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[STEMO]

...doesn't like the Donald either. Apparently, on a test fire,  it developed a mind of its own and headed straight for America. 
Or perhaps Putin has hacked our weapons systems........who knows?

[tigers_gonads]

Its all those cheep Chinese components that the yanks have been using for a few years.

Iirc, they was a big internal kick off about it a few years ago and changes was made 

Tbh, all the missiles are services at a central point in the good old US of A and are withdrawn from the same stack that the yanks use.
The only option we get is how many / which packages are in the top 

[Kevin Wood]

I wonder if this is exactly why we have "test firings"?

[tigers_gonads]

 

I believe we estimate that 1 in 10 of ours wont work anyway 

Much better then the Russians latest incarnation which iirc has upto a 50% failure rate 



With a bit of luck Teresa will tell the muppets its a "need to know" only and too piss off 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Most are pretty elderly. One could easily fly in the wrong direction and wipe out a northern town or two, like Barnsley or Wakefield.

Would this be such a bad thing?

[Varche]

 

[zirk]

If our Missile was heading for Trump Land, then CIA probably hacked into it.

[Migalot]

It was merely a test firing. Non-nuclear and non-ballistic.

The missile electronics detected a fault, went into failsafe mode and ditched itself in the sea, just like it is supposed to do.

I'm glad they found the fault now, so it can be rectified.

[STEMO]

Most are pretty elderly. One could easily fly in the wrong direction and wipe out a northern town or two, like Barnsley or Wakefield.

Would this be such a bad thing?

During the four minute warning, people would be paying back the money they'd borrowed.

[Tony H]

Everybody has had experience  of a dud firework , when it should go "whizz bang" it just goes "phutt" the only difference is that this missile costs rather more than a standard firework rocket. ah well sh*t happens back to the drawing board

[VXL V6]

Thing is, if we've got the point of launching our Nuclear deterrent, there's a pretty high chance that all the other countries in the Nuclear club are getting to the same conclusion.... so in an all out situation it probably doesn't really matter which direction they go in!! 

[steve6367]

Not really sure what the Times is playing at - the nuclear deterrent relies on a perception that it is effective and that we are willing to use it. RT etc are all over this and the only thing it is damaging is the credibility of the UK on the international stage.

Trident is a complex system and if we test it sometimes it won't work, but thats not something to shout about!

[Ever Ready]

Everybody has had experience  of a dud firework , when it should go "whizz bang" it just goes "phutt" the only difference is that this missile costs rather more than a standard firework rocket. ah well sh*t happens back to the drawing board

£17 Million a pop apparently

http://news.sky.com/story/no-10-covered-up-botched-missile-test-weeks-before-trident-vote-10738472

[minifreek]

Didn't this missile go a bit wrong back in June...? and it got covered up coz there was some sort of election/political thing going on at the time...?

[tigers_gonads]

Didn't this missile go a bit wrong back in June...? and it got covered up coz there was some sort of election/political thing going on at the time...?

Never really covered up 

The debate was whether to replace the submarines 
NOT the weapon system carried by them 

Its just a case of the press muppets actually believe that they should be told EVERYTHING 

Put it this way ................ If the government of the day told the British people EVERYTHING, people would be rioting in the streets because they are incapable of understanding how things work in the real world 

Things like this should be on a strictly Need To Know bases and the general population don't knew to know