France may have kept secret the existence of a “kill switch” which negated the threat of its much-vaunted Exocet missile, which Argentina used to destroy a British warship during the Falklands War 40 years ago.
Pierre Razoux, a former French defence official, has told the Daily Telegraph the French knew of a way of stopping the incoming missiles but did not hand it over before the sinking of HMS Sheffield in May 1982.
The Sheffield, a Type 42 destroyer, was part of the Royal Navy taskforce sent to the South Atlantic to recover the islands—known to Argentina as the Malvinas—after General Leopoldo Galtieri invaded the archipelago in April 1982.
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