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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
What's the range of a Lynx? What's the range when you add in the capacity of the internal fuel bladders as stated in the plate notes?
Given South Georgia is administered from the Falklands, and as far as I am aware, the Falklands themselves are the focus of military operations, what's to say the helicopters aren't used right across the area (besides fuel of course)?
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According to wiki 328 miles with standard tanks. Haven't a clue what the bladders would add.
What you suggest is possible, however the plate notes do specifically refer to the Lynxes being assigned to the British garrison of the South Georgia Islands (Which I take to mean the South Sandwich Islands) and as noted that's a completely different island chain than the Falklands. That suggests to me the Lynx has recently arrived in the South Sandwich Islands from somewhere and it seems to me much more likely that it came from the Falklands than the UK.