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{{quote|'''The Empire Strikes Back'''|''Newsweek'' headline (19 April 1982), after declaration of war.}}
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Resulted in 255 British and 649 Argentine deaths, as well as those of three civilians. The British lost several ships, including three Type 42 Destroyers. The most notable Argentine loss was of the cruiser ''General Belgrano'' (which had ''survived'' the [[World War II|attack on Pearl Harbor]] as the American USS ''Phoenix'') outside the pre-arranged war-zone to a British submarine - their navy played little part in the war after that.
A useful and comprehensive website about the war can be found [http://www.naval-history.net/NAVAL1982FALKLANDS.htm
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* [[Ace Pilot]]: A lot of the pilots on both sides, the British pilots on the one hand were the only ones to actually make air-to-air kills; while in the other hand the Argentine pilots managed to get great kills while running on very little fuel and also could only afford to drop their bombs and run. The war was one of the few occasions after [[World War Two]] when anyone even had a chance at earning the title of this trope.
* [[Argentines With Armored Vehicles]]: Quite literally (see the [[Tank Goodness]] entry).
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* [[Brits With Battleships]] [[Cool Plane|And Jump Jets]]: [[Cool vs. Awesome|As awesome as it sounds.]]
* [[Body Horror]]: [[wikipedia:Simon Weston|This guy]] was on board HMS ''Sir Galahad'' when it was bombed. [[Made of Iron|He survived with 46% of his body burned]]. Some time after the war, he met and became friends ''with the pilot who bombed him''.
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** On the British side, there's the [[wikipedia:Sea Harrier|Sea Harrier]], which was deployed in a warzone for the first time in its operational history. To a lesser extent, so were the [[wikipedia:Avro vulcan|Avro Vulcan]] strategic jet bombers - though this would be the the first, last and ''only'' time they were used in a shooting war, in the course of which they set the record for the longest bombing missions ever undertaken. Not bad for a design conceived in the 1940s, first flown in 1952 and ready to be phased out around the time the war started... [[Break Out the Museum Piece|You could say the war gave them a final blaze of glory before heading into retirement]].
** The Argentinian [[wikipedia:FMA IA 58 Pucar%C3%A1|Pucará]] ground attack planes may have been helpless against Sea Harriers and SAS operatives with grenade launchers, but the British found them hard to take down.
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=== [[The Falklands War]] in fiction: ===▼
== Comics ==
* ''[[Bloom County]]'' did a plot-arc set on the islands during the war, with the resident penguins offering perplexed comments on the fighting. Opus' mother seemingly perished in the Falklands War. {{spoiler|However, she survived with amnesia and was taken by a cosmetics company.}} (Despite this, Opus was originally from Antarctica, not the Falklands.)
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* On ''[[Yes Minister]]'' in the episode "The Bed of Nails", Jim Hacker opines that, if he takes on the traffic problem in Britain, "...if I succeed, this could be my Falkland Islands" -- to which Sir Humphrey replies, "And you could be General Galtieri."
* In the final episode of ''[[The New Statesman]]'', Alan B'Stard arranges to have a porn director stage a fake French invasion of the Falklands in order to trigger a war that will a) drive the value of his shares through the roof, b) secure an election victory for his new party, and c) let him declare himself Lord High Protector and effectively take over Britain for life.
* ''[[Top Gear]]'' has a special that has the British hosts try to get to Argentina by traveling down South America. In an [[Off the Rails|unscripted]] bit this ends poorly and the trip is cut short by rioters triggered one of the vehicles having a (random, non-vanity) plate that read "H982 FKL".
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* ''[http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ProSIM/TFW/TFW_page.html The Falklands War]'' from the indie war [[Simulation Game]] studio Shrapnel Games. Besides recreating actual missions and battles from the war, it also offers several [[Alternate History]] takes on various engagements, including greater use of armed vehicles on the islands.
* Another upcoming indie war sim about the Falklands conflict is ''[http://www.thunder-works.com/ Jet Thunder]''.
* The enviroments (islands with a subarctic climate and overall atmosphere) and the [[The Eighties|time frame]] in which ''[[Operation Flashpoint]]'' takes place are inspired by various aspects of this war, even though the plot is quite different (a small-scale NATO and Soviet showdown threatening to erupt into [[World War Three]]). The game had several Falklands-themed [[Game Mod|Game Mods]] over the years, directly featuring both militaries and various battles of the war. If you own the Game of the Year edition of ''OFP'', you can grab the Falklands War total conversion [https://web.archive.org/web/20081231010130/http://ofp.gamepark.cz/index.php?showthis=10588 here] and [http://ofp.gamepark.cz/index.php?showthis=10694 here]{{Dead link}} and run it from a custom mod folder. Sadly, the [[Development Hell]] it had gone through prevented its creators from making a proper campaign, so you'll have to play one of the three available missions or make your own in the game's editor.
== Western Animation ==
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** In one episode, Krusty takes a night off filming his show and sticks on a re-run, figuring that no one will notice; unfortunately for him, it happens to be the edition that was playing the night the Falklands War was declared, and he interrupted the show to deliver an [[Author Filibuster]] about it.
** The second [[Treehouse of Horror]] episode has a segment in which Lisa uses a wish to bring peace to the world, and the resulting montage includes a conversation between the British and Argentine ambassadors at the UN:
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"Oh, forget it. We kind of knew they were yours." }}
** An issue of ''The Simpsons'' comic has Mr. Burns remark "Oh, this is almost as fun as that Falklands War I started!"
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