Trident missile test fails for second time in a row

[Fred Bloggs]

Hard to believe this is accidental after two consecutive tests.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68355395

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Wed, 21 Feb 2024 06:35:48 -0800 (PST)) it happened Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote in
<64e05753-9950-4c18...@googlegroups.com>:

>Hard to believe this is accidental after two consecutive tests.
>
>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68355395

US nukes likely do not work either :-)

[Cursitor Doom]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:29:24 GMT, Jan Panteltje <al...@comet.invalid>
wrote:

Quite possibly. The only thing British about those missiles is the
warheads. All the guidance and propulsion systems are from America
IIRC.

[Martin Brown]

We likely got the end of line Walmart rejects for our "independent"
nuclear deterrent. To lose one Trident missile on a test launch is
unfortunate but to lose two in a row looks like carelessness.

I wonder what proportion of them will actually work as designed...

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Martin Brown

[Clive Arthur]

Luckily, it didn't hit our aircraft carrier.

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Cheers
Clive

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:07:53 +0000) it happened Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote in <ur76e1$3q9bq$2...@dont-email.me>:

Worst is when those things land in the wrong place, maybe a shot in the own goal!
US had one close to its coast in 1968 when some bomber carrying it crashed:
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/left-nuclear-warhead-bottom-ocean-128125
I do seem to remeber that bomb was recently found.
And:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:24:50 +0000) it happened Cursitor Doom
<c...@notformail.com> wrote in <sk4etidlo9hqf7foh...@4ax.com>:

The older generations worked on that, bit the same problem
as they now have few people with deep knowledge to fix that voyager spacecraft:
https://www.space.com/voyager-1-flight-data-system-glitch