US official confirms UK's Trident missile failure

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Washington (CNN)A missile test involving Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent system ended in failure off the coast of Florida last year, a US defense official with direct knowledge of the incident told CNN on Monday.

The official told CNN that the incident, which happened last June in an the area off the Florida coast used by the US and the UK for missile tests, did not in involve a nuclear warhead.
Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported that the missile veered towards the US coast, but the US official told CNN that this trajectory was part of an automatic self-destruct sequence. The official said the missile diverted into the ocean -- an automatic procedure when missile electronics detect an anomaly.
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A month after the test, the UK parliament approved the renewal of Trident at a cost of £40 billion. Unaware of the failure, members of the House of Commons voted by 472 votes to 117 in favor of renewal.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/23/europe/trident-missile-failure-theresa-may/index.html

US claimed their Trident SLBM has succesive 160 launch success, and poor britain naively believed that, so they want to have a shoot of their US trident as well, and the result: they aim at pacific ocean and the missile go to inland American, and actually the most funny part is, according to UK, it is the US asked them to cover the failiure up.

Maybe during the war the UK should try to aim at the US to ensure the missiles has a higher probability to reach russia

Like I said many times before, the US is all about hype, the biggest and only reliable weapon it has is its propaganda machine to fool their own citizens.

 

[YeBeWarned]

Oh Boy but but but ... this is why we test things

 

[52051]

Oh Boy but but but ... this is why we test things

No, it is not test things.

Trident SLBMs enter mass production and service for 30+ years, acutally it is the backbone of the US nuclear force.

And the US boast this SLBM is so reliable such that during various drills they have successive 160+ launch success of this SLBMs.

The significance of this news is, it provide an insight (althrough many has already known that) that how reliable the US weapon systems are, and how believable their words are.

 

[YeBeWarned]

No, it is not test things.

Trident SLBMs enter mass production and service for 30+ years, acutally it is the backbone of the US nuclear force.

And the US boast this SLBM is so reliable such that during various drills they have successive 160+ launch success of this SLBMs.

The significance of this news is, it provide an insight (althrough many has already known that) that how reliable the US weapon systems are, and how believable their words are.

well this is one way of seeing things but maybe UK was trying to Test it with some Modification that we do not know, Plus BM is another piece of Machine bro, and like every other Machine in the world there are chances of Failure ..

 

[52051]

well this is one way of seeing things but maybe UK was trying to Test it with some Modification that we do not know, Plus BM is another piece of Machine bro, and like every other Machine in the world there are chances of Failure ..

No, the maintance of all trident missiles is done by the US, let along any modifications.

Otherwise do you honest believe any countries could take someone so lightly and even try to cover that up, if they hit by nuclear SLBM/ICBMs by others?

And every machine has a chance of failure, but the US claimed their trident has a track record of ZERO launch failure through 160+ successive launch success, such rate of success basically mean failure is a statisitical impossibility.

 

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That's what britain gets for using american junks.