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0 pointsarethuza2y ago0 comments

The UK and US missiles come from the same stockpile though - mind you it does rather remind me on Beatty at Jutland "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today".

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RandomLensman2y ago· 2 in thread

The US seems to get the missiles to work consistently. On the whole, the UK's nuclear deterrence is kind of "ish" anyway.

arethuzaOP2y ago

Yes - it does rather look like the problem is at the UK side of things.

Edit: regarding the "ish" comment one thing that makes the UK deterrent a bit more credible is that they don't have PALs - the crew have everything they need to launch should they decide to.

RandomLensman2y ago

What I meant by "ish" is that having a few submarines isn't a particularly strong way of creating a nuclear deterrence against a large and capable adversary (there is a reason triads evolved) - not that the individual launch capability might not be there.

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