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French-built air-to-air missiles actually
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Going off-topic in the other direction, they were air-to-sea missiles, really. At least the French let us look at the specifications (we'd never considered we'd be facing weapons from our own side, so had no intelligence on them!). Also remember that the General Belgrano was originally American, they also had almost new British built Type 42 frigates, the Argentine aircraft carrier was a former British one and the Argentine air force was supplied by France, Israel and the USA.
One of the more curious side-stories to the Falklands debacle was the efforts by the British secret service to buy up any black market Exocets before the Argentinians could get hold of them. There were very few actually shipped to Argentina before the war, luckily.
I don't see why Harry wouldn't make it - Edward might not have enjoyed the Marines much, but Harry's father and grandfather both served in the Navy - Prince Phillip was even Mentioned in Despatches for working a searchlight during the Battle of Matapan (look it up, it explains all the jokes about why the New Italian Navy has glass-bottomed boats)*.
* So they can see the Old Italian Navy