Hosted on MSN11mon
UK’s Trident missile system has failed again during a test
This left the 58-ton missile to plunge back into the sea very close to HMS Vanguard, one of Britain’s four Trident-armed nuclear submarines. More embarrassing still was the fact that the British ...
Hosted on MSN11mon
The failure of the UK's £17 million Trident missile launch is 'beyond embarrassing' and undermines the nuclear deterrent, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps is warned
Last month, during a test off the coast of Florida with Mr Shapps and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key on board, the HMS Vanguard crew performed a doomsday drill. A Trident 2 missile was ...
BBC11mon
Trident missile test fails for second time in a row
The test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed, for the second time in a row. The latest test of the UK's nuclear deterrent was from HMS Vanguard and was seen by ...
MercoPress5y
UK's third next generation nuclear deterrence sub will be named HMS Warspite
The boat will take her place in the Fleet in the 2030s, alongside HMS Dreadnought, Valiant and a fourth, as yet unnamed, submarine, each carrying Trident nuclear missiles on deterrence patrols for ...
The National Interest21d
Trident II D5
When HMS Dreadnought entered service with the Royal Navy in 1906, she was the most revolutionary warship of her era. She was the first battleship to feature a uniform main... In March, the United ...