HMS Yarmouth's twin 4.5-inch Mark 6 mounting is contrasted with the single guns carried by other escorts. The same twin mounting had equipped the postwar Daring class, whose three twin mounts and larger ammunition supply could have been valuable in the Falklands. The estimate, given with some uncertainty, treats a single naval gun as about half a light-artillery battery, or roughly four 105 mm-class guns, and a twin mounting as ten light guns. Under that comparison, Yarmouth and Active represented about fourteen light guns at Mount Tumbledown, more than two six-gun batteries and almost two eight-gun Cold War British Army batteries. Goose Green might likewise have benefited from another frigate once the scale of Argentine opposition became clear. In land-artillery terms, missing a naval gun meant losing a sizable amount of mobile supporting fire.
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Frigate guns as mobile artillery batteries
Falklands-era frigates carried gunfire comparable to substantial land-artillery support while bringing their own mobility and ammunition supply.