The Task Force went south with, among other things, 100 AIM9-L Sidewinders- then the latest version- the first truly effective all-aspect version. This was one of the unpublicised pieces of US support- on the personal authority of President Reagan, the UK were permitted to take 100 missiles from NATO war stocks, with the US guaranteeing to replace them. The Argentines had no equivalent weapon; it is doubtful if they would have had the training or doctrine to mount an effective CAP-busting mission.
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04-22-2012, 06:00 PM
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