{"id":3719,"date":"2014-12-29T16:32:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T21:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2014-12-29T16:32:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T21:32:13","slug":"argentina-and-uk-falklands-spat-spiced-up-by-russian-jets-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3719","title":{"rendered":"Argentina and UK Falklands spat spiced up by Russian jets \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Argentina and UK Falklands spat spiced up by Russian jets \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Falkland Islands – a UK overseas territory Argentina lays claim to – have been allegedly reviewing their defenses after news Russia may offer Argentina fighter jets. Moscow could swap them for beef and wheat, UK’s Daily Express says in its report.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0deal reportedly involves<\/a>\u00a0a lease\/lend of twelve Sukhoi Su-24 all-weather attack aircraft, which NATO calls “Fencer A”. The jets will be able to do air patrols over the Falklands’ capital, Port Stanley. According to the tabloid, Ministry of Defense officials fear Buenos Aires will take delivery of the planes well before the 2020 deployment of the Navy\u2019s 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and its F-35B fighters, leaving a \u201creal window of vulnerability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Up to 1,500 troops, backed by a naval warship that visits throughout the year, are permanently based on the Falklands, along with four RAF Typhoon jets, plus anti-aircraft and artillery batteries.<\/p>\n

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Argentina and UK Falklands spat spiced up by Russian jets \u2014 RT News. The Falkland Islands – a UK overseas territory Argentina lays claim to – have been allegedly reviewing their defenses after news Russia may offer Argentina fighter jets. Moscow could swap them for beef and wheat, UK’s Daily Express says in its report. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2251,2254,694,820],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-argentina","tag-falkland-islands","tag-russia","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}