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Submariner: Trident is “so broken it can’t even do the tests that prove it works”

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Engineering failures on Trident submarine place crew at risk and raise doubts over whether missiles could actually be launched, says whistleblower

A Royal Navy whistleblower has exposed a shocking catalogue of equipment failures, security breaches, and near-miss accidents on board HMS Vanguard, one of the Navy’s nuclear-armed Trident submarines.

William McNeilly, a 25 year old engineering technician, has published an account of a patrol on board HMS Vanguard on the internet (online here and available to download at the bottom of this article), describing in detail a series of alarming incidents and describing the submarine as being “in the worst of the worst condition”.  His account not only puts safety standards in the Trident programme under the spotlight, but also brings into question HMS’s Vanguard’s ability to successfully fire its battery of missiles were the command to launch a nuclear attack ever given.

Read more on McNeilly’s revelations:
Submarine faults bring into question UK’s ability to successfully launch a Trident nuclear strike
‘Massive cover-up’ over UK – France submarine collision
Secret MoD manual acknowledges risks posed by Trident missile fuel

Blog article: HMS Death Trap: Life on board one of the Royal Navy’s Trident submarines

McNeilly’s dossier – an account of his first patrol on board HMS Vanguard – reveals that the ageing submarine was dogged by equipment failures during the patrol.  Safety procedures were regularly disregarded, security procedures were casual, and secret information was accessible to unauthorised personnel…

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