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.
"Ultimately Downing Street decided to cover up the failed test. If the information was made public, they knew how damaging it would be to the credibility of our nuclear deterrent. The upcoming Trident vote made it all the more sensitive."
>may have veered off in the wrong direction towards America.
>may have veered off in the wrong direction towards America.
>may have veered off in the wrong direction towards America.
>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.
I wonder what went wrong with it?
Thomas Miller
Why do bongs hate us so?
Nathan Hill
It's like this for Europe towards USA
Jack Green
Fuck you dude. I'd personally email everyone involved with Trump to make you pay reparations till your island officially fell to the shit skins
Jayden Cox
The missile was hard-coded to find the shortest route to Germany.
Someone just forgot to turn the auto-pilot off so it looked as though it was headed for Florida, when in fact it was truly aimed at Berlin.
t. Trident sub engineer
Grayson Lee
Hacked by Putin himself.
Lincoln Parker
keked and checked
Bentley Bell
> LOL HAHAHA BRITISH ARE A JOKE.
The missiles are American.
Eli Miller
then why try to cover botched launch?
Colton Robinson
Well to be fair the missiles need regular maintenance and updates. You guys probably left them sitting in the ground for too long and they got dusty.
Henry White
Fuck knows, they're built in America. But just so everyone knows the test was a success and after the end of which the sub was certified ready for deployment so the incident wasn't anything serious
Benjamin Roberts
Why wouldn't you? Public opinion is everything. Especially for a superpower like UK. Your country and my own would do the same.
Owen Cooper
The Trident missiles are designed and built by America, we buy them from America and fit them with our own warheads.
The government covered it up because we recently had a vote on whether or not to renew the nuclear deterrent (which costs a LOT of money). This missile failure would have added weight to the opposition argument that the deterrent is unnecessary and a waste of money.
Bentley Jenkins
Our missiles are maintained and pooled from the same stockpile yours are my good burger
Jayden Nguyen
Nah yall are fucked nigga.
Carson Stewart
Wait a sec that's our country dying :(
Adam Richardson
To be honest I don't get the issue
>Test fire missile >It goes wrong >Determine why is went wrong >Solve problem for future reference
The whole point of a test is it not?
If you want to argue about a cover up, then ask yourself why would you ever announce to the world that your recent missile test had just failed? There's a little thing called 'national security'. The fact that it happened around the time a vote happened is completely irrelevant, the "cover up" would have happened regardless because you don't fucking reveal these things.
Noah Allen
That is worrying. Our Ohio class subs are a big part of our deterrent .
Easton Allen
Funny, I seem to remember our missiles working as intended when tested not too long ago.
Zachary Gomez
Our military always announces when missile test fails.
If fact, I'm quite surprised that there are nations who do this silly cover up stuff.
Andrew Peterson
lol were you born yesterday or something
do you remember them announcing when a nuke goes missing? Because they have.
Xavier King
You guys have thousands of nukes though and multiple ways of delivering them. We literally have 4 SSBM subs and only 1 of those is out on patrol ready to launch
Adrian Wilson
SLBM
Jeremiah Carter
>do you remember them announcing when a nuke goes missing? I remember news reports about at least five different failed tests of our submarine nuclear missiles.
Nukes don't go missing by the way, their position is always being tracked in real time.
Lincoln Jones
thx for the intel :^)
James Wood
Hey would any of you do Teresa May?
Gavin Ward
Where are the Anglos when we need them?
Kevin Sanchez
I still have a 100% success rate with firings.
Adam Green
If this shit would have hit my House in connecticut, the entire UK wouls be at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Fucking Brexit cunts
Jaxon Howard
kek
>we nuke America >America thinks it's China >America tries to nuke China but chubby fingers mash the keypad >America nukes Sweden >Scandinavia parties/dies >Nu-libs and cucks go wild, blame Russia >Nicola Sturgeon seduces a butch-presenting femme at a secret Scottish army base and steals nuke sub >Nicola Sturgeon nukes Russia >Russia try to nuke Sturgeon but don't know who she is >Russia nuke North Korea >North Korea too malnutritioned to do anything >South Korea play K-Pop louder than ever before >Kim Jong Un escapes on two man rocket ship, doesn't let anybody else onboard >Mexicans flee the North American nuked continent >get crushed against own wall with Guatemala >Merkel horrified by loss of ethnic life >Merkel nukes Germany >the Middle-East turn on Merkel after she killed so many of its sons >Middle-East band together and all nuke Isreal >Israel's Samson Option nuke defence senses nukes and sets off its own nuke failsafes >Israel sends hundreds of nukes into sky, but they only hit the hundreds of nukes that are raining down on it >creates huge nuclear fallout dome effect that knocks Earth off rotational axis >gigantic hole appears in Mt Everest >Nazi spaceships fly out >they were waiting this entire time
