Comments on: Op Corporate 2, Calm Down Please http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2010/02/op-corporate-2-calm-down-please/ A progressive view on UK military affairs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:33:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mat http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2010/02/op-corporate-2-calm-down-please/#comment-1081 Mat Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:46:12 +0000 http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/?p=2337#comment-1081 PS What we *really* need are some specialised missiles that will fly straight to Buenos Aires and spraypaint "Maradona walks like a big girl" on the side of Boca Juniors FC's football stadium ;o) PS What we *really* need are some specialised missiles that will fly straight to Buenos Aires and spraypaint “Maradona walks like a big girl” on the side of Boca Juniors FC’s football stadium ;o)

]]> By: Mat http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2010/02/op-corporate-2-calm-down-please/#comment-1080 Mat Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:41:44 +0000 http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/?p=2337#comment-1080 Euan,couldn't agree more with every point you made. Throw some C RAM air defence guns into the mix for defending against the Argentines sneakily buying or building cruise missiles, and the Mount Pleasant airfield is pretty much untouchable - certainly, it couldn't be put out of action for long. Unless the Argentines get hold of atomic dirigibles at long last. Then, we can only pray. Euan,couldn’t agree more with every point you made. Throw some C RAM air defence guns into the mix for defending against the Argentines sneakily buying or building cruise missiles, and the Mount Pleasant airfield is pretty much untouchable – certainly, it couldn’t be put out of action for long.

Unless the Argentines get hold of atomic dirigibles at long last. Then, we can only pray.

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]]> By: Euan http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2010/02/op-corporate-2-calm-down-please/#comment-1059 Euan Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:55:52 +0000 http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/?p=2337#comment-1059 Hmmm! Yes I’ve been following the hysterics as well online it’s a long shot at best that anything will happen and if it does it will be Argentina harassing the Oil Companies or something like that I doubt there will be shooting. If they do like they might be getting up to something deploy a squadron of Eurofighters to the Islands alongside tankers and possibly AWACS as well as additional Rapier FSC units. Something I think should be done is improvements to Port Stanley airport to allow for the possibility of large aircraft using the strip in an emergency it would also be a good excuse to finally upgrade the port facilities in Stanley. I would mention the Royal Navy here but err! We still have a navy really that’s interesting I thought we had managed to sell most of it or leave it to rot tied up in mothballs. Hmmm! Yes I’ve been following the hysterics as well online it’s a long shot at best that anything will happen and if it does it will be Argentina harassing the Oil Companies or something like that I doubt there will be shooting. If they do like they might be getting up to something deploy a squadron of Eurofighters to the Islands alongside tankers and possibly AWACS as well as additional Rapier FSC units. Something I think should be done is improvements to Port Stanley airport to allow for the possibility of large aircraft using the strip in an emergency it would also be a good excuse to finally upgrade the port facilities in Stanley. I would mention the Royal Navy here but err! We still have a navy really that’s interesting I thought we had managed to sell most of it or leave it to rot tied up in mothballs.

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