From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri May 26 2006 - 18:12:07 PDT
At 9:51 AM +0930 5/27/06, dgrev wrote:
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>IIRC correctly, from the military point of view it was a bust as
>the mission did not succeed in denying the use of the runway
>at Port Stanley? If this is so, it must have been a huge disappointment
>to all who so obviously did their utmost to get the job done?
It gave the Argies pause and dissuaded them from
running anything but the Pucara's from Port
Stanley. The Mirage II fighters were withdrawn to
cover Argentine land proper since Vulcans could
hit the Falkands they could ALSO hit Argentine
bases in Argentina. This meant that the Harriers
had free reign over the Islands save for worries
of ground fire.
Excellent writeup here: http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/vulcan.htm
and here http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/air-war.htm
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