PartTimer said:
WhizzbangDai said:
Sgt, now be fair they did stop selling them once it was apparent they'd actually be used in anger. And we aren't exactly blameless, the Argies used British 500Ibs bombs against us. Which, I think you'll agree is even worse
Also Type 42s. They tested against them to find the limitations of its radar which helped them sink 2 of ours.
Yep.
Another of RumRation's myths which can't be fixed by facts; the French were bastards for selling the Argentines Exocet. We'd never do a thing like that.
So the fact that this thread (if the interweb had been around in the early 1980s) could be titled Argentina buys BRITISH warship is particularly ironic.
To be filed with the other cracking RR myth - also Falklands related.
"The Conservatives are the party of the Navy. Margaret Thatcher loved the Service."
Despite the fact that she tried to destroy the Navy in the 1981 Defence Review as part of her ridiculous defence cost-cutting exercise; an event which in itself helped give the Argentinians confidence to invade the islands, and thus indirectly cost the lives of a number of service personnel.