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This is taken from Fight for the Falklands, by John Laffin.

About a month before the invasion Argentina asked the Defence Ministry if it could buy the delta-wing Vulcans, which were to be phased out of the R.A.F by the end of 1982 and replaced by Tornado swing-wing aircraft. Possession of the Vulcans would have made Argentina the only South American nation to own a strategic bomber force. In a war with Britain, it could have dropped conventional bombs on the Falklands, South Georgia and even, with in-flight refuelling, on Ascension Island. The Ministry did not follow up the offer but there is no evidence to show that it reported the matter to the Foreign Office.
I thought some of you might want to ponder that.

How do you think the war would've been prosecuted had the Argentines had say...2 or 3 Vulcans in their air force, and the British were without a strategic bomber force?
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