Blackbuck missions with GPS guidance and targeting

What (if any) impact would the RAF having access to GPS guidance and targeting during the Falklands War have had?
 
What the Brits needed was not GPS for their Air Force, they needed more common sense than to send more than 250 men to their deaths over a tiny dot in the middle of nowhere.
 
What the Brits needed was not GPS for their Air Force, they needed more common sense than to send more than 250 men to their deaths over a tiny dot in the middle of nowhere.



Oh I forgot British lives are worth nothing now!

With the Falkland Islanders been British those men died bravely liberating their people from a military dictatorship. I don't want to turn this thread into Falklands Argentine? Or British? However those Sailors, airmen and troops died for those peoples right to choose their own government not at the barrel of a rifle. As of today they are still proudly British that’s why those men died.

Onto the question GPS would have major effect if it were somehow speeded up. Greater co-ordination between forces and possibly a far larger amount of damage to the Port Stanley Airfield then in OTL. The real question is what if the Argentines also had it?


Edit: Whoops I missed the "Operation Black Buck part" The Vulcan raids if having GPS guidance and smart bombs, which can nearly always hit would severely limit Argentine movement on the Island. More successful missions and more casualties with a soundly destroyed Stanley Airport and major attacks on troop positions before ground forces arrival would be the result I imagine. However I am sure others on the forum know more about the Air war over the Falklands then I.
 
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GPS didn't achieve IOC until 1993. I believe there was only one satellite in orbit at the time of the Falklands War.
 
War ends quicker, less casualties on both sides and Argetina kicks out the military junta that decided to waste its soldiers lives on a nice nationalist propoganda excercise so that the commoners wouldn't notice the failed economy and systematic torturing of members of the opposition.
 
The RAF claims sole credit for winning the war at the expense of RN and Army (which they tried in real life. Just read Sharkey Ward's book ;))
 
Aircraft navigation prior to 1993 is something I don't know much about but it seams resonable to assume they got at least decent navigation systems.
 

possibly a far larger amount of damage to the Port Stanley Airfield then in OTL. The real question is what if the Argentines also had it?


I dont think we'd do too much damage to the airfield, after all, we are going to need it afterwards, but plane and other equipment 'plinking' in the same way the Allies went tank 'plinking' in the Gulf War may be a possibility with GPS guided bombs, plus a more accurate laydown of bombs on the runway.

If the Argentines also had it, I wonder if it would be possible to shut the satellites down over the area (not all that much civilian traffic to worry about) and for them to become active coincidently when the UK was making an attack....
 
Navigation wasn't a problem, a mix of Loran, Omega and on board systems got them to Pt Stanley no worries.

As for targeting, if GPS guidence did exist they could have put all 21 bombs right onto the runway. That would be nice.
 
Aircraft navigation prior to 1993 is something I don't know much about but it seams resonable to assume they got at least decent navigation systems.
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From what i,ve read, they had the bog standard Vulcan systems augmented what what available at the time.
 
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