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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I think had the Argentinians prepared a viable runway for the super etandards and Mirages on the Island they could have dominated the air which would have made everything impossible and enabled them to challange the task force further out in the Atlantic, plus put a considerable force on the islands to challange a landing the task force would have been in trouble, the Argentinians just never thought the Brits would come at them.
The Mirage was far supiorior to the harrier in an air to air role, the argies should have found a way to use this huge weakness in the Brit arsenal, instead they left them on the mainland and essentially fought with half their arsenal.
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Maybe, but remember that the Brits did have their cruise missile capable submarines in the area and any air strip would have been probably hit and hit over and over again.
I agree the Argentinian's had a huge disadvantage in terms of having to keep their planes on the mainland.
The British Harrier had a decent enough war at that time to the point where the Argentine's were scrubbing raids whenever they detected the Harrier radar systems in the air.
Argentina lost their command and control capability navy wise when they lost the Belgrando.
The British Marines and Special Forces were also superior to Argentina's.