Sunday, January 22, 2017

British PM Theresa May Grilled On Last Year's British Trident Missile Failure



New York Times: Theresa May Is Grilled Over U.K. Missile Test Failure

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain refused to comment on Sunday about the reported failure of an unarmed British Trident missile that was test-fired from a submarine off the coast of Florida last June.

Mrs. May said she had “absolute faith in our Trident missiles” in a television interview with the BBC, but she would not say whether she had known about the failure or whether, as The Sunday Times of London reported, it had been covered up by Downing Street under her predecessor, David Cameron, shortly before the referendum on Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Mrs. May did not mention any missile failure in her first major speech to Parliament on July 18, when she persuaded Parliament to spend up to 40 billion pounds, or about $53 billion then, on four new submarines to keep Britain’s nuclear deterrent up-to-date.

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WNU Editor: This has to be cleared up. $53 billion is not chump change.

More News On British PM Theresa May Refusing  To Answer Questions On Last Year's British Trident Missile Failure

Missile failure off Florida? British leader won’t say -- Washington Post/AP
Britain's May refuses to talk about reported test missile failure -- UPI
Theresa May under pressure over Trident missile test -- BBC
Theresa May 'faith' in Trident after test 'malfunction' -- BBC
British PM faces allegations of knowledge of alleged nuclear misfire -- CSM
Theresa May refuses to answer four times whether she knew about Government 'cover-up' on Trident -- The Independent
Theresa May to face grilling over British Trident nuclear weapon misfire -- The Australian
MoD cannot fall back on usual excuses to explain Trident misfire -- Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian

1 comment:

phill said...

WNU

https://www.armytimes.com/articles/army-your-new-handgun-will-be-a-sig-sauer

It's a 10 year $580 Million contract.