[sinsofsolarempirefan]

The Falklands are too well protected for the Argentinians to take them this time around. The last time, they faced a garrison of about 20 Royal Marines with light arms, now they would be facing 4 Eurofighters, artillery, AAA, naval support, and about 500 troops, probably battle-hardened from tours in Afghanistan, (with many more that could be airlifted in at short notice if tensions were to rise)...

[tanknetter]

The Falklands are too well protected for the Argentinians to take them this time around. The last time, they faced a garrison of about 20 Royal Marines with light arms, now they would be facing 4 Eurofighters, artillery, AAA, naval support, and about 500 troops, probably battle-hardened from tours in Afghanistan, (with many more that could be airlifted in at short notice if tensions were to rise)...

The Argies would also need to worry about the RN SSN force showing up and dropping Tomahawk cruise missiles onto mainland targets. Less risky and a LOT more effective than what was done during the Falklands War (the Vulcan Black Buck missions were somewhat intended to show that the Brits had the ability to attack Argentina proper.)

[rmlew]

4 Typhoons? The ARgentine Airforce has 61 combate jets. At most, a Typhoon has what, 10 missile points, 8 or which are for AMRAAMS or Meteors. At best, assuming no evasion or successful use of countermeasure, that leaves only 29 jets against 4 Typhoons, each with 2 ASRAAMs. And that's assuming that no Typhoon is hit by any of the Mirage IIIs and their R.530.
When the British put 12, or better 24 Typhoons, they'll have a credible defense.