Bad news! This is a week old news, but it kind of escaped me!
What is going on with the UK? A nuclear power in decline while the Russo-Ukrainian War goes into its third year?
"A British nuclear missile test launch failed at a site off the coast of Florida, marking the second time in eight years that the country’s Trident 2 ballistic missiles have malfunctioned during trials.
An “anomaly occurred” during the test on board the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Vanguard, a UK Ministry of Defense spokesperson said Wednesday in a statement, adding, “We are confident that the anomaly was event specific, and therefore there are no implications for the reliability of the wider Trident missile systems and stockpile.”
Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent system suffered an earlier failure off the coast of Florida in June 2016, a US defense official with direct knowledge of the incident previously told CNN. ..."
The nuclear-armed submarine HMS Vanguard
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