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[–] NeedleStack [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Uhhh ok, you guys seem to know what you're doing I guess lol.

Hiding the event in order to get approved funding is pretty sneaky and low.

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[–] Owlchemy 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Can't disagree with that, but may be a mountain out of a molehill, also. Like I said, failures happen in testing. It could've been anyone of a hundred minor things, none of which we'll ever know, because such reports are classified for obvious reasons. This one, veering off course, sounds like a guidance and control problem, which on a complicated system such as a Trident could be anything from a tiny mechanical issue to a programming fault. They happen. Fortunately not that often, but that's why we test. To find the weak links and fix 'em for the fleet.

I guess all I was trying to say is that the article, as with all such things like this, never really has the whole story. It leaves those without a background in such things with the impression that an British ICBM was going to crash into Florida. The Brits are our allies ... the tests they conduct on such are done with our assistance (thus off Fla ... at sea, like somewhere near Cape Canaveral - AKA our Eastern Test Range) and we were a part of the planned activity from day one. And we have redundant safeguards in place. We do our own Sub launched ICBM testing there, as well as off the CA coast, where we test ground based ICBMs from Vandenberg AFB, AKA Western Test Range. Politics aside, this is a non-story, add the Theresa May aspect, it's a clickbait title to get readers, but not really what the story is about.