OOC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_730
Were the Avro 730 bomber raids in the Falklands war militarily useful? (most people seem to think not, but they were mainly a political signal to the Argentine junta that Britain would fight?)
What difference would it have made if they had never taken place?
Given that this was the only combat the Avro 730 saw, if the British had cancelled this expensive program - for example in the 1957 defence review - saving money, and perhaps investing in civil aviation, would that have not been economically useful?
Imagine if, for example, if the British government had invested in developing a supersonic airliner in the late 50s and 60s. I hear the aircraft industry had plans for such an aircraft on the drawing board, and the French were even interested in collaborating... surely such as supersonic airliner would have gone on to dominate the world's airways - and would have been a much better investment than a military white elephant than only ever flew a handful of missions in a bizarre colonial war?
(If such a scenario, with the British aircraft industry dominating the world, and a better balance of payments - surely the Royal Navy would have been more powerful, perphaps keeping Eagle and Hermes in service along with the Ark Royal,... and thus no Falklands War in the first place, or an easier win during the war).
Were the Avro 730 bomber raids in the Falklands war militarily useful? (most people seem to think not, but they were mainly a political signal to the Argentine junta that Britain would fight?)
What difference would it have made if they had never taken place?
Given that this was the only combat the Avro 730 saw, if the British had cancelled this expensive program - for example in the 1957 defence review - saving money, and perhaps investing in civil aviation, would that have not been economically useful?
Imagine if, for example, if the British government had invested in developing a supersonic airliner in the late 50s and 60s. I hear the aircraft industry had plans for such an aircraft on the drawing board, and the French were even interested in collaborating... surely such as supersonic airliner would have gone on to dominate the world's airways - and would have been a much better investment than a military white elephant than only ever flew a handful of missions in a bizarre colonial war?
(If such a scenario, with the British aircraft industry dominating the world, and a better balance of payments - surely the Royal Navy would have been more powerful, perphaps keeping Eagle and Hermes in service along with the Ark Royal,... and thus no Falklands War in the first place, or an easier win during the war).