A few years ago, I was talking to a Polish historian, ex-Polish Navy, a specialist in mine and anti-submarine warfare.
The conversation turned to the 1982 war and my question was: What interested you about the war (he was active at the time), the Exocet?
He told me that no, they were not interested in missiles, that they estimated that the first salvo of their (Warsaw Pact) missiles in the Baltic alone would be 200 launches and that they could get little out of 5 missiles in the South Atlantic.
What interested them was how the British, in no time at all, transformed their merchant fleet to support the war effort. They had no idea they could do it. That led them to modify part of their war plans.