>Downing Street is being accused of a cover-up after a malfunction in Britain's Trident nuclear weapons deterrent in a test just weeks before a crucial House of Commons vote. The Sunday Times reports that a Trident II D5 missile experienced a failure after being launched from the British submarine HMS Vengeance off the coast of Florida in June last year. MPs are now demanding an inquiry and are calling for a Commons statement from Defence Secretary Michael Fallon on Monday. The cause of the failure remains secret, but a naval source told The Sunday Times that the missile - which was unarmed for the test - may have veered off in the wrong direction towards America. "There was a major panic at the highest level of government and the military after the first test of our nuclear deterrent in four years ended in disastrous failure," the source told the paper.
it's great to know that our state of the art technology will never fail us.
>I could have been nuked without even knowing it was going to happen
Sebastian Watson
Don't dump our tea again. please.
Jordan Roberts
It was unarmed but just lol at Trident. Maybe if libshits weren't constantly trying to defund it we could reduce the chances of inadvertantly nuking our allies
Ryder Perez
time to nuk the UK
Oliver Morales
>it's great to know that our state of the art technology will never fail us. >state of the art
half of Trident is 30 years old
Jonathan Lewis
>what is sarcasm
William Roberts
>it landed in San Francisco and then two more were accidentally launched and they too malfunctioned. One landed in NYC, second one in Baltimore
remember when America droped bombs in AZ's coral reef?
i wonder if these "accidents" are messages and for what reason.
Xavier Bell
I don't get the problem, the whole point of doing a test is to see what problems (if any) occur so you can fix them. Would people rather this happen during a real situation?
Jayden Sanders
maybe if we built a british domestic system at BAE instead of cucking ourselves to the USA's shit-tier missiles, we wouldn't need to test it on their coast.
>m-muh costs France can afford it. Britain can afford it, we simply choose not to pay for it even though borrowing costs are at historic lows.
Joseph Williams
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Ayden Collins
the problem is that they covered it up.
Gavin Richardson
Accidents happen. No harm no foul. Welcome back to the White House, Prime Minister Churchill.
Gavin Evans
Grab your powder, grab your gun, report to General Washington...
I think they really are accidents. It's stunning how incompetent important military personnel can be and how easily expensive equipment can malfunction or give a false reading. Like during the Cold War, a Soviet missile detection station picked up 100 ICBM launches from the midwestern US. Turns out it was just their own shitty satellites picking up a reflection of the sun off of the lakes in Minnesota.
Easton Reyes
prepare to get teabagged by president trump, limeys
friendship over, this is what happens when you put a woman in charge
Connor Davis
>The UK has not run a programme to develop an independent delivery system since the cancellation of the Blue Streak (missile) in 1960. Instead it has purchased US delivery systems for UK use
Jayden Evans
>Tfw Britain had it's own rockets and satellites but the Conservatives scrapped it them early 70s, partly because NASA promised to launch our shit for free - then rescinded the offer once we cancelled our rockets, making Britain the only country on earth to obtain and then lose such capability.
Brody Kelly
hmmm seems to close to all the happenings so far i reckon they want to justify pushing for a new budget for trident i mean its only a week before an important vote its seedy to do but this is sharia may were talkin about.
Luke Jackson
I hate yanks so much.
Robert Kelly
National security issue dummy, let's announce to our enemies that a nuclear test firing was unsuccessful.
James Evans
Take my Yous
Leo Mitchell
What the fuck happened to it?
If I remember correctly Obongo fucked it up.
Logan Ross
If there's one thing our government is good at, it's building up to something great and sinking lots of money into it before scrapping at the last minute.
Connor Edwards
more important that the house of commons is made aware of things pertinent to it's decisions desu.
Christopher Gray
To be fair, NASA can't really make promises since they don't control their funding.
Cooper Perry
>shit tier missles
kek
Justin Davis
but i love you
Oliver Howard
I'm gonna need some context with that statement but the liberals leave no stone un-shit.
Zachary Cox
> mfw Sup Forums is forgiving of the UK for foriegners g a missile at us > Mfw if this was Israel firing a rocket as the US Sup Forums be would spazzing out.
Chase Gomez
Britain gave it to us as a gift, and President Bush put it in the Oval Office. Obama removed it and replaced it with a bust of MLK. Trump brought Winston back.
Daniel Young
very true and this is why i can relate with Israel and funny enough its this site that made me think like this..
if this was Ireland they would be bashin our flags for weeks straight on this board with jew related memes
if they even did this to another country they be happening threads galore for days
remember the phone call Israel gave to New Zealand a few weeks ago, everyone jumped the gun on all fuckin war
Jacob Howard
Do we know if trump is getting rid of that lying womanizing degenerate nigger MLK?
Jason Bailey
Have you learned anything from it yet?
The student became the teacher long ago yet you in-breeds fail to realize it.
Jayden Price
we put a probe on mars in december 2003.
Robert Morgan
gee wiz it's like anudda boston massacre
Joshua Young
Fuck Trump Fuck White people.
Ian Bailey
Thats an odd looking rocket even for the 70's.
Anthony White
we're still cool Britbro, it only would have hit Florida anyway place is a mess already
Connor Ramirez
It wouldn't have changed anything. A nuclear deterrent is still vastly cheaper than expanding the military, and it doesn't stop the other nations from having nuclear weapons just because we choose not to have them.
Easton Long
Are you talking about the Beagle 2? I love the UK, but in all fairness, you crashed that fucker into the Martian surface and then lost the signal. The mission was a failure, friend.
Dominic Robinson
>a probe >named Beagle 2
It was a total fucking failure and you had no idea what happened to it until NASA found it over a decade later.
Joseph Long
>Friendship with UK ending >Now CANADA is your best friend
Mason Hughes
the importance of a nuclear deterrent would be a primary reason to reveal flaws with the current one to parliament so they could consider a more appropriate option.
it landed fine, it just didn't open it's solar panels.
Liam Ross
wow, you supposedly put a man on the moon with rockets that were created by russian amd german scientists. Meanwhile we mapped the entire globe, created numerous nations. Invented everything worth inventing and created the greatest empire this world has ever seen. When America becomes a second rate power, which it will, it happens to everyone. You will be forgotten. You haven't accoplished anything at all.
Ayden Wood
"ACCIDENTALLY"
Andrew Ramirez
>Nuking Florida
It's unlikely that anything of value would be lost.
I'm fine with this.
Angel Roberts
Dude US dropped 2 live nukes on Atlanta one time, both were armed but failed to detonate
We lost 5 more nukes around the world but luckily they always
Michael Clark
>The cause of the failure remains secret
It's okay lads, that was just our automatic killswitch. Why would we sell you something you could use against us?
Christian Sullivan
so you can be incompetent and a dick, when the bombs were droped off in the coral reef it happened just a few day after the Aussies refused to station more troops then a few days after the incident they reconsidered stationing them.
message received.
Bentley Bennett
When scots aren't making engineering work in UK the brits fuck everything up fast. Put scots the ones with brains back in charge.
Asher Russell
>we mapped the entire globe, created numerous nations. Invented everything worth inventing and created the greatest empire this world has ever seen.
This was a pretty accurate statement a few hundred years ago. Since then the globe has caved in on you, the created nations are now migrating in your direction, and just about everything you invented is totally irrelevant today.
Easton Watson
>back in charge am wut?
William Jackson
Why can't no other country into missiles and rockets?
All other country's missile tech is outdated garbage and doesn't even work right after spending billions of $s
Daniel Allen
>Why can't no other country into missiles and rockets?
You guys can't even get the batteries to work in these things. Don't worry though Pajeet, our scientists will help you.
Caleb Parker
im gona.. Bump
i feel like a certain someone wants this thread slid
Daniel Gomez
How much would changing batteries cost in USA cost? 5 billion dollardoos to Lockheed Martin?
BTW your ICBM is nearly 50 years old and unupdated. Agni 5 has ring laser gyroscope for navigation, MIRV payload capability etc. And your govt. spends 500 gollorian $s on your military. Sad!
Lincoln Carter
That is exactly what I'm saying. We are irrelvant now. We were far more powerful than you and yet it all ended. Your shithole won't even be remembered in a thousand years.
Asher Thompson
Hey fuck you the entire fucking world just had a day of protest over a businessman who will most likely have no say in any of their live all because he was elected US president arguably the single strongest man on earth right now.
Nathaniel Hill
FLASE FLAG ABORTED RUSSIAN WAR POSTPONED SHUT IT DOWN GOYIM REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Cooper Cruz
The entire world fears us and knows our name. Your empire could not say the same.
Andrew Green
Exactly. It isn't the 1950s anymore. You don't account for half the world economy. >entire world fears us >can be wiped out completely by Russia at any moment Yeah nah, dumb cunt. You're weak in comparison to the Britain of old. Britain spanned 1/4 of the globe, enforcing its culture and language on the uncivilised barbarians while you protect them, for free. You disgust me.
Andrew Gutierrez
pfft america is the strongest country in history thanks to yurop's WW2 blunder
Gabriel Walker
>british engineering.
Plz trump no trade with england
Benjamin Clark
We don't worry about batteries here, our interns are capable of doing that. Meanwhile in India you guys still can't figure out how they work.
Lasting 50 years without needing an update is only something you can dream about.
The fact that you still haven't figured out basic plumbing speaks volumes about your engineering capabilities.
wow, impressive. Not sure how you'll compete with the emerging asian markets that pay their workers fuck all. Guess what will happen, boyo? You'll get paid fuck all aswell so your shithole country can compete. I find it hilarious how you think trump will save you. A pity he didn't run 50 years ago.
Jaxon Bennett
>now that would have been a happening...sips tea.
Eli Martin
>be brits >playing with rockets in the ocean >accidentally launch one at merica >merica sees missile on radar >assumes its russia or china trying to emp >full scale retaliation ordered >russian oth radar is broke, never see it coming >chink oth radar never worked anyway >russian/chinese fully annihilated >russian dead hand system launches what's left at predefined targets >aegis takes them out >brits never say a word about any of it
Cameron Bennett
> we almost nuked the christmas tree we keep in good condition out of respect
