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It's a lot of reliance placed on one rather complex system. See "Trident Missile Test Fails for Second Time in a Row" (Feb 2024) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-
by HPsquared 1y ago
It's a lot of reliance placed on one rather complex system. See "Trident Missile Test Fails for Second Time in a Row" (Feb 2024)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395
- greedo 1y agoOf all the current nuclear weapons delivery systems, Trident is probably the most reliable. Minuteman might be up there due to being a very very mature system, but I would take Trident in a heart beat. https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2024/03/the-uks-trident-launch-failure-a-cause-for-concern/#:~:text=Statistics%20matter,a%20failure%20rate%20of%202.6%25. https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2024/03...