I don’t think Lynx could carry those loads….

I have heard Puma somewhere (can’t remember and don’t believe)

I personally see Merlin but we will see

Three Chinese ships in disputed island waters: Japan

I would really like to see Lyneham come back, I mean I would personally leave Brize to the tanker fleet and move the Hercs, A400M and C-17’s. I mean it was the Southern diversionary airfield and multiple runways make it better for the task than Brize xD

I had a book with a chapter about the beer carrying, I will see if I can dig it out. I think it was only for officers IRRC

What I meant was that to the the Voyagers their “own” Typhoons would naturally serve as deterrence for Argentinian long range fighters where lone C-17s would never have such level of “natural” air defense. 🙂 So the realities of both types of flights are significantly different requiring a totally different planning logic.

Forgive me Nick for thinking that your above reasoning seems rather “simplistic”… Jet fuel for once will be a very rare commodity over there, ,how large are The Falkland’s air base reserves for fuel and how long would they last once the full complement of Typhoons starts flying heavily? After that this initial fuel will have to be replaced by ship from the UK How long would it take to do so? Wouldn’t these fuel tank farms be natural first day of war targets for hypothetical Argentinian Special Forces? Much more than the local fighter planes themselves…

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Hammer

Yes you would need more tankers but if we used that link as a rule of thumb you can do the maths.

I would have thought that the C-17’s would have been in the same packages as the Tiffies so that would be their protection.

I can assure you that we would have enough fuel down there for a fair period. I don’t think that any Arg special forces would be able to take the farms as they are probably within the defended perimeter and there are bound to be motion detectors etc.

I really don’t think that Argentina would be able to take the Falklands before we would be able to step up the defenses to a good enough standard….

Regards

Nick

Does anyone else think that Army projects are under represented, like ASCOD SV/FRES????

The Argentinian’s screwed up their chances of getting anything with a British designed component in 1982. I can’t see them getting anything in British technology until they have a government that gives up their claim on the Falklands and signs a legally binding treaty with the UK giving up their claim.

But then again I would bet 1435 would take any Mirage aircraft and therefore would sleep fine if they got any 😉

The actual airgroup is 40 PLUS, so forty is a normal load but a surge capability is there. What needs to be remembered is that these aren’t fleet carriers like the USNs carriers, they are attack carriers (CVA)