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EXCLUSIVE By DAVID WILLETTS, Defence Correspondent, The Sun
Published: Today at 00:05

BRITAIN has sent deadly nuke sub HMS Talent to the Falklands to warn off the sabre-rattling Argies.



The submarine was dispatched last night with Tomahawk warheads as tensions simmer on the 30th anniversary of the conflict
with Argentina.

The Trafalgar-class “hunter-killer” vessel slipped into a port in South Africa last week under a cloak of secrecy. Simon’s Town
dock in Cape Town is a strategic staging post for South Atlantic missions. Defence insiders confirmed the sub was ready for
a lengthy deployment around the Falklands.

Talent will arrive in good time for June 14 — the anniversary of the day the British task force ended a 74-day Argie occupation
of the islands.

Argentina and president Cristina Fernandez have been upping the tension over the Falklands
with a host of inflammatory stunts.

They whined when helicopter pilot Prince William was sent on deployment there, they instigated trade blockades and they accused
Britain of war mongering.

And Argentina sparked international outrage by secretly filming an Olympic athlete training on the steps of the war memorial in the
capital, Port Stanley. The video ends with the provocative slogan: “To compete on English soil, we train on Argentine soil.”



Since launching in 1988 HMS Talent has conducted operations worldwide in her principal role as a hunter-killer.

But she can be deployed in a surveillance role — and is fitted with cameras and thermal-imaging periscopes. Although nuclear powered,
she does not carry nuclear warheads. But she is armed with a full complement of Tomahawk cruise missiles. They have a range of up to
1,000 miles.