Recent content by Mike D

1st RPIMa for the army, Commandos Marine for the navy and CPA10 for the air force. I think they'd all theoretically have the capability to do the job.

Au contraire mon frere, they'll just have a funny accent. 1st RPIMa is a direct descendant from the Free French SAS Squadron.

True, but surely that holds for any aircraft type? They managed to operate from the islands in our world (albeit mostly Pucaras and MB-339s rather than true fast jets) so they obviously understood how to move aircraft to an airfield away from their home field and operate them.

As far as I'm aware the RAF didn't have to do anything to the aircraft to use them from improvised fields so, as long as there's enough fuel, consumables and weapons flown into Stanley, there shouldn't be anything stopping them from using the airfield. It's not Heathrow but it's a proper airport...

They'd have worked much better than any of the existing Argentine fast jets - the RAF regularly practised working from unprepared locations with the Harrier force in Germany so even a basic airfield should be enough to keep them working until the SAS visit.

Only as the ranging gun on tanks originally. It was the L1 as a stand-alone weapon until fairly recently. (image taken from an archived page from the Army's website).

That's just military designations L1A1 7.62mm Self Loading Rifle (SLR) (Also referred to as the L1A1 7.62mm Rifle)[4][31][3][32][33][27][30] L1A1-A4 Bayonet (For use with the SLR)[3][1] L1A1/A2 Blank Firing Attachment (For use with the SLR)[31] L1A1/A2 .50 inch Machine Gun (Also referred to as...

Amateur hour. The UK has 37 different items with the designation L1.

If you've put smoke in front of the bunker you don't even need Sappers really - if you can get a couple of lads to the bunker unseen they can throw a couple of grenades through the firing slits. A couple of explosive/fragmentation will take care of the immediate threat and a smoke/phos might...

My Granddad was one of the first ashore on Sword Beach and went all the way through to Bremen. According to my Dad the only thing he ever said about the war was once when my Dad was a teenager and squared up to him after some argument. He just looked at my Dad, said "I've killed better men than...

I think she was still current wife at the time, but yeah, the Major was his father-in-law.

Jeremy Clarkson did an outstanding VC documentary centred on the mad Major.

They do but a mortar bomb is in the air for a fair while, they're not pinpoint accurate and they're aiming at a moving target. Until we get the guided rounds like Merlin being developed in the 1980s, hitting a moving tank first time with a mortar (or even a stationary one) would be almost a...

Without guided bombs you'd need to be a hell of a shot to hit the top of a moving tank with a mortar!

From memory, Admiral Sir Henry Leach (1st Sea Lord during the Falklands Conflict who essentially told Maggie to man up and understand that the RN's ships were there to go to war) remembered his father (Captain John Leach, Prince of Wales) as melancholy about his chances of survival on their last...