[the scotsman]

The UK only has a small amount of Tomahawks (less than 100). The mainstay of UK missile strikes is the Storm Shadow, the Anglo-Italian-French missile, we have 900 of those.

Admittedly For the RAF, but they can easily be used by the RN, as they are built to be adaptable to air or sea.

[tanknetter]

The UK only has a small amount of Tomahawks (less than 100)

Their inventory is probably set to match the space available on their SSNs. I'd imagine that they have agreements in place with the US to acquire additional examples, either from existing US stocks or direct purchase from the manufacturer. This latter could include FMS pre-clearance, making it harder for the Anglophobic Obama Administration to block the sale.

The question I have is: how many Tomahawks would it take to drop the Buenos Aires power grid and then conduct follow-on strikes to keep it down? Assuming that the Brits bought some of those nifty carbon-fiber filament warheads designed to crash powergrids by shorting them out, you could have a nice one-two punch. The first punch drops the grid in a fairly non-damaging way to show that the UK can, with the threat of an HE follow-up that will do more lasting and expensive damage should the Argentinian regime fail to see the error of its ways.

Keep in mind that while the immediate goal of the Black Buck Raids were to cut the runway at Stanley and to conduct SEAD (using Shrikes), there was a larger psychological goal of demonstrating to the Argentinian's that the RAF COULD reach out and touch them, on the mainland, if Maggie Thatcher decided to.