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They have an airforce and Exocet anti ship missiles. They sank British multiple Uk warships during the Falkland wars.
by adrr 5y ago
They have an airforce and Exocet anti ship missiles. They sank British multiple Uk warships during the Falkland wars.
- tangus 5y agoWell, that was 40 years ago. And also, you don't launch Exocet missiles against commercial ships...
- adrr 5y agoThey sunk Chinese fishing boats before. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Yan_Yuan_Yu_010 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Yan_Yuan_Yu_010
- theshrike79 5y agoThis is exactly what the Chinese fishing fleets are counting on. They won't go away and they WILL take every single living thing from the ocean unless someone steps in.
- MrDresden 5y agoNo, you race up to them with a gunboat and shoot 2 warnings shots accross the bow. The third one goes into a boat. Quite standard practice, and very much applicable in situations where these roaming fleets are steeling quota that they have no right to.
- petre 5y agoThey should be arrested. Let the PRC handle their release with a massive press scandal.
- Stranger43 5y agoThe question is have they replaced/maintained everything since then. The problem with a lot of navies is that if you refuse to decommission old rust buckets you end up with an navy that looks impressive on paper but rarely makes it out of port and i suspect this is the case for the Argentinian navy. you don't need dozens of blue water warships to patrol against pirate fishing, you need a few patrol boats and a few long range maritime surveillance planes.