Falklands Campaign: Electronic Warfare Story Revealed

ALTHOUGH much has been written on various aspects of the Falklands Campaign, one area in particular continues to intrigue defence analysts and commentators. It concerns the nature and role of the ‘black boxes’ that gave ships, land forces and aircraft of the Task Force a vital Electronic Warfare (EW) capability. The extreme sensitivity which normally surrounds the subject means that, even now, little has been made public.