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by pjc50
848 days ago
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Famously, the USN had the reverse problem with torpedoes in WW2: they worked in testing but were extremely unreliable in live situations, and it took a while before HQ believed that the problem was real. With Trident, either there will be no live usage, or there will be no UK left to do anything about the failure of the second strike weapons. |
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IIRC, this was a problem for Germany as well. It was the magnetic detonators on both sides .. ?
> With Trident, either there will be no live usage, or there will be no UK left to do anything about the failure of the second strike weapons.
.. in the event of trident failures, you mean. The third possibility is that they do work, and there still is no UK, but at least there is less of everyone. So fun to think about /s