while it is true Argentine never tried to buy Soviet equipment, the lack of a real anti aircraft carrier bomber like a Tu-22 or Tu-22M doomed things for argentina so my argument that argentina never was really willing to win the war is accurate, they thought diplomacy would at the end prevail abd Englad would had needed to negociate a compromise.

Also saturating the british defences was possible by sending large numbers of aircraft to hit the aircraft carrier

I honestly don’t understand why you think lack of a large Russian naval strike platform like the Tu22M doomed operations for Argentina. What your saying is Argentina wasn’t prepared to win because it wasn’t prepared to go to Russia and purchase a particular type of Aircraft…..

WHAT UTTER HOGWASH!!!! That your posting the idea shows how little you know…I think our Argentine posters on this board would be disgusted with such TOTAL TRIPE!

It was never on their procurement radar in the first place!!!!!!! End of story!

What doomed it for Argentina is a combination of factors:

Attacking too early! This allowed the UK to send a task force and conduct operations before the South Atlantic Winter.

Again Attacking too early meaning equipment from new ships to the War Winning Etendard Exocet combination were fully delivered.

Using their logistic resources to move lots of conscripts and their equipment onto the Island rather then move the tons of steel runway matting they had stored on the mainland which would of allowed them to stretch the Runway at Port Stanley allowing safe fast jet operations.

The idea that somehow they didn’t want to win due to not purchasing a Russian piece of equipment they were never interested in or even thinking about as you are suggesting is insulting to Argentina and the British Forces who went there to throw them out.

If you have read the reports of the falkland war by the british you will know they had weaknessess too, and Argentina failed to use them in their favour first, the British aircraft carrier was sinkable, it had no AEW aircraft; second the Harrier was not an F-14 but an AIM-9 armed aircraft so it was a dogfighter not an interceptor.

Would argentina had a Tu-22M they would had sunk the carrier and you know it is true since a Tu-22M was even able to sink a US nuclear powered aircraft carrier at the time.

The A-4 as an attacker was more of a ground attack aircraft and even by 1982 was obsolete, Israel knew it and they did not use A-4s without the top cover of F-15s and F-16s.

Argentina in 1982 could had purchased a couple of Tu-16s or Tu-22s and some air refuelling tankers prior to the invasion and that would had asure the conventional victory to Argentina, the peace i doubt they would had win it since Englad had nukes

Well a couple of Tu22’s might well of given the RN pause for thought but it wouldn’t of changed the outcome.

The profile of anti shipping operation the Tu22 is designed for is exactly what the Sea Dart is designed to engage. It would of been a far easier target then the low flying a4’s that it did have to engage.

Anyway Argentina has no tradition of buying Russian at that point and buying into what would of been a logistic nightmare supporting a large eastern type makes little sense when they had set their stall with the Etendard Exocet combination. It would also of really pissed off America at the height of the Cold War something that Argentina would NO WAY of done.

Are packard and Rolls Royce merlin parts interchangeable?

I think this has been answered elsewhere by better qualified people but as far as I know the answer is a qualified No.

The reason that I have put it in Italics is there are a few hybrid engines out there which are happily running on a mix of parts from Pakard and Rolls Royce. There are certainly quite a few non runners which are a mix of parts.

Turbofans would be an option, but would miss the mission spec point of choosing props in the first place. The only replacement engine/prop-combo inside five years or so would be the Progress D-27.

Probably too late to choose a new engine now, but probably the safest choice if it ever happened would be the PW180 which lost out to the Europrop engine.

… if You knlick on the Su-35 You get another menu with this !!

I won’t take it too serious … just the nice – but I think dated – CG from J. Gatial.

Deino

Well Well Well! That is an interesting find…

It certainly is consistent with what we are expecting for PAK-FA and its on the manufacturers web site. Has a promotional image been used early by accident.

I’m not entirely surprised about an HC4 upgrade program. The simple fact is the HC2 out in the field are getting hammered to pieces. They are going to need a tear down overhaul at some point and if you are going to do that you might as well take the chance to shove in some new avionics.