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which vary at times from these numbers, in Wood and Hewish, “The Falklands
Conflict, pt.1,” 980; Moore, “The Falklands War,” 21; Cordesman, “The
Falklands,” 32; and Guilmartin, “The South Atlantic,” 17.
36. Briasco and Huertas, Falklands, 165–68, 173; Ethell and Price, Air
War South Atlantic, 207; and Rodney Burden et al., Falklands: The Air War
(London: Arms and Armour, 1986), 33–147.
37. Derek Wood and Mark Hewish, “The Falklands Conflict, pt. 2: Missile
Operations,” International Defense Review, September 1982, 1151, 1154;
Moore, “The Falklands War,” 20; Christopher Foss, “European Tactical Missile
Systems,” Armor, July–August 1975, 24; Ethell and Price, Air War South Atlantic,
196–209; Briasco and Huertas, Falklands, 165–69; and Terry Gander,
“Maintaining the Effectiveness of Blowpipe SAM,” Jane’s Defence Review, 4,
no. 2 (1983): 159.
38. Some accounts claim that Rapier’s radar interfered with the Royal
Navy’s radar. After all, the British army did not expect to fight alongside destroyers
on the plains of central Europe! Others state that the British sent
the army unit to the Falklands without radar, in contrast to the Royal Air
Force regiment that arrived later with Rapier and radar. Whatever the case,
the initial unit that went ashore in the campaign, and the only one that saw
action, fired optically guided missiles. See “UK Planned to Use Shrike Missiles
against Argentine Radars,” Aerospace Daily, 30 August 1982, 334; “Air
Defense Missiles Limited Tactics of Argentine Aircraft,” Aviation Week, 19
July 1982, 21; Great Britain, Ministry of Defence, Falklands Campaign, 22;
Wood and Hewish, “The Falklands Conflict, pt. 2,” 1153; Moore, “The Falklands
War,” 19; and Price, Air War South Atlantic, 196–208; Briasco and
Huertas, Falklands, 165–69; and Jacques du Boucher, “Missiles in the Falklands,”
African Defence, October 1983, 60.
39. John Laffin, Fight for the Falklands (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982),
92–93; Ministry of Defence, Falklands Campaign, 9, annex B; Wood and
Hewish, “The Falklands Conflict, pt. 2,” 1151, 1154; Ethell and Price, Air
War South Atlantic, 196–208; and Briasco and Huertas, Falklands, 165–69.
40. Cordesman, “The Falklands,” 38; Ministry of Defence, Falklands Campaign,
annex B; Insight Team, War in the Falklands, 216; Ethell and Price,
Air War South Atlantic, 196–208; Briasco and Huertas, Falklands, 165–69;
Roger Villar, “The Sea Wolf Story-GW S25 to VM40,” Jane’s Defence Review
2, no. 1 (1981): 75.
41. Cordesman and Wagner, Afghan and Falklands Conflicts, 337–38, 351.
42. Cordesman, “The Falklands,” 34; Alistair Horne, “A British Historian’s
Meditations: Lessons of the Falklands,” National Review, 23 July 1982, 888.
43. Anthony Cordesman and Abraham Wagner, The Lessons of Modern
War, vol. 2, The Iran-Iraq War (Boulder: Westview, 1990), 460–62; Anthony
Cordesman, “Lessons of the Iran-Iraq War: pt. II, Tactics, Technology, and
Training,” Armed Forces Journal International, June 1982, 70, 78–79; “The
Iranian Air Force at War,” Born in Battle, no. 24, 13; “The Iraq-Iran War,” Defence
Update, no. 44 (1984): 43–44; and Nordeen, Air Warfare, 185–88.
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