Argentina offered to assist Ukraine with "Super Banner" fighter jets. Do you really use Ukraine as a scrap picker?
How can we talk about this topic? It started with how I felt when I saw the news. I think I have three questions I want to ask right away. Who to ask? Everyone knows it in their hearts. So what are the three questions? The first question: Are the 5 "Super Military Flags" you are preparing to assist Ukraine this time the same 5 that year? Was it those 5 in '82? You only have "5 machines and 5 bombs" in your hand, are those 5 planes? That's the first question.
The second question: You are now aiding Ukraine with these 5 "super military flags", are you sure that you dare to help other people's Ukraine, and other people dare to ask for Ukraine? Do people want it? Even if I say one more thing that hurts my self-esteem, even if people in Ukraine ask for these 5 "super military flags", will any pilot dare to fly?
The third question may be more heart-wrenching: do you aid Ukraine, do you still aid Ukraine? You helped other people to Ukraine these 5 "super military flags", do you really use other people's Ukraine as a scrap collector? When to pick up the rags?
So good, one by one. First of all, these 5 "super military flags", why did I think of them at the first time, could it be the 5 planes back then?
Which year? The Falklands War of 1982, how many years have passed, more than 40 years. Everyone says how do you think back then, when Argentina fought the Falklands War. As everyone knows, the most threatening threat to the British expeditionary task force is not the "Skyhawk" and "Mirage" planes of the Argentine Air Force, but the 14 "Super Flag" fighters that the Argentine Naval Air Force has just ordered from France.
In particular, the "Super Banner" attack plane produced by the French company Dassault was equipped with the "Tequila" air-to-ground search radar and guidance radar, and then the "Exocet" air-to-ship missile produced in France was then hung up. When we talk about the "Super Flag" fighter plane, the "Tequila" radar, and the "Exocet" missile, these three combined are capable of posing a deadly threat to the British task force that is still on an expedition of 10,000 miles, claiming to have two light aircraft carriers, the "Invincible" and the "Athletic God."
At that time, we knew that these "super flags" of the Argentine naval aviation were flying Exocet missiles, which was the biggest threat to the British task force. It is precisely because of this that the British are not stupid, they are determined at the moment, there is an iron prime minister herself, she has made an iron determination, when the "Iron Lady" is ready to reclaim the Falklands by force, Britain will do the work as soon as possible, NATO France, don't talk about the matter between the two of us, we are all in a pit and a ditch in NATO now, you have to talk about martial virtues, you can no longer just for money, you take me to die. So, those Exocet missiles and Super Flag fighters that you exported to Argentina, you stop me immediately.
In the end, we know that although France had previously ordered 14 machines and 14 ammunition, by the time the war began, France had actually delivered 5 machines and 5 ammunition to Argentina. But don't underestimate these 5 planes and 5 bombs, the biggest threat to the British Navy task force at that time came from these 5 planes and 5 bombs. I was very impressed by the fact that the missiles were counted one by one. The first sortie of the two-plane formation shot two, the second sortie of the two-plane formation fired two more, the last time is the claim has always been a historical unsolved case, the time when it hit the British "invincible" aircraft carrier, whether it was hit or not has become a historical unsolved case. In the end, there is only one missile left, so we talk about "a single plane and a single missile", and one missile per plane has to be hit once.
However, with these "5 machines and 5 bombs", quite good results were achieved. For example, it seems that the first sortie was to hit the lead ship, air defense ship, and radar sentry ship of the famous British "Sheffield" Type 42 missile destroyer, and I will kill you out. The second sortie was the British pre-war refitted "Atlantic Carrier" container ship, which was said to be a container ship, and after its modification, everyone knows that it is actually equivalent to a carrier ship of the "Sea Harrier" with vertical take-off and landing, or an improvised aircraft carrier. Then two ships were changed, "Atlantic Transporter" and "Atlantic Causeway". Two "Sea Harriers" with second-echelon reinforcements and the "Harriers" of the Air Force went to the front line together to reinforce, and you will not be enough for the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier. The second time I hit the "Atlantic Transporter", it was knocked out, and all the planes and ships were sunk for you.
The third and last time, we talked about one missile left, the time when we hit the "Invincible", the historical unsolved case, whether it was hit or not, so far it is not clear, anyway, the British did not admit to the death. 5 machines and 5 bombs, the British expeditionary task force was forced to that part, you pay attention to only "5 machines and 5 bombs". Therefore, the "super flag" of the French Dassault company was hung with "Exocet" missiles and "Tequila" radars, which was a myth.
So you know that after the Falklands War was fought at that time, everyone knew that we had an incident with Britain involving Hong Kong, and the "Iron Lady" fought that war and came to us, and Margaret Thatcher came to talk to us. As a result, after we finished talking in the Great Hall, when we went out, everyone knew that historical photo, a very famous historical photo, "the horse stumbled" when he went down the steps at the entrance of the General Assembly Hall.
You Britain is facing Argentina, you can be an iron determination, you can be an iron prime minister, you go to fight, no problem. China is not Argentina, and when they came to our doorstep to fight, Comrade Xiaoping said a very tough remark that the Chinese are a little poorer, but they are not afraid of death when they start a war. In the past, you have to think clearly, you are facing one of the five permanent members, I don't need to say more, you know what one of the five permanent members is.
But we all know that in such a context, do you know that at that time, it was rumored that since Britain could drive an aircraft carrier to recover the Falklands, could he not run from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere, across more than 10,000 kilometers, to the Far East? There is a possibility. At that time, when you talked about the Hong Kong issue, you honestly said that you still had strength behind you to support it, what kind of strength, especially what kind of strength to fight naval and air battles.
So at that time, we even had rumors, the military industry department considered, a look at the "super military flag" hanging "Exocet" missiles, it is indeed a threat to the British aircraft carrier formation, then we did not have the "Flying Leopard" in our hands at that time, at that time J-7, J-8, that J-7 are all good aircraft, at that time, in this case, at that time, it was said that we may consider our J-5, if it is modified, then the only aircraft that can be used at that time J-5 modification, including the installation of a "Tequila" is probably equivalent to a more advanced fire control radar, Then add our domestically produced anti-ship missiles, as you know, we showed our YJ-8 during the military parade in 84, and as soon as it came out, people immediately called it China's "Exocet" to the outside world, and the appearance was very similar.
So you think that although the Falklands War of '82 was fought in the southern hemisphere of the western hemisphere, for these things between China and Britain in the eastern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere, to be honest, the negotiations on the Hong Kong issue back then still had a certain impact. This is far away, let's bring the topic back, are these 5 planes the same 5 back then? Obviously not, we said that from the Falklands War in 82 to now in 2024, more than 40 years have passed, and all planes have become scrap metal. Then these 5 planes are obviously not the 14 that Argentina ordered that year, but only got 5 planes and 5 bombs, which is obviously not those 5.
I checked, when did I get it? In 2018. You see, from the Falklands War in 1982 to the "turn of the century" in 2000, it was a full 18 years. From 2000 to 2018, another 18 years. Note that two 18 years, 36 years have passed, Argentina was replaced from France in 2018, I can only say that it has replaced 5 planes, of course, it is a second-hand "super military flag", of course, it is a new production, then it has also undergone a certain upgrade. How much was spent, I looked at a figure and said it was 12 million euros. As for whether one plane cost 12 million euros, or whether these five planes cost a total of 12 million euros, I don't think there is any need to delve into it, anyway, it's such a money.
But the problem is that after I bought it in 2018, I have been putting it here, and a few years have passed, and it has not been listed, and it has not been used. It was also bought by the Argentine Navy, what is the reason for this? This brings us to the second topic we are going to talk about next, that is, these 5 planes, do you really dare to help other Ukraine, do you dare to ask for Ukraine? If someone wants it, will anyone dare to fly?