30 years ago: the Falkand War

[Kongo Otto]

Originally Posted by mapuc

This thread makes me remember some scenarios in Fleet Command

In one of them the maker wrote this

"What would have been if Argentine cruiser General Belgrano had not been sunk by HMS Conqueror on 2nd May 1982 and Argentine Navy had chosen a battle rather then withrawal from the sea ? On 1st May 1982 they had three Task Groups on the sea composed of 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 4 destroyers, 3 frigates and 1 conventional submarine against Royal Navy's 2 carriers, 4 destroyers 5 frigates and 3 SSN. Argentine Navy had more Exocet missiles on board their ships than the British Task Group at that time.

One thing is to play on of these two scenarios(England or Argentina) an another thing is the real life. But it made me think, what if....

Markus

Originally Posted by jimbuna

IMHO the Argentinians would have been at risk from the SSNs and possibly have suffered a similar fate as that of the Belgrano.

Jim most possibly the SSN's would have taken them on before they could reach the RN Task Force with an horrible outcome for the Argentinians.
But i that would happen maybe this conflict would have escalated in to a full scale war.

[mapuc]

I see that you put alot of faith in the SSN.

I don't know if that's a good thing to have!?

Those time I play one of those scenario I mostly kill most of the RN's subs.

But I'm just an average person that doesn't have much knowledge about
naval-warfare- strategy

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Kongo Otto

Jim most possibly the SSN's would have taken them on before they could reach the RN Task Force with an horrible outcome for the Argentinians.
But i that would happen maybe this conflict would have escalated in to a full scale war.

One sided then IMHO...we had the means and capability to attack their mainland but they have never had the means to reciprocate.