Britain's Defences

What is their premier fighter plane though ?

A quick online check shows they still use the A4 as well as Mirage III, Finger and Mirage V.

Are any of them a match for the Typhoon, able to engage multiple targets ?

4 Typhoons there can easily be increased should tensions escalate.
 
It can only carry so many air to air weapons plus it's quite a long way away, so what would happen a single pilot fly a typhoon for 18 hours then fight an enemy with perhaps no prospect of landing?
 
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Von Smallhausen said:
What is their premier fighter plane though ?

A quick online check shows they still use the A4 as well as Mirage III, Finger and Mirage V.

Are any of them a match for the Typhoon, able to engage multiple targets ?

4 Typhoons there can easily be increased should tensions escalate.
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Just like the last time we had plenty of warning?
 
4 Typhoons would be more than a match for Argentina's 15 questionably serviceable fighter aircraft. The attrition the Argentines would sustain in the air environment would be shocking.
 
The Funktopus said:
The P-3's although far more numerous now will run into the same problem Nimrods will, that they've been out of production for years, and sourcing parts will only get harder. IMHO the RAF/MOD should have bought into the Boeing P8 Posiedon. Being based on the fuselage of a Boeing 737-800 and using the wings of a 737-900ER, aircraft that continue to roll off the production lines now and well into the future, obtaining parts would be a doddle, and training and what not would be something that we could do jointly with the US Navy.

Spending billions upgrading ever fewer, nearly 50 year old Nimrod's was a disastrously short sighted decision.
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Having a read and it looks like inda has ordered 12:eek: Didn't know the orion had been discontinued. The P8 looks the part, makes you wonder how bae got the contracts in the first place. DO the jobs bae provide add that much to the economy that its ok to have the nimrod program and the likes?
 
How exactly would the 4 Typhoons work?

2 up at a time and hide the other two whilest getting them ready?

I know the Typhoon is far superior to anything they have, and can target multiple emenies at once, but something is bound to slip past. The Typhoons not in use at the time would need to be well hidden, or defended from the ground.
 
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Von Smallhausen said:
The Falkands couldn't be attempted without air superiority and I wouldn't have thought the Argentine air force have anything to even come close to matching the Typhoon.
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fadetoblack said:
The FAA operates 195 aircraft of various types, including 26 attack aircraft and 15 fighter aircraft. We have 4 Typhoons there ;)
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I actually think the Typhoons would win. Thier planes are ancient, they haven't changed since the last falklands war, and they were old then.
 
The first warning we'd have that Argentina were planning something would be if the AAF suddenly started buying (or trying to at least) parts for the vintage Dassault Mirage and IAI Finger variants they have in mothballs on various bases. Plus that they started increasing their pilot's flying annual flying hours to over a few score each year (which is currently far below what most air forces would currently consider combat ready or even proficient). We'd only have a couple of years to reinforce the Islands then.

IIRC the last count placed 8 of the 200 or so badly outdated fast jets in the Argentine inventory in a serviceable condition. As bad as the defence cuts are for us, they're nothing compared to what's happened to the Argentine forces since 1982.
 
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