That's my sorta sweeping genralisation!
But actually - puts Pedants hat on - while they did use French a/c (7 x Aérospatiale Puma SA330L, 17 x Dassault Mirage IIIEA, 4 x Dassault Super Étendard, 10 x Aérospatiale Alouette AI03) The bulk of their air power was Yank - more than 58 McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawks plus 30 odd Israeli supplied IAI Daggers (admitedly Mirage based but Dassults input was long in the past). Their tactical ground attack a/c was thir own turbo prop Fábrica Argentina de Aviones S.A. Pucara.
Confusion comes from the BBC repeatedly referring to the Daggers as Mirages and the success of the Aérospatiale AM.39 Exocet Anti-Ship Missile. This was probably France's 'crime', French technicians were in the process of getting the Exocet/Super Étendard combo up & running when the war started and, from my very fallible memory, the French goverment made efforts to stop the enthusiastic tekys from completing the work, they only finished 3 which amply proved the systems worth, sadly.
Anyway - climbs off hobby horse - wot were you saying...?

Rumour... The Exocets used Ferranti semiconductors in the avionics?

Could be perfectly true
Apparently the 450kg '1000lb' dumb/gravity/conventional bombs that sank HMS Coventry, HMS Ardent & HMS Antelope were finely crafted by the British armament industry - the smaller 500lb ones in the good ole USA; international trade huh?!
And of course they used their English Electric Canberras against us with no compunction @ all just because they had them! And worse, we shot 2 of them down - couldn't they see they were historic aircraft?? Wanton vandalism! Like scrapping 2CVs - or breaking them & selling them for parts....

My dad was saying how the RAF switched off their IFF signals (Indicator Friend or Foe) as the Argentine military were using it to indicate the 'friendly' signal. So bizarrely the British forces were shooting at any Canberra that was using IFF...

As long as they didn't hit any of our Canberras!!

"Production started in 1960 and continued until the late 1970s. Due to the political and economic conditions that prevailed in Argentina, Citroën ceased manufacturing cars in 1980 although vehicles continued to be assembled from parts on hand and CKD kits until the time of the Falklands War when because of French support for the British, the factory was confiscated and given to INDUSTRIAS Eduardo SAL-LARI S.A. (I.E.S.)."


From; http://www.citroenet.org.uk/foreign/lat ... tina1.html

Quartet of Velo-Solex. by 2steamhorses(Bob), on Flickr

Seen in Bordeuax last year outside a really great shop as below


Moped shop Bordeaux by 2steamhorses(Bob), on Flickr

The Exocets was delivered without navigation system. Our technicians make them work. Almost in manual mode

Mec, over here our television news give a very narrow view of Argentina and the Malvinas - what is the feeling in Argentina towards the UK. Are the Islands a matter of National pride?

How has cool pictures become a forum about a WAR???????