Richard Green
4th November 2006, 18:58
I wonder idf anyone noticed this article in Friday's Telegraph...The last line may explain why Govt. investment in keeping the Navy up to strength has not perhaps been what it should be...
"Sheffield's crew are blamed for Exocet hit
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
A report into the sinking of the destroyer Sheffield with the loss of 20 crew during the Falklands War was released for the first time by the Ministry of Defence yesterday.
Its 3,000 pages of evidence concluded that the sailors failed to keep a suitable watch or take effective measures to prevent the ship being hit by an Exocet missile fired by Argentine jets.
The Navy board of inquiry said if all the right reactions had been taken "very quickly indeed" it "might just have been possible to frustrate this determined and very professional attack".
On May 4 the destroyer, designed to ward off air attacks, was patrolling in waters off the Falklands to protect the task force's two vital aircraft careers."
"Sheffield's crew are blamed for Exocet hit
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
A report into the sinking of the destroyer Sheffield with the loss of 20 crew during the Falklands War was released for the first time by the Ministry of Defence yesterday.
Its 3,000 pages of evidence concluded that the sailors failed to keep a suitable watch or take effective measures to prevent the ship being hit by an Exocet missile fired by Argentine jets.
The Navy board of inquiry said if all the right reactions had been taken "very quickly indeed" it "might just have been possible to frustrate this determined and very professional attack".
On May 4 the destroyer, designed to ward off air attacks, was patrolling in waters off the Falklands to protect the task force's two vital aircraft careers."