No, not those ones https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...each-other-due-to-faulty-rewiring-say-sources
Was about to say what was more concerning was that warships were made out of what appears to be fibreglass but then they're mine hunters so that explains it.
These boats cost millions. Surely they could have found a couple of hundred quid for reversing sensors FFS!
Oops! Navy launches Trident nuke missile test (not armed) and after a fine take off, the thing turns round in mid-air and plunges back down into the drink, narrowly missing our Jolly Jack Tars in their leaky old tub HMS Conflagration. Guidance systems had been outsourced to Fujitsu apparently.
In the grand scheme of things it's nothing to worry about. The number of failed tests compared to the number of successful ones for the whole system is favourable. I can't really see what the purpose of pasting it all over the front pages is though. The main point of Trident is as a deterent. If you given the other side an idea it doesn't work then they make take a punt. If it's an official source & policy that has released this then they need to think again. If it's a leak then imho it's a prettey serious crime. As an aside, back in the day I knew a chap who'd served with people on the subs. He suggested that more than a couple stationed in the conning tower had gone slightly loopy due to the constant water rushing noises. He also suggested that the US built part of the systems were all put together with Imperial screws and bolts and the rest manufactured by the brits metric, so engineers needed 2 sets of tools. I've no doubt that we have some of the best if not the best trained and prepared servicemen in the world, we just don't appear to equip and support them wonderfully.
I remember some Irish stand up, years ago, with this zinger. 'I never understood the point of bomb testing. WeeeeeeeeBooom! "Ooh, that would have been a good one!"
From an Irish stand up, on being asked where he is from. Are you from that place that’s always being bombed? No, that place isn’t there anymore. Where are you from? West of Ireland. Where’s that, in the North or the South?
