Economic and political constraints left too many British ships dependent on older missile generations by 1982. Wider deployment of Sea Wolf and Lightweight Sea Wolf could have raised both hit probability and the volume of defensive fire in the Falklands. If ships fitted with Sea Slug and Sea Cat had carried newer missiles, some losses might have been avoided. This is a counterfactual modernization argument and does not claim that one weapon would have removed every operational difficulty.
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The Falklands missile-modernization counterfactual
A counterfactual contrasts Britain's ageing Sea Slug, Sea Cat, and Sea Dart fit with the greater engagement volume that wider Sea Wolf deployment might have provided.