Argentina to invade Falklands after 30th anniversary furore dies down

[Audio]

... If Britain can get some Typhoons to the island and more marines in anticipation, Argentina does not stand a chance...

RAF deploys four Typhoons to Falklands-Jane's Defence


Since 2009 lol.

 

[JanjaWeed]

There is no way in hell Argentina can pull this off. Not now, not in a few years.

In fact now is a good time, in a few years Royal Navy will have atleast 1 if not 2 new carriers with F-35's, more type 45 destroyers.....

It's more to do with current geo-political situation in South America than anything to do with military might of both nations. Ofcourse Britain will be too much for Argentina even now, with Argies unilaterally disarming themselves since 1990s due to their poor economic circumstances.

This time Argentina is using different weapon. They seems to think this is the first time that all of Latin America is with Argentina in this claim, even Brazil, even Chile. That makes a change in the situation, and makes the Argentine position much stronger than before. That's what i was trying to imply in my previous post.

Having said all that... falklands island isn't going anywhere & britain will continue to control that piece of land for the forseeable future. Even people living in falklands wants to be part of britain than that of Argentina.

 

[Audio]

Well, i have some bad news for the British F-35.

BBC News - Ministers discuss U-turn on F-35 fighter planes

That link says that they are considering towards going with the initial plan of buying STOVL versions;
F-35B and a carrier with a ski jump.
Sometime ago they decided they want to have the American catapult system and switched the order to a more F-35C favourable mix.
Now they realized the cost of redesigning the carrier for the catapult system has risen by quite a lot and they are considering to abandon it altogether and go back to the ski jump/F-35B combo.

From the first article below:

The U.K., which initially was going to buy Stovl F-35s, two years ago opted to purchase F-35Cs instead.
Now, however, London is thinking about reversing course, after realizing that it may be more expensive over the life of the entire carrier-strike program to shift to the F-35C. The decision of whether to return to the F-35B is to be finalized as part of PR12, which London has been slow to complete as it struggles to balance the books in the budget update.

U.K. F-35 Ready for Takeoff (Update)-Aviationweek

F-35: BAE Systems faces turbulent times over carriers-BBC

While the first QE class carrier will be delayed till 2020.

Britain’s Future CVF Carriers: the Queen Elizabeth Class

I agree the carrier programme is plagued by some poor management and lack of funds, but it's slowly coming together :

This is a couple of days old photo. Four of these sections were already built for the first carrier and first section for the second carrier.

 

[Mahmoud_EGY]

good luck to argantina i think now argantina is much stronger and the rest of south amercia countrys are allays

 

[888jamie888]

They won't invade. An invasion would mean them losing all credibility as they have said time and time again that they want to solve the issue peacefully.
Unfortunately for them, Britain sees the issue as already solved.

 

[T-Rex]

Well, if you read your history (as you sip more of that coffee), you will know that Argentina invaded first. Britain's response was purely defensive.

Britain's response was an eye for an eye, if you didn't know the meaning of this idiomatic expression.

 

[Patriot]

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi-Ji

Are you ashamed of tricolor?

 

[Alienoz_TR]

There is no way in hell Argentina can pull this off. Not now, not in a few years.

In fact now is a good time, in a few years Royal Navy will have atleast 1 if not 2 new carriers with F-35's, more type 45 destroyers.....

In a few years time Britain will be drowning in debt. Scotland Will declare independence. British army Will lack of funds.

 

[Carlos 'Cypher' Renato]

Argentina don't have any means to attack the Falklands. The FIDF and the British army in the islands are stronger now while the argies are weaker.
Its too bad that our 'hermanos' can't admit that the Falklands are rightfully british.

 

[SR 71 Blackbird]

April Fool for Argentinians.

 

[Ulysses]

Argentina would be wiped out.....

 

[forumstalker]

Alarmist article by an alarmist commander. Completely unhelpful, if not stupid, thing to say.

Regardless, Argentina does not have the capacity for a conventional invasion nor the political will for another conflict.
Military blockade by Argentinian forces, for example against fishing vessels and oil installations (when they are built), is more possible but just as less as likely.

A more practical route for Argentina would be to invest in the Falklands over a long period of time, to show the benefits of Argentinian influence. This is self-defeating for Argentina, as it could be construed as recognising British sovereignty (COULD, by some), and because of 1982 and the recent sabre-rattling by President Fernandez, the islanders have little reason to trust such efforts, and would view such overtures in a negative light (in fact, they do) and therefore Argentinian investment efforts would be turned away by the Falkland Islands government.

Furthermore, about the UK "stealing" the mineral resources and profitting from them: has anyone on this forum made or willing to make calaculations as to how much the UK itself would really benefit from Falklands oil? In the same way that only the Falkland Islanders have benefitted from fisheries (the UK does not take money from the Falklands like that, per se), the oil money would probably be rolled back into the Falklands themselves.

Would Argentina, if it had sovereignty over the FI, let the oil money stay with the islands, or take from them?

 

[Carlos 'Cypher' Renato]

Also Argentina should not talk about "stolen lands" because they have taken a good part of Chilean Patagonia, this they do not talk