Another Falklands conflict?

Alan Dicey wrote:
Jeroen Wenting wrote:

"Jim Watt" wrote in message
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On 28 Feb 2006 16:05:30 -0800, wrote:

It looks like tensions between Britain and Argentina are on the rise:

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=296232006

Is there any chance Argentina might try taking the Falklands again?

Would they have a good chance of success if they tried?

The British learnt a lot from the Falklands conflict, if they invaded
again it suggests Argentina did not.

Argentina has since rearmed, Britain no longer has a third of the
capability to wage war compared to the last time.
And they're already engaged in Iraq, an operation taking up most of
their strategic transport capability.

I'm of the opinion that the Argentinians could very well succeed in
taking the islands and keeping them.


We have Tornado's at Port Stanley.

We have a small flight of tornadoes at Mount Pleasant (4 I think, the
RAF website is down at the moment) I doubt they could do much more than
local area defense of the airfield.

Assuming we had tankers at Ascention can anyone guess how long it would
take to fly down additional F3s?