Ross365
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This second failure looks really bad. It seems that the missile was ejected from the submerged submarine successfully (using high-pressure steam?), but even when clear of the surface, the booster motor did not ignite, and it fell back in to the sea.
This is quite unlike the last failed launch, where the missile was flying, but just went towards the USA rather than out across the eastern Atlantic.
They are saying that this latest failure was "event-specific", which is a term that I've never heard before . Given that they cannot yet have recovered the sunken missile, I tend to think it means that something went wrong in the submarine. You have to wonder whether somebody forgot to attend to some safety-inhibit mechanism intended to prevent accidental ignition before the missile was outside the boat? If that is the case, some Naval careers may just have been...blemished.
There's a line in a play that says, "to lose one parent is unlucky, to lose two parents sounds like carelessness". Same with nuclear missiles?
I wonder how the 'Sun' found out so quickly? You'd have to assume that the MoD (and the Americans) would have wanted to keep that very quiet.
This is quite unlike the last failed launch, where the missile was flying, but just went towards the USA rather than out across the eastern Atlantic.
They are saying that this latest failure was "event-specific", which is a term that I've never heard before . Given that they cannot yet have recovered the sunken missile, I tend to think it means that something went wrong in the submarine. You have to wonder whether somebody forgot to attend to some safety-inhibit mechanism intended to prevent accidental ignition before the missile was outside the boat? If that is the case, some Naval careers may just have been...blemished.
There's a line in a play that says, "to lose one parent is unlucky, to lose two parents sounds like carelessness". Same with nuclear missiles?
I wonder how the 'Sun' found out so quickly? You'd have to assume that the MoD (and the Americans) would have wanted to keep that very quiet.