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Operation Black Buck was ineffectual, the damage to the runway and radar installations was minimal and quickly repaired. If the operation had failed (it wasn't really a ripping success as it was) then nothing much different would have happened. It did not result in the Argentines withdrawing their aircraft from the conflict to defend the mainland (that was propaganda). The war in the air was won not as the result of putting Port Stanley's tiny airfield out of action (because it was never put out of action), but was because the Argentinian fleet played no part in the conflict after the loss of the ARA Belgrano - they went home and took their aircraft carriers with them. I'm not sure quite what the SAS has to do wth this they attacked a different airstrip on Pebble Island, not Port Stanley Airport 100 miles away. In the time that they were supposed to have needed to secure the airfield they never secured, the Argentinian engineers had time to repair the runway, install steel reinforcement to the stand areas and fit arrestor gear into the runway - in that time they could have made the runway capable of taking fast jets - since they chose not to it is evident they only wanted the airport for Hercules transports and Pucarás.

 

If we really wanted to attack installations on the mainland we have nuclear subs fitted witn ICBMs - we didn't keep those a secret.

 

What the military junta were not expecting us to do was fight-back - that we would stage such an operation showed that we would - that's what changed their attitude - not that we could (that was never in doubt) but that we would (and did).

 

Nine hundred and seven Argentine and British people lost their lives in two months, one week and five days. Countless more have died since then as a result of the trauma they experienced during the conflict.

 

War is a stupid waste of life.

 

Vibrationbaby wrote: I have to step out but this Goldilox thing is not over.

Goldilocks. In the original story of the Three Bears they were three bachelor bears sharing the same house and not a cosy little nuclear family of the modern fairy tale. Goldilocks wasn't in the original story either.

Edited by Dean - July 05 2013 at 20:12

When armed insurgents attack the military (as was the original premise in Nigeria) , its an armed revolt ! But the idea is to ratchet up the horror by attacking civilians instead of going after the military. 

Nowhere does it state in the Koran that innocent children shall be killed in the name of God! 

So why does this group fear attacking the military? Cowardice and hypocrisy , as usual the 2 greatest human weaknesses.

 

While these Fast Radio Bursts have been known about for 6 years and studdied for 4, the data all comes from one radio telescope - I would expect that confirmation and corroboration would be needed before we get too excited.

 

Deep space objects and phenomena are not only a long way away, what we see of them now occured a long time in the past. These Fast Radio Burst are estimated to be 6-11 billion light-years distant, which means whatever created them happened 6-11 billion years ago - before the Solar System existed and while the Milky Way was forming and then grouping into our local supercluster (of some 54 galaxies). Also, since the Universe is expanding and the speed with which objects are "expanding" away form each other is proportional to their distance apart it means that really distant objects (ie over 9 billion light-years apart) are expanding away from each other faster than the speed of light... [the expanding Universe has a tendancy to "do your head in" if you think about it too much, neither object is travelling faster than light]. Since whatever caused these FRBs are very distant, and the space between us and them is expanding at a light speed or there abouts (assuming they stil exist) ity may be more accurate to say "They're going"