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It's got to be patriot but how have they made it capable of shoot and scoot? Loaded it all onto flatbed lorries?
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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There's the frankenSam firing RIM-7 that should be out there now
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Yes but the sea sparrows have what a range of 10 miles? This was done at long range as they are using standoff weapons e.g. glide bombs. Bet my savings whatever it was is what brought down their AWACS last month.
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If they have no planes left they can't be shot down by the F16s. Masterful.
Soldato
That `frakensam` is either NASAMS or IRIS-T SL a; both are in use in Ukraine are are very effective.
I spent 7 years working in this area and have first hand knowledge and experience. We spend a lot of time and money maintaining our warheads.
Soldato
Out of interest when you say 'spent a lot of money's was that in man hours, equipment or money spent on replacing perishable items?
Soldato
Swapping the AA batteries?
Soldato
Those Duracell M3's are quite pricey!
All of the above. The whole purpose of the site is to support the Nuclear Deterrent, which revolves around the warheads. It is all specialist skills, tooling and materials.
Soldato
The Russians might be incompetent but…
This is on top of the carrier problems earlier in the year.
Time to get the chequebook out. You cannot defend on the cheap.
Trident missile test fails for second time in a row
The UK's nuclear deterrent failed to fire a test missile reportedly landing close to the launch site.
www.bbc.co.uk
This is on top of the carrier problems earlier in the year.
Time to get the chequebook out. You cannot defend on the cheap.
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The Russians might be incompetent but…
Trident missile test fails for second time in a row
The UK's nuclear deterrent failed to fire a test missile reportedly landing close to the launch site.www.bbc.co.uk
This is on top of the carrier problems earlier in the year.
Time to get the chequebook out. You cannot defend on the cheap.
Best ask their mates to give back the £9 Billion handed out for useless PPE
Caporegime
Do they ever test detonate a nuclear warhead? I don't know much about the subject, probably easier for me to read up but, I assume when they designed trident the warheads were aso designed for the missile or were they from an earlier design... Lots of questions. All a bit macabre a discussion probably
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Second time in a row that a test fire has failed from one of our boats though - and I expect people said the same thing back in 2016 when they covered up the failure (although it sounds like that failure mode was different so they may well have solved whatever problem caused that)...
190 successful tests is all well and good, but most of those were some time ago, and the royal navy hasn't had a successful test since 2012 now which is a long time ago. Also seems unclear whether that was a test of a life extended version or an original...
I know public statements aren't going to go into detail on topics like this, but this is a bad look and gives zero confidence - it reads like a face saving lie rather than a commitment to actually getting to the bottom of things.
Soldato
Do they ever test detonate a nuclear warhead? I don't know much about the subject, probably easier for me to read up but, I assume when they designed trident the warheads were aso designed for the missile or were they from an earlier design... Lots of questions. All a bit macabre a discussion probably
No, the CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) stopped that. Only India and Pakistan have tested since, their argument was the tests were in place when the ban came into force. The other was North Korea who just do it anyway.
The PTBT or Partial Test Ban Treaty has been in effect since 1963 and banned testing of warheads in the atmosphere, in space and underwater.
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Do they ever test detonate a nuclear warhead? I don't know much about the subject, probably easier for me to read up but, I assume when they designed trident the warheads were aso designed for the missile or were they from an earlier design... Lots of questions. All a bit macabre a discussion probably
Over 2100 nuclear warheads have been detonated in tests.
The UK is rumoured to use its own warhead on Trident despite the actual missile being made by Lockheed Martin. The also uk claims that the warhead is designed and made in house by us, (the actual info is top secret obviously) but it's rumoured to be so close to a US designed warhead that it's practically the same.
If the missile failed to launch (in this case it flew out of the sub, but the 1st stage booster didn't ignite, so it just flopped into the sea) then it'll be a problem for Lockheed to solve I imagine...
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Floppy missile not launching, its the problem with old equipment, when its needed to perform it may end up as being incapable of a successful launch
We need some better military spec viagra
We need some better military spec viagra
Floppy missile not launching, its the problem with old equipment, when its needed to perform it may end up as being incapable of a successful launch
We need some better military spec viagra
These sorts of things look proper scary when they fail
(Nuclear Catherine wheel, from the 1980s)
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