Crew from HMS Vengeance, a British Royal Navy Vanguard class Trident Ballistic Missile Submarine © David Moir / Reuters
The Australian/The Times: US urged Britain to keep trident blunder secret
The US government asked Britain to keep details of a botched nuclear missile test secret, a source told The Times.
Officials from the Obama administration asked David Cameron’s government not to comment on the malfunction during a test of the Trident nuclear deterrent in June, it is understood.
The £17 million unarmed D5 missile is believed to have been obliterated in an automatic self-destruct sequence when it was diverted from its course after being launched from HMS Vengeance off Florida. A failure in the data communications system of the US-made weapon system has been blamed. Lockheed Martin, based in Maryland, builds and maintains the missiles.
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WNU Editor: This may be a bigger problem than what they are reporting …. Trident whistleblower tells RT he ‘witnessed 4 unreported missile test failures’ (RT).
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More News On Reports That The Obama Administration Asked Britain To Keep Details Of A Failed Nuclear Missile Test Secret
Trident: Barack Obama administration asked David Cameron to keep failed nuclear missile test launch secret — The Independent
US asked UK to keep failed nuke Trident test secret – report — RT
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US official confirms Trident missile failure — CNN
