Reading about the Royal Navy and their reorganisation following World War 2 in the 60s and 70s and the designing of their ships and missiles one of the things that puzzles me is why did they seem so much in favour of trainable launchers instead of vertical launchers? From what I can gather whilst vertical launchers might have some things to work around initially they generally seem to offer more advantages in terms of ease of use and number of missiles carried, all benefits for building an alternate Royal Navy if you can also get vertical launched Exocets and Ikaras. So does any one of out naval aficionados happen to know what put them off so much? Even one of their main missiles, Sea Wolf, was originally tested as vertically launched but they went with trainable launchers instead. Thanks.