MP @grantshapps plays down the Trident test failure and heralds it as a success for the British Royal Navy. pic.twitter.com/c6mj4O0DzQ
— Robert Sproggit 🇪🇺🇮🇪 (@robertsproggit) February 21, 2024
Obviously, the missile wasn’t armed with a warhead.
But still.
You want to talk about the “competency crisis,” this example is just beyond belief.
This makes doors blowing off Boeing jets look like a stubbed toe.
You can’t replace competent white men with women and brown people and expect the systems to continue to function. It just doesn’t work that way.
Britain’s Trident nuclear-deterrent system misfired during a test last month, sending a missile crashing into the ocean off the Florida coast near the submarine that launched it, The Sun newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Defence confirmed that an “anomaly” had occurred during the test but said Britain’s “nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective”.
With Defence Secretary Grant Shapps on board the HMS Vanguard to witness the test, The Sun said, the first-stage boosters on the missile – equipped with dummy warheads – failed to ignite.
The result marked the second successive test failure of a Trident missile after one was reported to have veered off course in 2016, an embarrassing outcome for a country that once boasted the largest and most powerful naval force in the world.
“It left the submarine but it just went plop, right next to them,” The Sun quoted an unspecified source as saying.
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Earlier this month, one of Britain’s two flagship aircraft carriers, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, had to be withdrawn from the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War over a propeller issue.
Are you ready for Rishi to accidentally blow your stupid ass up, gaywad?