LONDON — British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps and other top officials were on a Royal Navy nuclear submarine when the test-firing of a Trident II D5 nuclear missile failed last month.

The test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed, for the second time in a row. The latest test of the UK's nuclear deterrent was from HMS Vanguard and was seen by ...

Although firing drills take place regularly, test firings are much rarer, not least because each missile costs about £17m. The previous test firing from a UK submarine, in 2016, also ended in ...

A Trident missile test also failed in 2016, when the submarine HMS Vengeance launched a Trident II D5 missile off the Florida coast. Defense sources told The Guardian in 2017 that the information ...

This video grab released on Wednesday Feb. 21, 2024 by the Ministry of Defence shows a missile firing from HMS Vigilant, which fired an unarmed Trident II (D5) ballistic missile.

It is the second Trident missile failure in a row for the Royal Navy's ageing nuclear weapons fleet after a problem with another test-firing in 2016. The UK has four nuclear-armed submarines.

One memorable case in October 2016 saw the nose of a Trident-family missile from a U.S. test firing was washed ashore on the beach of Man-O-War Cay in the Bahamas, to be reclaimed by the Coast ...

Trident missiles are reliable and nuclear weapons can be fired if needed, government says. On 30 January, first-stage boosters did not ignite and the 60-tonne missile - fitted with dummy warheads ...

In a set of photos released on Monday, U.S. Navy sailors are seen loading Tomahawk missiles onto the Los Angeles -class ...

The test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed, for the second time in a row. The latest test of the UK's nuclear deterrent was from HMS Vanguard and was seen by ...

Reports a test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed for the second time in a row has refocused attention on the UK's nuclear capability. The current Vanguard nuclear ...