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Argentina: we will retake Las Malvinas!
Royal Navy: Oh really? Try it. We'd really like a chance to demonstrate the combat effectiveness of our QE2 Class Carriers. And Bob here hasn't shot his destroyer's deck guns since '82 and he's bored!
RAF: (Rapidly dusting off the Vulcans and Nimrods)
Royal Marines: (Lights up a Benson & Hedges cigarette)... Right... (Slaps knees and stands up)... Grab yer Bergens and Bayonets lads!
I really hope Argentina doesn't hand the UK's faltering Conservative government a nice patriotic war just before the next election. If they hadn't done that in 1982 we might have seen the back of Thatcher before the worst damage was done.
I mean, the Brits might be chomping at the bit for it. I mean with Brexit and all, I'm pretty sure it's been greyer than usual in the UK. Nothing like completely mopping up some country trying to invade your land to put on a slightly brighter disposition.
That said, I think Milei has mostly been talking about attempting to get them back diplomatically. Which I'm highly doubtful anyone remotely responsible for making that kind of decision in the UK is vaguely affable towards entertaining. Just a hunch.
@ThePyroPython @thehatfox The Vulcans were not useful the first time, and they have been scrapped for a very long time.
There are Eurofighter Typhoons based there, with plenty more able to get there in hours (the Typhoon has Mach 1.5 supercruise and a long ferry range, just take off a tanker from Mount Pleasant to meet them with more fuel en route).
Given the Typhoons can carry bombs as well as being air superiority fighters, the RAF would not need to dust off anything.
I'm aware the Vulcans have been scrapped, I was just memeing.
I saw the Vulcan's last flight as Cosford Airshow about 10 years ago. The sheer size of that aircraft flying overhead at under 100ft, the rumble and roar of the engines will stay with me for a lifetime. It was an awesome aircraft.
@ThePyroPython I got to look inside one as an RAF cadet in the 90s. They were surprisingly cramped for such a big plane.
Oh you lucky sod. The only old plane I got to look inside was the Lancaster based at RAF Scampton they use for memorial flights, still a another good aircraft but it's no Vulcan.
Also, good to meet a fellow former ATC Cadet in the wilds of the internet.
@ThePyroPython CCF it was. Got to go to RAF Laarbruch just after Gulf 1 too. The tornadoes were still in desert camo and one had bullet holes in the tail!
OK, so maybe you can explain this, many things all over western Canada are naned for "Mount Pleasant", a cemetery in Swift Current, a neighborhood in Vancouver, it pops up all over, and no one seems to know why, what or anything about the term, from old timers to Google.
@Sagifurius I cannot explain that. I don’t know why Mount Pleasant in the Falklands, being a cold rainy dull rock with sheep is so named. Perhaps it’s ironic.
Plural? Huh, TIL they've got more than one of them.
(I always found it kind of crazy and hilarious that the US has like 10 CATOBAR nuclear-powered carriers and then also a bunch of STOVL diesel-powered ones that we don't even bother counting as "carriers," when every other country has maybe one or a few at best, and most of those are STOVL or worse. I guess the last time I counted was before 2017, though.)
During world War II, the United States had over 150 aircraft carriers which would be the equivalent of a wasp class amphibious assault ship/helicopter carrier.