Sun: UK Navy fails to launch Trident II ballistic missile
2/21/2024, 1:40:59 AM
Highlights: Sun: UK Navy fails to launch Trident II ballistic missile. The UK has launched a search operation to retrieve the missile from the seabed. In the summer, a Patriot air defense missile exploded during testing in Taiwan. Also in Japan, an explosion occurred during testing of the Epsilon S solid-fuel launch vehicle. The Trident missile misfired abruptly and fell into the ocean a few meters from the British nuclear submarine from which it was launched, the publication says. The head of the British Ministry of Defense, Grant Shapps, was on board.
The British Navy conducted an unsuccessful launch of a Trident II intercontinental ballistic missile from the nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard.
The Sun writes about this.
“The Trident missile misfired abruptly and fell into the ocean a few meters from the British nuclear submarine from which it was launched,” the publication says.
According to the newspaper, the head of the British Ministry of Defense, Grant Shapps, was on board the submarine.
It is noted that the UK has launched a search operation to retrieve the missile from the seabed.
In the summer, a Patriot air defense missile exploded during testing in Taiwan.
Also in Japan, an explosion occurred during testing of the Epsilon S solid-fuel launch vehicle.