Before people start thinking about flying the 64's from HM Ships, the US Army don't like flying this machine over water, because the emergency canopy jettison doesn't work too well under water. This will no doubt cause problems with the morale of the aircrew tasked to execute these missions.
The USMC, who fly an awfull lot from ships, they fly twin Cobra, my guess is there's a good reason for this! And it ain't cos the Cobra carry's more missiles!
A quick solution, purchase a dozen W Cobra's from the USMC and give em to 847 NAS.
Then we can stop all this talk of flying 64's from ships.