"Ad absurdum per aspera" wrote in message
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missions that may have been heroic but made zero difference in the
outcome of the war?

So what do you think of the "Black Buck" missions in the Falklands war
from that standpoint? Definitely a tour de force of planning and
airmanship, but what was their result on the fight?


Minor IMHO except in so far as they forced the argentines
to retain aircraft for home defence

Some say they had little effect in terms of their ostensible goals
such as runway denial, but caused Argentina to hold back forces to
defend their mainland. Or is that just a popular misconception?


No its accurate enough but the forces retained were
not specialist naval attackers as I recall. In any even they
were a minor part of a small war and scarcely count
as either great or strategic.

Keith