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Argentina reacted to the challenge with skill and daring. Brigadier General Lami Dozo ordered as many as 72 warplanes at a time into the air, everything from Pucará attack planes to Mirage III and Dagger fighter-bombers and A-4 Skyhawk bombers. The aircraft swooped down on the San Carlos inlet from the west and from the south, their pilots showing little regard for safety as they tried to get at the fleet. In groups of up to three at a time, they raced the full length of the San Carlos anchorage on their low-level attacks. At times they...
Britain's gravest weakness was in the air. The 17 Sea Harriers aboard the British fleet cannot achieve superiority over Argentina's 42 Mirage and Dagger fighters and 64 Skyhawk bombers based on the mainland. An additional 18 Harriers, most of which had arrived in the Falklands battle area last week, would not be enough to make up the difference. The British reportedly asked Washington for a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft for in-flight refueling...
...Argentines sent six Israeli-built Dagger jets against the British fleet in retaliation, and claimed to have badly damaged at least one British vessel. The British admitted that a frigate had suffered minor damage and one sailor had been wounded, but said that they had downed at least two Argentine planes...
Even with the R.A.F. Harriers, the British are definitely outgunned in the air. The Argentines have 82 American-made A-4P and A-4Q Skyhawk attack aircraft, 21 French-built Mirage III fighter-bombers and 26 Dagger aircraft, an Israeli-modified version of another Mirage model. The Argentine Mirage Ills have a combat range of about 745 miles, enabling them to operate over the Falklands from bases on the Argentine mainland. The British may be able to offset some of the Argentine air advantage through skillful use of naval forces. Destroyers from the British task force, equipped with Sea Dart...
None of this means, though, that the pure vigor and passion can't put enough spin on the story to provoke a certain exhilaration. In this jewel-studded dagger-edged world, desperate passions in unshaded colors often seem more believable than subtleties could in their ability to ignite passions and away a throne. "Look," cries John at one point, cowering away from Richard. "He's got a knife!" "A knife," his mother screams back, "Of course he has knife! We all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!" For barbarians, the Plantagenets pack in impressive wallop...