Like being defeated in a disastrous war?
Publicly humilliated over something again. At which point they'll shut up for about 30 years and then start nattering again.
Happy?

Like being defeated in a disastrous war?
Publicly humilliated over something again. At which point they'll shut up for about 30 years and then start nattering again.
Happy?![]()
Like claiming, at a UN conference, that the Argintine intelligence knows the location of a UK nuclear armed submarine?
Like being defeated in a disastrous war?
But in Argentina they weren't defeated, they were just really unlucky, while the uk were very lucky.
They were unlucky their bombs didn't explode (didn't drop them within correct parameters)
They were unlucky exocet didn't hit carriers (didn't identify targets/Uk countermeasures worked)
While the UK were lucky to hit the Belgrano (would've missed if we'd not been on target)
Lucky that we had better aircraft, with better weapons and pilots....etc
The Argentinians don't really want to accept they were well beat.
But in Argentina they weren't defeated, they were just really unlucky, while the uk were very lucky.
They were unlucky their bombs didn't explode (didn't drop them within correct parameters)
They were unlucky exocet didn't hit carriers (didn't identify targets/Uk countermeasures worked)
While the UK were lucky to hit the Belgrano (would've missed if we'd not been on target)
Lucky that we had better aircraft, with better weapons and pilots....etc
The Argentinians don't really want to accept they were well beat.
Luckily the Argentine government (so far) hasn't threatened any military action. Their military hasn't had any real upgrades since the war and ours is advanced. That would be a futile waste of life.
Thanks lads, just doing what anyone else would have done. I don't feel like I have done anything special.
They were well and truely embarrassed. The US Naval Command said that the UK counter-invasion was militarily impossible, the Argentines had superior numbers, superior air support, superior logistical support and also had material and military support from Peru and Libya....The UK had a cobbled together task force and limited logistical support......what made it even more embarressing for the Argentines wasn't that the UK accomplished that military impossibility, but they achieved it relatively easily and quickly.
The Argentines should be thanking the UK, without that defeat the military junta would not have collapsed and therefore ushered democracy into Argentina.
Luckily the Argentine government (so far) hasn't threatened any military action. Their military hasn't had any real upgrades since the war and ours is advanced.
The french stopped supplying them when the war started and made the ones destined for their allies circle the atlantic. America don't make or sell exocet.
Also the french and the americans sold them Exocet missiles... scumbags!
According to Janes, the Type 45 Destroyer Dauntless could effectively engage and potentially defeat the entire Argentine Air Force on its own.....![]()
Also the french and the americans sold them Exocet missiles... scumbags!
It's true but if they took the Islands we have no power projection now, we can't retake them.
Yet we project power across several theatres simultaneously even now.....hmmmmm