Sun: UK Navy fails to launch Trident II ballistic missile

2024-02-21T01:40:59.219Z

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.