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The Falkland Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom and, as such, rely on the UK for guarantee of their security. The other UK territories in the South Atlantic, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, fall under the protection of the British forces on the Falklands (also known as British Forces Falkland Islands or British Forces South Atlantic Islands), which includes commitments from the British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. [1] They are headed by the Commander of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (CBFSAI). [2] Tri service logo This image is Crown copyright protected. ...
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A United Kingdom overseas territory (formerly known as a dependent territory or earlier as a crown colony) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper (almost exclusively Great Britain and Northern Ireland). ...
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Motto: Leo Terram Propriam Protegat (Latin: The Lion shall protect his own land) Official language English Capital Grytviken Commissioner Howard Pearce Area - Total - % water not ranked 3,093 km² - Population - Total (2006 E) - Density not ranked ~20 n/a; Currency GBP Time zone UTC/GMT -2 National anthem God Save...
The armed forces of the United Kingdom are known as the British Armed Forces or Her Majestys Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Crown. ...
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services being the oldest of its three branches. ...
The maintenance of only a token military force before the Falklands War allowed Argentina to start that conflict by easily capturing the islands. [3] Following the reclamation of the territory in 1982, the UK invested heavily in the defence of the islands, the centre-piece of which is the new airfield at RAF Mount Pleasant, 25 miles west of the previous base at Stanley. The base was opened in 1985, and became fully operational in 1986. [4] The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), was an effective state of war in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands (also known in Spanish as the Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. ...
RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands is the most recent purpose-built airfield in the Royal Air Force. ...
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RAF Mount Pleasant, built following the surrender of Argentine invasion forces, is capable of accepting trans-Atlantic aircraft such as the Lockheed Tristar. The Tristar was purchased mainly for the UK-Falklands route, until their entry into service leased 747s and 767s performed air transport. [5] The Lockheed SR-71, remarkably advanced for its time and unsurpassed in many areas of performance The Lockheed U-2 first flew in 1955 providing much needed intelligence on Soviet bloc countries Lockheed Corporation was an aerospace company founded in 1912 which merged with Martin Marietta in 1995 to form...
The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the third widebody passenger jet airliner to enter operation, following the Boeing 747 and the Douglas DC-10. ...
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The RAF's Tornado F3s provide air defence for the islands and surrounding territories. The four aircraft, and the crews that fly them, are rotated with UK based assets. The aircraft are housed in non-hardened shelters, sixteen of which were built for surge operations in time of tension or hostility. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Panavia Tornado. ...
The VC10 provides air transport and aerial refueling for the fighters. When a fighter is launched it almost immediately followed by the VC10 as changeable weather conditions might make diversion to another airfield necessary. The C-130K provides resupply missions through the use of air-drops and also carries out maritime patrol. The latter is an important mission to the Falkland Islands government as the Hercules verifies that all fishing vessels are licensed; at £1,000 per licence per season this is an extremely lucrative source of income. The VC-10 airliner was designed and built by Vickers in the 1960s. ...
The helicopters of 78 Sqn provide air transport missions. The Sea Kings and the Chinook also carry out short and medium range search and rescue missions respectively. The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors. ...
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Chinook has several meanings: The Chinookan nation of Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, which inhabited the lower Columbia River valley in what is now Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. ...
Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea...
Organisation While the UK officially does not foresee any threat to the Falkland Islands, it maintains significant military forces as a deterrent against any aggressor. ...
ADV: RAF Tornado F3 RAF Tornado ZA463 Luftwaffe Tornados at CFB Goose Bay, Labrador The Panavia Tornado designates a family of twin-engine fighters jointly developed as the Multi-role combat aircraft or MRCA for United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. ...
While the UK officially does not foresee any threat to the Falkland Islands, it maintains significant military forces as a deterrent against any aggressor. ...
The VC-10 airliner was designed and built by Vickers in the 1960s. ...
Lockheed C-130H Hercules The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop aircraft that serves as the main tactical airlifter for military forces worldwide. ...
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The Sea King helicopter is the only helicopter used by the Norwegian rescue service The Westland Sea King is a license-built version of the Sikorsky helicopter of the same name, built by Westland Helicopters. ...
A Royal Air Force Chinook A field artillery section slingloading a M-198 howitzer for airlift by a CH-47 Chinook The CH-47 Chinook is a versatile, twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. ...
The Royal Air Force is the second largest operator of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook of the 16 nations which use the type. ...
Royal Navy RAF Mount Pleasant has its own port facility [6] and the Royal Navy maintains a presence in the area with a frigate or destroyer in the South Atlantic and a patrol ship permanently close to the islands. In addition an Ice Patrol Ship, HMS Endurance, is on station close to Antarctica for 6 months of the year. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services being the oldest of its three branches. ...
Frigate is a name which has been used for several distinct types of warships at different times. ...
USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer (French: contre-torpilleur, German: Zerstörer, Spanish: destructor, Italian: cacciatorpediniere) is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers...
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The warship carries out the South Atlantic Patrol Task mission which "provides a maritime presence to protect the UK's interests in the region". Currently the Type 42 destroyer HMS Southampton performs the South Atlantic Patrol Task having taken over from HMS Cardiff when she was decommissioned in August 2005. Although the majority of the Royal Navy fleet, unless required, remains training and exercising in and around Home Waters, the Navy has a number of standing commitments, including those held for contingent operations, to provide ships for various missions around the world: // Fleet Flagship and R2 Carrier Normally two aircraft...
Type 42 destroyer HMS Manchester Type 42, also known as the Sheffield class, is a class of destroyers of the Royal Navy. ...
HMS Southampton (D90) is a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. ...
The third and present HMS Cardiff (D108) is a Type 42 (Batch 1) destroyer of the Royal Navy. ...
The Falkland Islands Patrol ship is a Castle class vessel. Currently HMS Dumbarton Castle patrols the waters of the Falkland Islands having taken over from a 3 year deployment by HMS Leeds Castle when she returned to the UK to be decommissioned at the same time as Cardiff. In 2007 HMS Clyde will relieve HMS Dumbarton Castle and HMS Leeds Castle, currently under construction by VT Group shipbuilders in Portsmouth, it is planned that she will stay permanently in the South Atlantic until 2012. The Castle class was intended as a series of six offshore patrol vessels for the Royal Navy, designed in response to criticism of the previous Island class. ...
HMS Dumbarton Castle main role is the protection of the offshore assets of the United Kingdom, including our oil and gas installations and fisheries out to the 200 mile limit. ...
The second HMS Leeds Castle is a Castle-class patrol ship built by Hall Russell Co. ...
HMS Clyde is a Royal Navy patrol ship currently under construction by VT Group shipbuilders in Portsmouth, England. ...
HMS Dumbarton Castle main role is the protection of the offshore assets of the United Kingdom, including our oil and gas installations and fisheries out to the 200 mile limit. ...
The second HMS Leeds Castle is a Castle-class patrol ship built by Hall Russell Co. ...
The Royal Navy also has submarines that it can deploy to the area, though such deployments are classified.
British Army The British Army maintains a small garrison on the Falkland Islands based at Mount Pleasant. The total deployment is about 500 personnel made up of an Infantry Company, an Engineer Squadron, a Signals Unit, a Logistics Group and Supporting Services. [7][8][9] The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD) provides a constant support and is part of the Joint Service Falkland Islands Detachment which consists of RAF and RLC EOD teams. It is mainly based in Stanley but there is also a detachment at Mount Pleasant. The group destroys munitions from the Falklands War that did not explode at the time and briefs troops, tourists and citizens on the areas which are safe and the minefield marking which have been put in place. [10] The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The Royal Logistic Corps is a British Army corps that provides the logistical support for the Army. ...
US Soldiers removing landmines. ...
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The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), was an effective state of war in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands (also known in Spanish as the Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. ...
There is also a Joint Communications Unit (JCUFI which incorporates the Signals Unit) providing the electronic warfare and command and control systems for the Royal Navy, Army and Air Force stationed there. [11] Electronic warfare (EW) has three main components: Electronic Attack (EA) This is the active use of the electromagnetic spectrum to deny its use by an adversary. ...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services being the oldest of its three branches. ...
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The Falkland Islands also maintains its own part-time volunteer force, the Falklands Islands Defence Force, previously known as the Falkland Islands Volunteer Corps. Although this unit existed in 1982 as a reinforcement for the Governor's detachment of Royal Marines, it did not play any part in the War of 1982. [12][13]
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Aruba · Falkland Islands · French Guiana · South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Barren Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying south west of East Falkland and south east of George Island. ...
Beaver Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying west of Weddell Island and south of New Island. ...
Beauchene Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying thirty miles south of Sea Lion Island, the nearest land. ...
Bleaker Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying southeast of East Falkland. ...
Carcass Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying north west of West Falkland and south east of the Jason Islands. ...
East Falkland (beige) shown within Falkland Islands East Falkland, the largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, has an area of 6,605 square kilometres. ...
This article is about George Island in the Falkland Islands. ...
The Jason Islands are an archipelago in the Falkland Islands, lying north west of the main island group, and about 250 miles east of Argentina. ...
For the Keppel Islands of Australia, including Great Keppel Island, see Keppel Bay Islands National Park Keppel Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying between Saunders Island and Pebble Island. ...
Lively Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying west of West Falkland. ...
New Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying north of Beaver Island. ...
Pebble Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying north of West Falkland. ...
Saunders Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying north west of West Falkland. ...
Sea Lion Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying eight miles south of East Falkland. ...
Speedwell Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying in the Falkland Sound, southwest of East Falkland. ...
Staats Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying between Beaver Island and Weddell Island. ...
Weddell Island shown within Falkland Islands Weddell Island is the third largest of the Falkland Islands, with an area of 98 square miles (254 km²). Until the late nineteenth century, it was known as Swan Island. ...
West Falkland (shown in white) within the Falkland Islands group West Falkland, known as Gran Malvina in Spanish, is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, with an area of approximately 4,532 km² (5,413 km² including the adjacent small islands). ...
West Point Island is one of the Falkland Islands, lying west of West Falkland, from which it is separated by the Wooly Cut channel. ...
Government House in Stanley has been the home of the Falkland Islands London-appointed Governors since the mid-19th century. ...
Nowadays, the Governor of the Falkland Islands is the local representative of the British Crown in the Falkland Islands. ...
The Legislative Council has 10 members, 8 of which are elected every 4 years and 2 members ex officio. ...
The politics of the Falkland Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom (also claimed by Argentina), is minimal, lacking any political parties and differing little from standard British governmental and legal proceedings. ...
The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic. ...
Camp is the term used in the Falkland Islands to refer to any part of the islands outside of the islands only significant town, Stanley. ...
Darwin is a settlement on East Falkland, lying on Choisel Sound, on the east side of the islands central isthmus. ...
Goose Green is a settlement on East Falkland in the Falkland Islands. ...
Port Egmont is a settlement on Saunders Island, within the Falkland Islands Categories: | ...
Port Howard is the largest settlement on West Falkland and is the centre of a 200,000 acre (800 km²) sheep farm. ...
Port Louis is a settlement on northeastern East Falkland. ...
Port San Carlos is located on the northern bank of the San Carlos Estuary on the Western coast of East Falkland (also known as Soledad), in the Falkland Islands. ...
San Carlos is a settlement in northwestern East Falkland, lying south of Port San Carlos on San Carlos Water. ...
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RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands is the most recent purpose-built airfield in the Royal Air Force. ...
The Coat of Arms of the Falkland Islands were granted on September 29, 1948. ...
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Falklanders are very much into good food, being well known all over the southern half of South America and the Antarctic territories for their excellent wurstels. ...
Flag ratio: 1:2 Civil ensign; Flag ratio: 1:2 Governor of the Falkland Islands flag Malvinas Flag according to Argentina The Flag of the Falkland Islands was adopted on September 29, 1948. ...
.fk is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Falkland Islands. ...
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The Falkland Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom and as such rely on the UK for guarantee of their security. ...
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