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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by HPsquared on Monday November 10, 2025 @04:18AM (#45874104)
It's a lot of reliance placed on one rather complex system. See "Trident Missile Test Fails for Second Time in a Row" (Feb 2024)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by greedo on Monday November 10, 2025 @01:40PM (#45879238)
Of all the current nuclear weapons delivery systems, Trident is probably the most reliable. Minuteman might be up there due to being a very very mature system, but I would take Trident in a heart beat.

https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2024/03...

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