Falklands Question

Makes you wonder how they'd do with one of the better maintained Colossus/Majestic class ships, such as Melbourne or Vikrant.

Here's an ATL suggestion. Argentina buys HMCS Bonaventure in 1970 after her extensive 1966-1968 refit?

Or Centaur. She was decommissioned in 1965, but not scrapped until 1972. On paper she's 4 knots faster and had 2 steam catapults rather than one which were powerful enough to launch Sea Vixens. Furthermore her hangar is 10 feet wider (52 to 62 feet), which is important because a Skyhawk and folded Tracker have wingspans of about 28 feet, therefore a Centaur class ship can carry and operate twice as many of them.

Or Hermes. The British Government would sell her along with the 2 Type 42s if the Argentines offered enough money. In the real world Hermes was converted into a commando carrier 1971-73 and replaced Albion, which ITTL would be run on first as a commando carrier and then as an ASW carrier until the early 1980s.
 
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