Nuclear dud

joejoe87

So the trident missile system failed a launch test. Unsure whether this is a good or bad thing! The amount of dosh the UK is pumping into it though and most of the info on the failure is coming from the yanks while Westminster is dodging questions. I wonder how many failures have gone unreported

Harry Palmr

Trident is the missile not the payload.

Avatar MIA

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Trident is the missile not the payload.

Unless they want to Nuke the East Coast of Scotland, that's pretty moot.

joejoe87

I know but the warheads are useless if they can't be delivered by trident.

sparky42

joejoe87 wrote: »

So the trident missile system failed a launch test. Unsure whether this is a good or bad thing! The amount of dosh the UK is pumping into it though and most of the info on the failure is coming from the yanks while Westminster is dodging questions. I wonder how many failures have gone unreported

Yeah, you're a bit off, the UK is spending the majority of the money on the successor class SSBN's, the Trident missiles are a common core with the US and this could have happened to a US boat as well, just depends on where the missile gets sent to. The USN tests the Trident far more regularly without this reported fault, this test by the way was more for the SSBN rather than the missile.

BoJack Horseman

joejoe87 wrote: »

So the trident missile system failed a launch test.

Launch was successful. Only after it was noticed that one of the data acquisition /telemetry systems on the missile itself wasn't working properly.
So they aborted flight as per procedure and ditched the missile in the sea.

Had the UK government just said this at the time it would have barely raised a ripple.

Anyway, there is a good summary here:
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/serious-trident-missile-test-failure/

This kind of thing happens.
France had a similar abort with a test firing of their new M51 nuclear missile back in 2013
http://defense-update.com/20130505_m51-nuclear-missile-fails-on-test-launch-from-a-newly-upgraded-submarine.html

The_Valeyard

Avatar MIA wrote: »

Unless they want to Nuke the East Coast of Scotland, that's pretty moot.

Already looks nuked.

gctest50

joejoe87 wrote: »

So the trident missile system failed a launch test. Unsure whether this is a good or bad thing! The amount of dosh the UK is pumping into it though and most of the info on the failure is coming from the yanks while Westminster is dodging questions. I wonder how many failures have gone unreported

and that's why they need to test them ........ about 2300 times :

sparky42

gctest50 wrote: »

and that's why they need to test them ........ about 2300 times :

It's testing the missile not the warhead.

Silvera

gctest50 wrote: »

and that's why they need to test them ........ about 2300 times :

I watched 3 minutes of that video..scary stuff..I didnt realise there had been so many nuclear tests over the years?!!

4068ac1elhodqr

gctest50 wrote: »

and that's why they need to test them ........ about 2300 times:

Think it said in the papers that the Ruskies biggest stick can't be tested (by air drop) as it's too big and there simply isn't a plane fast enough to get away from the shroom that would follow.

It's cheerfully named Mr Satan the 2nd or something lighthearted like that.

AndyBoBandy

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

So they aborted flight as per procedure and ditched the missile in the sea.

How unlucky would you have to be to be out sailing at that moment, in the exact spot they ditched it?

joejoe87

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

How unlucky would you have to be to be out sailing at that moment, in the exact spot they ditched it?

LOL Ya some poor old guy who just set sail on his new boat , the "Lucky Voyager"