Taskforce
On this day in 1982 (April 29th) the British Task Force arrived in the Maritime Exclusion Zone (MEZ). The MEZ had been declared by the British Government on 12 April and covered a circle of radius 200 nautical miles from the centre of the Falkland Islands. Any Argentine military ships entering the MEZ could be attacked by British nuclear-powered submarines.
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Taskforce
On this day in 1982 (April 29th) the British Task Force arrived in the Maritime Exclusion Zone (MEZ). The MEZ had been declared by the British Government on 12 April and covered a circle of radius 200 nautical miles from the centre of the Falkland Islands. Any Argentine military ships entering the MEZ could be attacked by British nuclear-powered submarines.
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