Fartsniffage wrote:Valaran wrote:Its more ,to use an article from earlier, the Argentine airforce as a whole
is a long long way behind and so are the rest of their forces - something 24 modern planes won't change.
And even if they did improve, I don't see their economy sustaining the levels of military spending required to make their power even close to the UK.
Right now, the UK has virtually no ability to conduct a war on the Falklands. We have no aircraft carriers. We can have all the fancy ariplanes buzzing around the UK and other bases around the world that we want, but we couldn't launch an expedition like the one that was sent in '82 if we tried.
Put simply, the Argentinians could probably take the Falklands right now with 24 Grippens. And there wouldn't be much we could do about it for 4-6 years.
The deal would take time anyway. Not 4-6 years, of course, but it would be quite obvious were it to happen, affording time to prepare. And the Argentinean logistics/support/anything else in their airforce is so far behind that I'm not sure they could really gain much of an air superiority.
And any form of aerial stalemate would arguably suit the UK more; they have better naval, drone, missile and ground forces.
Their economy would also tank even further if war was declared.
They may potentially win it - thought I hihgly doubt it. But they wouldn't risk it.