British nuclear missile 'misfires and crashes into ocean'

Oh yeah, the Brits doing what they do best....stupid things....again. This was the second misfire in a row. The Brits need not worry about Russia nuking them, they will probably nuke themselves. Benny Hill didn't have nothin on these morons.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ar-sub-missile-launch-fails-trident-misfires/

"A Trident nuclear missile misfired and crashed into the ocean near the submarine that launched it during a test last month, it has been reported.

It is the second misfire in a row, with a test launch of a Trident missile by the Royal Navy off the coast of the US in June 2016 also reported to have been a failure."

Or maybe they'll nuke the US mainland instead.

 

Lockheed Martin is an American company. Unlike Russia, news of failures are reported

 

I highly doubt they are "test firing" missiles that are not inert. Cited article is behind a paywall. Still, not a good look for LM. There should be ZERO failures of these systems, as deployed.

 

The North Koreans have missile malfunctions all the time.

 

...its the black powder fuses the navy use....they weren't sufficiently waterproofed...

 

to be honest it's probably not a bad thing that this happened as the whole point of a demo and shakedown op is to do just that...UK Tridents come from a USN pool so RN just nicks the bits and bob they need, the Warhead's ours but everything else comes from USN so lots for everyone to check out...

 

I would imagine, but have no way to verify, that NK's missile technology is at least some measure less sophisticated than the currently deployed missiles in use by the British Navy. That said, every successful military technology is the culmination of a long string of failures. If the article were not behind a paywall, perhaps more information about the tests and their failures would be available. Were they testing the missile, or the launch systems? Were they testing new technology, or currently deployed technology? What part of the system failed? Does this failure create implications about other deployed systems?

 

Really don't understand this cackling glee when one of our closest allies has a test missile not work properly. They are after all test missiles.
Pretty sure no one in England guffawed when 5 US marines died in a helicopter crash in November. Was that Americans doing what Americans do best? Or do accidents, mistakes, and mishaps happen everywhere, all over the world, all the time?
To try to make something out of two tests, 7 years apart failing is just weird.