Ah, but I've actually served around naval ordinance. I've served in the Navy, been stationed on DDGs and FFGs, witnessed missile shoots from other ships, participated in live fire exercises on my own. I've seen Sparrow missiles shot off, Tartars, Standards, even watched them shoot of an old Talks during a summer cruise in my ROTC days. And based on that I can safely say that none of the witness reports that I have read bears any resemblance to the missile shoots that I've seen. I've spent too much time in these discussion far more often than I should have, but I do it because after having served my country's Navy for 23 years I cannot sit idly by and see the Navy attacked and torn down by people who haven't the faintest idea of what they are talking about, or who claim to speak authoritatively on subjects that they are ignorant about.
I have no idea what brought down TWA800. But it wasn't a Navy missile.