UK Considers Aircraft Carrier Deployment to Red Sea as Tensions Rise

[KhunLA]

More wasted tax dollars.   Y'all need to stop buying American junk.   Overpriced F35s, and apparently Tridents don't work very well either.  RTnews blip, but sources from the Sun, and an unarmed nuke missiles test had a major oops, and not the first time.

 

More wasted tax pounds, maybe better spent subsidizing citizens' heating or food  bills instead of defense budget.

 

"British nuclear submarine test fails

 

An unarmed Trident missile splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean moments after being fired from a sub

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said an “anomaly” occurred during the test-firing of a Trident missile from a British nuclear submarine off the coast of the US state of Florida last month, raising concerns about the effectiveness of London’s nuclear deterrent.

 

UK tabloid The Sun, which first reported the story, said on Tuesday that the missile, which was fitted with fake warheads, splashed back into the ocean after its launch from HMS Vanguard. The state-of-the-art nuclear submarine was not damaged when the 58-ton missile re-entered the Atlantic Ocean.   According to the report, the “anomaly” occurred when the missile’s first-stage boosters failed to ignite after launch. “It left the submarine but it just went plop, right next to them,” the outlet quoted an anonymous source as saying.

 

The last Trident test in 2016 also failed when the missile veered off course, the BBC said, adding that each weapon comes at an estimated cost of £17 million ($21.5 million)."

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Edited February 22 by KhunLA

[thaibeachlovers]

On 2/22/2024 at 2:08 PM, KhunLA said:

More wasted tax dollars.   Y'all need to stop buying American junk.   Overpriced F35s, and apparently Tridents don't work very well either.  RTnews blip, but sources from the Sun, and an unarmed nuke missiles test had a major oops, and not the first time.

 

More wasted tax pounds, maybe better spent subsidizing citizens' heating or food  bills instead of defense budget.

 

"British nuclear submarine test fails

 

An unarmed Trident missile splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean moments after being fired from a sub

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said an “anomaly” occurred during the test-firing of a Trident missile from a British nuclear submarine off the coast of the US state of Florida last month, raising concerns about the effectiveness of London’s nuclear deterrent.

 

UK tabloid The Sun, which first reported the story, said on Tuesday that the missile, which was fitted with fake warheads, splashed back into the ocean after its launch from HMS Vanguard. The state-of-the-art nuclear submarine was not damaged when the 58-ton missile re-entered the Atlantic Ocean.   According to the report, the “anomaly” occurred when the missile’s first-stage boosters failed to ignite after launch. “It left the submarine but it just went plop, right next to them,” the outlet quoted an anonymous source as saying.

 

The last Trident test in 2016 also failed when the missile veered off course, the BBC said, adding that each weapon comes at an estimated cost of £17 million ($21.5 million)."

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I seem to remember that Britain, once upon a time, long long ago, actually made things themselves, including missiles, but somewhere along the line someone decided to just buy them off the Americans, and Britain stopped making stuff itself.

 

What a great idea, NOT.

[KhunLA]

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I seem to remember that Britain, once upon a time, long long ago, actually made things themselves, including missiles, but somewhere along the line someone decided to just buy them off the Americans, and Britain stopped making stuff itself.

 

What a great idea, NOT.

With all the failures, by all countries, that we read about, and I even remember reading that US missile silos were still running Win X, not sure if BS or not.  Would hope so, but don't care, actually a good thing, up from floppy discs 

 

But just think is someone did actually 'push that button' and managed to launch one ... 1 ... nuke, and then everyone joined in to retaliate, but nothing actually worked.

 

Would kind of make you wonder where all that money went.   I mean if the US Pentagon can misplace billions & trillions of $$$, over a short period, and they've been in the killing business for how long 

 

... hmm, no wonder RU wasn't allowed to join NATO ... then who would be the boogie man ?

Edited February 24 by KhunLA