What An Embarrassment .

[gulliver1]

It's not just the British Navy aircraft carriers that are breaking down .It's the  Submarines also A Trident missile has crashed into the ocean during a test launch after being fired from a British Submarine with Grant Shapps aboard the Sub at the time.

[gramps85]

Gulliver. When the missile was launched the submarine was underwater, so nobody was standing on the conning tower so nobody got wet. Please get your facts right.

[gulliver1]

A spokesperson said. This test has reaffirmed the effectiveness of the Royal navy and it's nuclear deterrent in which we have absolute confidence.....Eh !

[gulliver1]

Bet the spokesperson was a Tory MP .

[ichkeria]

"They only get tested once in a (blue) moon due to massive defence cuts."

Not so: here's a link (finally)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395
Although the very first line contains an error. Since 2016 the system has been tested successfully several times. Over a dozen in fact 

[bednobs]

howw so ikheria?

the link you provides says the last successful launch was in 2012

[retrocop]

Indeed Brian Rix is alive in Whitehall.It enables the squaddie,matelot and erk to trot out the all too familiar comment.

'The kit is provided by civil servants in the MOD Procurement Department. Like the kit they provide us with they don't work and can't be fired'

[ichkeria]

"the link you provides says the last successful launch was in 2012"

And like I say the link is wrong 😄.

I don't know but I'd imagine there are tests that don't involve a hapless Shapps or whoever in a high profile scenario. Those are the ones that Sod's Law says will end in embarrassment.

[gulliver1]

When asked if these missiles would work in the case of warfare a spokesperson said "well they should,  we know they work for America".

[bednobs]

how do you know Ick?

[gulliver1]

And to make even better reading the submarine concerned HMS Vanguard.Had just completed a £500m overhaul .

[nicebloke1]

£500 hundred million and not one can of WD40 to help it on its way. That button must have been a bit stiff for Shapps to push. :0)))))

[ichkeria]

"how do you know Ick?"

From naval people who know about these things 

[Ken4155]

If there have been "over a dozen" successful tests since the last failkure in 2016, ich, don't you think we would have heard about it. It would have been shouted from the rafters.

Your naval chums are probably pulling your leg.

[Old_Geezer]

Apparently the manufacturer was a US company. Maybe we need to build our own missiles.

 

Yes, since it is the second failure on a row it is an embarrassment. One trusts all the stops will be pulled out to discover exactly why it failed and to correct it. After all, a missile that flops has zero deterrent. Which means the next one that works will be fired against the idiot nation that took this as a green light to take the UK on.

[Old_Geezer]

From the BBC website.

 

"The test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed, for the second time in a row."

[ichkeria]

" don't you think we would have heard about it. It would have been shouted from the rafters."

No, I don't because successful tests - which like I say are not all going to have the same high profile or context - aren't "news". This is newsworthy, and embarrassing, although quite what actually "failed" isn't clear.

""The test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed, for the second time in a row.""

Which I have three times now pointed out is incorrect 🙄

[ichkeria]

What gets "shouted from the rafters" are the pantomine cock-ups. That is human nature.

[jno]

the response sounds rather like "It will definitely work when we're at war, it's only for test firings that we use duds". I hope Putin believes every word of it.

[Ken4155]

Ichkeria, i cannot find any source that backs up your claim that there have been many tests since 2016. Every article i have read are in agreement that it is 8 years since the last test, which also failed.

In fact, a few of the articles are saying that the last successful UK  test came in 2012.

[gulliver1]

Seems like Rule Britannia  is playing Russian Roulette with it's Nuclear deterrent's.