Iran should deploy a few shahab-3 missiles in Argentina.In case Britain attacks Iran.Iran can retailate and help Argentina in liberating the islands from the british imperialists.

Originally posted by Mister_Bit

You don't think they may have learnt from past mistakes? Built up plans for the past 30 years? Rebuilt their armed forces?
Whereas the UK has all but dismantled theirs.

They haven't built up anything. If they had then they would have built up their amphibious landing capability three fold. The file for the re-invasion plan is empty. They have nothing under successive Argentine Civilian governments that have kept their purse strings tightly closed for a reason. It would take years of investment and re-equipping to gain the capability to re-take the islands. They know this themselves that is why the Argentine President is simply bumping her gums purely for political grandstanding.

Originally posted by mkgandhas
Iran should deploy a few shahab-3 missiles in Argentina.In case Britain attacks Iran.Iran can retailate and help Argentina in liberating the islands from the british imperialists.

Yeah, you could then bet your bottom dollar, that Argentina would then be turned into a glass car park.

If you love the Persians so much, why not go and live there?

Argentina are now pushing to take over the commercial flights to the Falklands from Chile.

They want the contract with Chile to be scrapped and awarded to the main Argentine air carrier.

Is it just me or is that a little bit obvious?

Could be that it's what it's been all about, getting some commercial monopoly, but really it's value would be small potatoes to go to such lengths.

What I was thinking was that at present Argentina wouldn't easily be able to launch an attack on the Falklands because of our air cover, they have no way to get troops over there, or attack the airfield without a significant response from our fighters & defences at Mount Pleasant.

But commercial airliners land at Mount Pleasant.

Pack a commercial airliner with explosives and/or commandos, land it on the runway, the commandos attack the aircraft, the explosives take out the runway.

No more air cover.

Awarding Argentina this contract would give them a way to easily get to the Falklands, more specifically to the heart of our defences.

It'd take a brave man to decide to shoot down a commercial airliner whatever intelligence you had about what was on board.

I can't see why Argentina have been so aggressive, then suddenly want to support the Falklanders when not so long ago they were talking about banning flights to them.

All smells very fishy.

The Falkand Islands has always been about the oil

I did 2 tours down there 1989 and 1990 and it was a well known fact then that there were huge oil reserves off the Islands.

The Island is too well defended these days and reinforcements can be there in a day. This includes personell and aircraft. No way will argentina attack its all just posturing by the Argentian Government. In 82 we were unprepared now we are!

Still amuses me that the nickname for the locals was Bennys though. Be ause they all look like Benny from Crossroads