A7E Driver
I'm not very knowledgeable on missile systems but the programme seemed to imply that the chaff screen thrown up by Glamorgan (I think) fooled the exocet heading for the main part of the fleet and when it swung off for the chaff and came out of the cloud it found the nice big juicy target presented by Atlantic Conveyer, so would this not have helped when Sheffield was attacked (I know you can't guarantee a miss but it's got to be better than doing nothing.)
I agree though that it's a shame that the programme degenerated into a witch hunt at the end although the two seamen seemed to have fairly strong opinions and the motivation seemed to be to remove the blame from the captain who was (according to the programme) getting some rest after pretty much three days of constant watch.
Supermunk
The explanation given in the programme was that the navy didn't have any defence system for sea skimmers because at that time the Warsaw Pact didn't have any sea skim capability and the fleet existed to fight the sov's. Therefore there was no perceived threat.
[edited coz of spling and it chopped off my last sentence for some odd reason????]
[This message has been edited by Gash Handlin (edited 02 July 2001).]