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.

[davebro3]

if they worked every time there would no point in doing test firings

[bednobs]

you are right it is pretty embarrasing.  What i dont get is why/how everyone knows.  Youd think we'd keep that kind of thing secret for just this sort of occasion.  

[bednobs]

the problem is davebro, when you want them to work, it's pretty imperative they do!

[bhg481]

Don't we buy the missile from the USA and put our own warheads in? That means it's the USA's fauly.

[nicebloke1]

The elastic band broke. :0))))

[gulliver1]

It's poor little Shappie I feel sorry for , bet it made him seasick.

[nicebloke1]

Sunak said, The UK must look forward with pride and optimism?? That optimism just sunk :0)

[douglas9401]

The Shapps stood on the Trident deck

Reflecting in the glory

Of folk defending us from harm

Alas, the same old story

[gulliver1]

Now if this submarine had been sailing in Clear Blue Water. The Cons would not have mentioned this embarrassment and Britain would have just carried on ruling the waves.

[nescio]

gulliver,

this sort of thing could never happen under a Labour government, could it?

[gulliver1]

10.20 Just got to give you BA for that one Douglas.

[nicebloke1]

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

[gulliver1]

It wasn't a cock up ...in Tory language it was just an "anomaly"

[gulliver1]

Can well imagine Schapps with his head sticking out of the

Con-ning Tower, looking skywards ..binoculars wrapped around his neck. lol

[gulliver1]

It appears this is not the first time a missile failure, has happend with the Royal Navy's ageing nuclear weapons fleet.Hope there are no russian spy's on AB.

[davebro3]

as long as the Russians think they might work there's no problem

[Ken4155]

Putin must be shaking like a leaf in a gale-force wind. Two successive failed tests, yet the government insist all is well.

I'm with those who believe this should have been kept 'in-house'. No point telling the world how useless we have become.

[nicebloke1]

11.03. Putin is not great at stopping to think. Mad men dont do it, and the older he gets the less he cares about any outcome.

[davebro3]

I think that's right nicebloke & it's a worry. He may be such an egotist that he thinks himself bigger than his country and his people & would start WW3 just to ensure he goes out with a bang (so to speak).

Hopefully his military might disobey🙄

[gulliver1]

The missile was launched ,it left the submarine and just went down plop right next to the Sub .And poor old Grant in the Conning tower got wet.