The guns have a range of about 18km, that's enough to cover Stanley and the ground between the hills and the town. As for the Type-42, I'm thinking about the Sea Dart battery, which would disrupt British air attacks on the area.
1. Myopic means minimum range where the guns cannot engage.
I honestly don't know, but if the airstrip was able to handle C-130s, shouldn't it be able to handle Mirages, had it been extended?
Not quite equal I believe. The landing of a hot Mirage into a long rolling stop is a lot different from a C-130 which was designed for short landings and rough field operations.
I know. I meant a larger toll.
Based on Barry's commentary about the operations at St. Georges, the SAS were utterly insane, his ship was playing blind fools tag with a Balao Guppy and the whole affair smelt more of Gilbert and Sullivan than proper operations as any professional navy would understand it. It is a miracle weather did not wipe out those SAS fellows for example.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that. I was talking to the presence of a small detachment of Argentine soldiers covering the place were the British disembarked. IOTL, they've fired flares, which didn't work, to illuminate the disembarking troops, fired blindly with recoilless 105 guns until they were eventually forced to retreat. My scenario involves the flares working, so the gun crews can see their targets and aim properly. Two 105mm guns won't stop the disembark, but they can cause casualties.
Atlantic Conveyor when she went down took down 5 of 6 Chinooks, some spare Harriers, and a host of spare parts and some kind of Royal Marines tracked vehicles that resemble a commercial snow cat crawler. The debacle meant British infantry walked to Stanley instead of flew or rolled thus prolonging the campaign by two weeks. However one Chinook was aloft doing something when Atlantic Conveyor was exocetted. So the British did have the means of moving a VERTEN platoon behind any Argentians who tried to set up the defense you described. So, the capability to wipe the defenders out by vertical envelopment existed. It was not used because it proved unnecessary. The Chinook therefore could be used for more vital logistics lifts at sea and was so used, which in itself probably saved the air campaign and again with supply dumping forward as the British infantry humped along helped the British ground effort at key moments. It, however, was only 1 Chinook and it was overworked to death. Boeing built a fine bird.
The SST-4 torpedoes the Argentine Navy was using weren't working. The navy knew that, but didn't manage to fix them until after the war.
To be honest, I think the Argentine submarine crews were not versed on the idiosyncrasies of the SST-4 and mis-wired the telemetry leads.
They probably did not know what they did wrong. The torpedoes should have worked.
The Sea Dart battery in either Type-42 destroyer would hamper the Harriers if they try to engage Argentine fighters within SAM range. Better trained troops should also mean the Air Force is putting the guys who pinpoint targets to attack aircraft were they should. The British would still be able to carry out more sorties, but it should also open up for more precise sorties by the Argentine Air Force, both by fighters deployed in the mainland and those surviving fighters deployed in the islands.
Sea Dart is like an early STANDARD of the same era. SARH missile; Myopic illuminator range from ship radar illuminator to missile (Let's just say that the 6 Sea Darts the Invincible fired at the Etendard that exoceted the Atlantic Conveyor suffered lock off due to this condition.) limited it's effects at lows altitude. Estimated NEZ at medium to high altitude ~ 20,000 ===> 40,000 meters slant range 20 degree ascending slope. Lo=lo=lo pop up lob should kill any Type 42. It will take pilots with nerves of steel and courage of the type one associates with both the Argentine and British air forces. But the Type 42 dies.
Tactics can fox the SAM missile if the attacker knows the exploits. Viffing alone might suffice.