On April 2, 1982 Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands, followed by the invasion of South Georgia the next day. On 5 April, the British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force before making an amphibious assault on the islands. The conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June, returning the islands to British control.
While there were many reasons for Argentina's defeat one of the main reasons provided by many experts was Argentinian military's reliance on France and their betrayal of the Argentinians in favor of the British:
French president François Mitterrand gave full support to the UK in the Falklands war. As a large part of Argentina's military equipment was French-made, French support was crucial. France provided aircraft, identical to the ones it supplied to Argentina, for British pilots to train against. France provided intelligence to help sabotage the Exocet missiles it sold to Argentina. In her memoirs, Margaret Thatcher remarked of Mitterrand that "I never forgot the debt we owed him for his personal support … throughout the Falklands Crisis." Sir John Nott, who was UK Secretary of State for Defense during the conflict later acknowledged: "In so many ways Mitterrand and the French were our greatest allies." https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Falklands_War
The conflict against Iran is an entirely different challenge for the "great" British Royal Navy given Iranian military, both in defense and offense, is almost completely independent of any possible betraying foreign power and that's not to mention Iran's extensive, lethal and cutting edge anti-ship missiles:
In 2014, Iran also unveiled a a faster (Mach 4) anti-radiation variant of the Khalij Fars called the Hormuz-1 and -2 designed to home-in on land- and sea-based radars respectively—possibly the world’s first anti-radiation ballistic missiles. An anti-radiation missile turns a warship’s greatest defensive advantage—it’s powerful radars—into a vulnerability by homing in on it for guidance. A ship can de-activate its radar to break the lock, but then leave itself exposed to other threats.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/b...rans-missiles-they-could-strike-us-navy-57832
While the British navy or indeed any a coalition of foreign navies may be able to overwhelm, destroy and sink Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf their defenses will still be dwarfed and pale compared to Iran's nearly 1500 mile coastal line and offensive power nearly 400 miles deep which essentially turns Iran into a stationary yet unsinkable and un-destroyable destroyer compared to the vulnerable and sinkable vessels floating in the waters of Persian Gulf. While an aircraft carrier and its fleet may seem like a giant compared to even the largest Iranian vessel, compared to the Iranian coastline and its fire power it is merely an unimpressive midget.
While there were many reasons for Argentina's defeat one of the main reasons provided by many experts was Argentinian military's reliance on France and their betrayal of the Argentinians in favor of the British:
French president François Mitterrand gave full support to the UK in the Falklands war. As a large part of Argentina's military equipment was French-made, French support was crucial. France provided aircraft, identical to the ones it supplied to Argentina, for British pilots to train against. France provided intelligence to help sabotage the Exocet missiles it sold to Argentina. In her memoirs, Margaret Thatcher remarked of Mitterrand that "I never forgot the debt we owed him for his personal support … throughout the Falklands Crisis." Sir John Nott, who was UK Secretary of State for Defense during the conflict later acknowledged: "In so many ways Mitterrand and the French were our greatest allies." https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Falklands_War
The conflict against Iran is an entirely different challenge for the "great" British Royal Navy given Iranian military, both in defense and offense, is almost completely independent of any possible betraying foreign power and that's not to mention Iran's extensive, lethal and cutting edge anti-ship missiles:
In 2014, Iran also unveiled a a faster (Mach 4) anti-radiation variant of the Khalij Fars called the Hormuz-1 and -2 designed to home-in on land- and sea-based radars respectively—possibly the world’s first anti-radiation ballistic missiles. An anti-radiation missile turns a warship’s greatest defensive advantage—it’s powerful radars—into a vulnerability by homing in on it for guidance. A ship can de-activate its radar to break the lock, but then leave itself exposed to other threats.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/b...rans-missiles-they-could-strike-us-navy-57832
While the British navy or indeed any a coalition of foreign navies may be able to overwhelm, destroy and sink Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf their defenses will still be dwarfed and pale compared to Iran's nearly 1500 mile coastal line and offensive power nearly 400 miles deep which essentially turns Iran into a stationary yet unsinkable and un-destroyable destroyer compared to the vulnerable and sinkable vessels floating in the waters of Persian Gulf. While an aircraft carrier and its fleet may seem like a giant compared to even the largest Iranian vessel, compared to the Iranian coastline and its fire power it is merely an unimpressive midget.
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