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FailureToCommunicate

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1. Wait, what?!? You mean sometimes they don't work? All the billions spent and they

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sun Jan 22, 2017, 07:29 PM

Jan 2017

malfuntion? And then it's covered up? Well...

Edited to add: I hope the Brits TOLD us they were testing a launch, or we could've repeated the scenerio we had with Boris Yeltsin in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

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No 10 covered up Trident missile fiasco [View all] bananas Jan 2017 OP

Wait, what?!? You mean sometimes they don't work? All the billions spent and they FailureToCommunicate Jan 2017 #1

Nothing to worry about... Shipwack Jan 2017 #7

Thank you. One fewer nightmare to bear. FailureToCommunicate Jan 2017 #8

I noticed a lot of the headlines about this are being scrubbed of the words 'off Florida coast'. tenorly Jan 2017 #2

"off Florida's coast in June veered off course and may have headed toward the U.S." progree Jan 2017 #3

I hate when that happens. bananas Jan 2017 #4

Absolutely. tenorly Jan 2017 #5

Article from The Guardian ( from much earlier today.) CottonBear Jan 2017 #6