Trident Missile Test Fails for Second Time in a Row

D'oh!

#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-02-21 09:46 PM | Reply

This ain't good...

UK Trident submarine missile launch failed with top brass aboard
www.defensenews.com

... British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps and other top officials were on board a Royal Navy nuclear submarine when the test-firing of a Trident II 5 nuclear missile failed last month.

The misfire saw the missile crash back into the sea close to the submarine HMS Vanguard which was undertaking demonstration and shakedown operations off the coast of Florida following a seven-year deep maintenance program.

Shapps confirmed the failure in a Feb. 21 statement to parliament after reports of the Jan. 30 incident appeared up in The Sun newspaper here.

It's the second Trident test firing in a row that has gone wrong for the Royal Navy. The previous misfire took place in 2016 when a missile veered off course and was destroyed.

Shapps was accompanied onboard HMS Vanguard by Britain's top sailor, Adm. Sir Ben Key, numerous media outlets have reported. ...

imo, any test that fails with "top brass aboard" is more than just a failure.

It is an embarrassing catastrophe.

Why? When "top brass" agree to be involved, there seems to be an assurance of a successful test.

A successful test did not happen on this occasion.

So the Top Brass now have to explain why they were present.

Yeah, this ain't good.

On multiple levels.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-21 10:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

So our "nuclear deterrent" is not fully functional? Wow.

I guess depending on mass death to "protect" ourselves was a bad decision after all.

What happens if this is the result in a real war situation?

What happens if the missiles misfire but the nukes detonate anyway?

Killing Americans instead of the intended targets.

Nuclear Arms are So Stupid.

What could possibly go Wrong?

And people say the Russians have a crap military. Lol.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2024-02-23 03:35 AM | Reply

Management from Boing?

#4 | Posted by bat4255 at 2024-02-23 07:13 AM | Reply

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer

The British you mean, unless you are now from the UK.

That aside, nobody's nuclear deterrent is fully functional. I would bet not half of our ready deterrent is. I am thinking it is more like 10% for Russia.

#5 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-02-23 09:32 AM | Reply

So why have them at all? Poison gas is no longer used in War,even the Nazis knew better.

Why not cancel the Nukes? Do you feel safer with them?

I don't.

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2024-02-23 09:58 AM | Reply

Management from Boing?
#4 | POSTED BY BAT4255

Lockheed. I met a mechanical engineer who worked on the first Trident.

aside, nobody's nuclear deterrent is fully functional. I would bet not half of our ready deterrent is
- GalaxiePete.

Trident IIs are in a shared pool with the US.

Reports are its a "calibration" error, it emerged from the Sub out of the ocean, and didn't fire its rockets.

How could they only have a test after 8 yrs?

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-23 02:36 PM | Reply