Talk:Military of the Falkland Islands

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Rename article ? To Falkland Islands Defence Forces - this is more correct.--jrleighton 10:56, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it is very important (move it if you want to). Falkland Islands Defence Forces is already a redirect if you move the page just make sure that Military of the Falkland Islands directs to Falkland Islands Defence Forces insted. However, there is an almost defacto standard that overview miltary pages are at Military of the... titles (see Military of the United States) but there is also precidence for using the proper name (for the UK, for example). As long as there is a redirect, I don't see that it matters (but I may be in a minority of one). Andreww 21:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

There is a cultural difference issue here. In US English, as I understand it, the word "military" is used to mean what in UK English would be "armed forces". The Concise Oxford Dictionary allows such a use to mean only the senior officers of armed forces (as in "Burma has been governed by the military for many years"). The US usage is creeping into UK use (probably as a result of bad practice by pretentious journalists who like to show how cosmopolitan they are), but is not there yet. Wikipedia prefers UK usage on UK topics, and therefore that usage should be preferred here. I shall move unless there are objections. Deipnosophista (talk) 06:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Move
This organisation is never called 'Military of the Falkland Islands' by anyone. It's a wiki-invention. Unless there are objections, I will move the article, over the redirect, to British Forces South Atlantic Islands on Sunday 10 January 09. Buckshot06(prof) 18:13, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No objections but Sunday is the 11th. Regards,  Justin talk 17:12, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose - this is not the name of an organisation, but the title of the article, and is in line with the titles of other articles on similar subjects. --MacRusgail (talk) 17:56, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Tornado to Typhoon conversion
Can someone verify if the typhoon is in service in the Falklands now? It says in the article that it should have been in service from the end of 2007 yet it says the current interceptor is the Tornado. 82.38.116.119 (talk) 16:45, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No they haven't been replaced yet. Just checked the RAF Website, it is still F.3.  Justin talk 16:55, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Number of Typhoons
Can someone verify the number of Typhoons in service at Mount Pleasant? The dedicated page for the base says there are four. So are there five or only four?! CrackDragon (talk) 07:21, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * There are 4. Justin talk 09:54, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Definitely 4. The confusion may have arisen because 5 were originally despatched. One was always intended as a "spare" in case there were technical difficulties. The fifth aircraft returned to the UK after all 5 had reached Ascension Island without problems.

Agent0060 17:34, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Royal Navy warship capability
Can anyone make a useful contribution regarding the capabilities of the RN warship(s) on station? According to the HMS York (D98) article, the vessel has a MOD 1 4.5 inch gun, 2 Twin Sea Dart missile launchers (40 missiles) and 2 Phalanx CIWS. Also a Lynx helicopter with anti-ship missiles and anti-submarine torpedoes. By contrast, according to the HMS Portland (F79) article, this vessel has a 4.5 inch gun, 2 quadruple Harpoon missile launchers, 1 Sea Wolf vertical launch system, 2 twin 12.75 inch ASW tubes, 2 30mm AA guns, 2 CIWS (Phalanx?) and Seagnat and DL3 decoy launchers. Also a Merlin helicopter with anti-ship missiles and anti-submarine torpedoes. By my reckoning, that makes HMS Portland more heavily armed than HMS York. A frigate is more heavily armed than a destroyer? Of course, York was commissioned in August 1985 whilst Portland is a little more recent (May 2001). The difference in capabilities seems obvious to me, but I'm not a naval expert. Is Portland more capable/powerful than York? Agent0060 18:36, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't understand why that's relevant to the article, perhaps it could be a point to say one is more heavily armed but it seems irrelevant to me. G.R. Allison (talk) 09:58, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * This is an article about British miltary forces on and around the Falkland Islands. The on-station warship is, for the most part, the only thing that changes at intervals. Capabilities are of the essence.

Agent0060 19:51, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

News Article
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/falklands-garrison-still-going-strong

Phd8511 (talk) 22:17, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Most of this is obsolete
and not properly referenced.Phd8511 (talk) 15:38, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Aircraft
It's certainly the case that the Tornados are long gone now. Who's responsible for removing unnecessary "Talk".

Why is a C-130 referred to as a C3. And that's out of date anyway. As far as I can see, the C3 designation would be solely for the RAF, so why not refer to it as a C-130H(C3)? And, according to the article "List of active United Kingdom military aircraft" there aren't any C-130H(C3)s anyway. They've all been replaced by the C-130J(C4) and C-130K(C5). Unfortunately, I have no idea whether the aircraft on the Falklands is a J or a K. Does anybody know?

In addition, does anybody know whether the TriStar tanker has been replaced by the RAF Voyager yet? Agent0060 11:32, 23 May 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agent0060 (talk • contribs)

Royal Navy
It occurs that the Royal Navy destroyer/frigate deployment is getting a bit wordy and unwieldy. If there is a suitable data source, perhaps it could be replaced by a table?Agent0060 12:11, 23 May 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agent0060 (talk • contribs)

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if you want to given lousy uneducated info about SAR be my guest.Phd8511 (talk) 12:50, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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New Commander
https://britisharmedforcesreview.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/strategic-command-senior-personnel-6.pdf Commodore Jonathan Lett

Arrival of Kosovo security forces
The first group of foreign troops to be deployed to the islands with British permission in history by Kosovo. 81.110.70.101 (talk) 20:01, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Radar Systems
Which (Kind of) Radar Systems are placed at the falklands? Maik Stellenberger (talk) 16:58, 27 October 2023 (UTC)