The media coverage seems a bit weird to me. The primary source was released 12 hours ago, but when I did a bit of research 4 hours ago I only saw a few reports from dubious Chinese sources like this: https://www.zhitongcaijing.com/content/detail/1277768.html
Then about 2 hours ago all major media outlets were covering it.
- So it comes back to Trident?
- When it comes.
- If it works.
- If it wor...
- What do you mean?
- Normally, when new weapons are delivered, the warheads don't fit
the ends of the rockets. That's what happened to Polaris. You know the sort of thing, wiring faults, microchip failure. We couldn't fire Polaris for some years. Cruise is probably the same. Trident might be too.
For context September that year; 'It marked the second time in the last three launchings that one of the $23.7 million missiles had to be destroyed by the safety officer.
The Navy reported about 20 minutes after the 1:45 P.M. launching that the Trident 2 had developed a problem in the second stage and that the range safety officer had sent a signal to blow up the missile to prevent it from veering into populated areas.'
- One of your officials pays farmers to produce surplus food while the next office pays people to destroy the surpluses.
- That's not true!
- No?
- It's not the next office, not even the same floor!
