The scenario moves from deploying existing forces to quietly expanding production before open war. Contracts for anti-aircraft missiles, guns, and other stores would begin as tensions rose. Britain in 1980 still retained more domestic industrial capacity than it would after later restructuring. British Steel is the clearest example: it was still state-owned in 1980, with privatisation coming much later, so a mobilisation plan starts from a different institutional base than one set near the end of the decade.
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Britain still had a large mobilisation base in 1980
Emergency orders for missiles and guns would draw on an industrial structure that had not yet undergone the major privatisations associated with later Thatcher governments.