said flankers... Unless they have some spare cadburys gold coins left over from this years Christmas stocking.

Anybody going to make any comparison with the Typhoon v SU24. And what the outcome would be. I strongly suspect the Typhoon would come out on top. But its the Argentine special forces that would be the concern. If they managed to get ashore and disabled what we have, could make things very interesting.

VinRouge

From the link in #1

Ah whats the fuss about - a dozen not that much of a fright (by the time they learn how to operate them, even with "advisors" and taking into account they will have say no more than 8 operational at any one time, probably less...), only gets exciting if they carry on a follow on order to lease say 24 Su-30 :ok:

Put Russian pilots in them and it may be a different story! This all stems from the US poking Putin in the eye with a big stick ie oil price! It's going to get much more difficult to see where the real threat is coming from!

But I believe it is coming!:ugh:

By the time they've got them operational, do you suppose that we might have a carrier with F35s on it that we could station there ........ no ........ s'pose not....... sorry.

The biggest concern is not necessarily the delivery vehicle, but the stuff that hangs off the hard points. I'd be worried if the arms shipment might include the likes of AS-17, AS-13 & AS-11, for example - all carried by Soviet 24s.

Falklands II
 

Hello, just finished reading 'Ghost Force' by Patrick Robinson.
A rather far stretched book about Russia helping Argentina
to invade the Falklands. Fiction of course.

Remember Pearl Harbor and Singapore chaps...

Seems a plausible future situation, enough agro to be noticed, but not enough to start WW3.

What like Crimea or Eastern Ukraine? Surely not... :ugh:

LJ

Ghost Force (2006) - Ghost Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I do wish authors would stop giving the bad guys ideas...:}

LJ

The moment they made a move, they'd fly home to find their airfields had just been SLCMed.

Aint gona happen.

We should be more annoyed at their paltry dosh however slimly bailing out Putin

FWIW, the story is being PISTON EXGREATHEIGHT, as they used to say, in the Argentine press.