despite misfire
\n LONDON
\nThe UK government said Wednesday that it had \u201cabsolute confidence\u201d in its Trident nuclear deterrent system despite a reported missile test failure. Defense minister Grant Shapps admitted to parliament that \u201can anomaly did occur\u201d during an exercise on January 30, following reports that a missile fired from the submarine HMS Vanguard fell into the sea.
\nShapps said in the written statement that it was \u201clongstanding practice\u201d not to comment on such tests, but that it was providing information \u201cin recognition of the level of interest\u201d in the operation. \u201cOn this occasion, an anomaly did occur, but it was event specific and there are no implications for the reliability of the wider Trident missile systems and stockpile,\u201d insisted the minister, who was on board the vessel at the time of the test. \u201cNor are there any implications for our ability to fire our nuclear weapons, should the circumstances arise in which we need to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
despite misfire LONDON The UK government said Wednesday that it had \u201cabsolute confidence\u201d in its Trident nuclear deterrent system despite a reported missile test failure. Defense minister Grant Shapps admitted to parliament that \u201can anomaly did occur\u201d during an exercise on January 30, following reports that a missile fired from the submarine HMS Vanguard fell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n