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This is the article I believe.

Indeed. Unloading transports, especially without containers, took a long time back then, doubly so without ports.

I was more thinking of "At least the unloading will be easy - the cargo's already on the strip!"

For a certain definition of "landing", I guess.

Well, as far as I know, the Soviet plan was to hit the NATO HQ in Brussels with a chemical attack as soon as war broke out, so this would have been a non-starter.

Why the hell would they assign such a mission to a carrier force, and not to a couple dozen nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles?

In other words, the Argentine will now waste their air force as well. Phantoms and Sea Harriers together are a much more effective CAP than Sea Harriers alone.

The pilot attrition probably not, but ship movements might be known thanks to the code breakers.

Won't the RN be able to use the public opinion to force the treasury to finance a new CVN?

The USN will likely be jealous - they didn't get to sink an aircraft carrier, much less two task forces, since WW2. :P

That's it for the Argentinian Navy. That leaves the Air Force. But by the time the Junta has been notified of the debacle, has ordered the Air Force to strike, and the Air Force has managed to both get a strike ready and get a fix on the RN's task force's position, the strike that sunk the...

I wonder why the railroads in Europe haven't suffered the same fate.

According to the German Wiki, the Meko frigates were put on hold during the war and all the British material was sent back to Rolls-Royce and the Rolls-Royce technicians stopped working and took all documentation back. After the war ended, the technicians returned and the frigates (Jane's and...

And they don't know where the RB submarines are. The carrier acting as bait might simply get dealt with by a submarine.

That's not an aircraft carrier. That's a target.

To be honest, I'll take a gloating article in the Sun over some fucked up "we shouldn't have killed so many poor Argentinians" drivel from some moron any day of the week. Argentinia started this war, and no one forced them to try and attack the Royal Navy, and every Argentine ship sunk, every...

Gotcha!

Great post! Also, I think the captain of the Belgrano said in an interview a decade or two later that the Belgrano was preparing to enter the zone, just temporarily zigzagging away.

Fooey on the diplomatic consequences - sink as many Argentinian ships as possible, to deter anyone from repeating their mistake. They bloody started this war, they don't get to whine about losing ships and men.

I think the subs will have their day here - they're already tracking them, after all.