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Trident whistleblower tells RT he ‘witnessed 4 unreported missile test failures’
Published time: 24 Jan, 2017 17:17Edited time: 25 Jan, 2017 13:44
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Trident Nuclear Submarine, HMS Victorious © Andy Buchanan / Reuters
dossier highlighting a range of safety and security failures aboard Trident submarines in May 2015 – more than a year before the latest mishap.

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EXCLUSIVE: Trident renewal ‘assures Scottish independence,’ says navy whistleblower William McNeilly
The Royal Navy submariner was detained and quietly discharged in June of that year. Senior officers even sought to discredit McNeilly’s claims by portraying him as an ill-informed junior sailor.

Speaking exclusively to RT on Tuesday, McNeilly said he now feels vindicated.

“I warned about this exact event over a year before it happened. I was in the MCC / Missile Control Center during the end of patrol tests in early 2015 and I witnessed with my own eyes the Trident system fail its simulated missile launch tests.”

McNeilly claims to have seen Trident “fail 3 out of 3 WP 186 Missile Compensating Tests” first-hand. He also says a “Battle Readiness Test (BRT) was not even attempted due to seawater in the hydraulic system.”

The whistleblower’s comments come a day after the British government faced questions over a misfire incident that occurred in June of 2016, just weeks before a crucial Parliamentary vote on Trident’s renewal. The US government apparently requested that news of the defective missile be kept secret to prevent mutual embarrassment.

Citing his extensive technical training as a submarine weapons engineer, McNeilly said it was his job “to learn about missile tests, conduct missile tests, pass tests on missile tests, be in the Missile Control Center during missile tests…”

“I had missile tests signed off in my task book. They wouldn’t have been signed off in my task book if I didn’t know anything about them, and clearly I was proven to be right.

“The government attempted to cover up the failed missile test and they covered up all the other information in my Trident report.”

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In his 18-page dossier, released to WikiLeaks in May of 2015, McNeilly offered anecdotal evidence of potentially catastrophic failures that took place during a series of end-of-patrol “shakedown” tests, designed to see whether the weapons system “could have performed a successful launch.”

It was during one such end-of-patrol test that the June 2016 misfire took place.

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Fallon refuses to explain alleged Trident nuke malfunction, as US officials spill the beans
According to McNeilly, the routine tests are vital to determining “if we really were providing the UK’s strategic nuclear deterrent.”

The test McNeilly witnessed was “carried out 3 times and it failed, 3 times.”

“Basically the test showed that the missile compensation system wouldn’t have compensated for the changes in weight of the submarine during missile launches. Which means the missiles would’ve been launched on an unstable platform, if they decided to launch.”

Other readiness exercises carried out at the end of the patrol also went wrong, claims McNeilly.

“Another test was the Battle Readiness Test (BRT), which proves that the muzzle hatches could’ve opened whilst on patrol,” said McNeilly, explaining that “the BRT was cancelled due to the main hydraulic system containing mostly seawater instead of actual hydraulic oil.”

McNeilly has accused the British government of “endangering the public and spending billions upon billions of taxpayers’ money for a system so broken it can’t even do the tests that prove it works.”
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US asked UK to keep failed nuke Trident test secret – report
Published time: 24 Jan, 2017 09:19Edited time: 25 Jan, 2017 13:01
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Fallon refuses to explain alleged Trident nuke malfunction, as US officials spill the beans — RT UK
As Defense Secretary Michael Fallon dodged questions in the Commons over a June 2016 nuclear missile incident, US officials appear to have been openly briefing the American press on key details.

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“It was the [then-President Barack] Obama administration that asked the [then-UK Prime Minister David] Cameron administration not to comment on this,” a source told the paper.

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Whitehall covered up 1st-time failure of Trident ballistic missile test near US coast – report
According to the source, the US administration “may have been worried that there could be similar problems on other missiles.”

“The British submarine successfully carried and launched the missile; the bit that went wrong was the US proprietary technology,” it added.

Responding to questions from Labour and Scottish National Party (SNP) MPs in the House of Commons on Monday, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon repeatedly cited national security concerns to justify his strenuous denials.

While the UK maintains it has operational control of Trident aboard its four nuclear submarines, the missiles are owned by the US and are largely reliant on the Americans for technical support.

The US is likely to have been highly resistant to the idea of sharing news of the defect because Britain's D5 missiles are leased from the same stockpile used by the US military.

The emergency debate on Monday, called by former Labour defense minister Kevan Jones, saw the SNP and some Labour figures launch an offensive over the misfire and apparent cover-up.

In a bizarre twist, MPs pointed out during the debate that while Fallon was refusing to disclose details of the misfire, US officials were openly briefing the American media about the incident.

While the SNP wants nukes removed from Scotland, Labour is split on the issue, with the upper echelons of the party leadership generally opposed to nuclear weapons, while many in the parliamentary party support renewing them.

Both Fallon and Prime Minister Theresa May have issued strenuous denials over the incident. Some attempts have also been made to push blame onto May’s predecessor, David Cameron.

Much of the antagonism centers on how much May knew about the incident before a vital vote on Trident renewal only weeks after the misfire. She confirmed on Monday night that she did know about the incident but failed to disclose the information.

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USA to UK :: Hey man for ****'s sake tell us before your missile test on trident, you would screw us with your underwater junks

UK wanted to destroy USA. The joke of our century
UK is amazing.

Perfidious Albion (England) is just pathetic irrelevant country. England was at it's best during times of English slave trade and English drug trade. Now England is just a joke. Iran is much more important than England. Poland too is more important than England. England is sooooo desperate that it established troll brigade (77 Troll Brigade):

British military’s online trolling unit fails to attract enough recruits
Published time: 3 Jan, 2017 17:24Edited time: 6 Jan, 2017 09:52

The British military’s secretive internet trolling unit has failed to meet its recruitment targets despite a high-profile campaign, according to new figures.
Freedom of information requests by the Register show that the much-hyped unit is 40 percent understrength.

The unit is meant to be 448-strong with 182 full-time service personnel combined with 266 reservists. The current strength is just 276.

This means the 77 Brigade, which is named after a famous WW2 jungle fighting unit, has a shortfall of 29 regular personnel and 143 part-timers. The figures suggest that in the last 12 months only 125 people were recruited.

A Ministry of Defense (MoD) spokesperson told the Register’s Gareth Corfield the army is “pleased with the rate of growth of the Brigade and that it is attracting trained personnel of the right knowledge, skill and experience required for its roles” and that the service had “no set recruiting targets” for the unit.

“The shortfall in the reserve numbers is partly due to the recent increase in liability... but is, in the main, due to the fact 77 Brigade is a new formation and it takes time for this capability to be built up,” he added.

The Brigade, which the Register says is aimed at opposing hostile social media by “Islamist terrorists, Russian hackers and state-backed fake news and propaganda agencies such as Russia Today (RT) and Iran’s Press TV” was renamed in 2015 to invoke the famous unit – also known as the Chindits - which fought the Japanese in the Far East.

It is also reportedly used to undermine Britain’s enemies by spreading rumors and falsehoods to destabilize them politically.

Last year saw the unit sign up a major celebrity scalp in the form of Parachute Regiment officer-turned-heartthrob explorer Levison Wood.

The Afghanistan veteran who famously walked the Nile for one of his TV shows said at the time the unit is “not about infantry tactics, it is about winning over the hearts and minds. It is fascinating stuff.”

Source: https://www.rt.com/uk/372575-army-cyber-warriors-recruiting/

The last bit of real major influence Britain had, which was its powerful position in the EU, will soon be gone as well.

"Great" "Britain" itself will soon be gone as Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland and Cornwall will free themselves from the yoke of England. England must let Scotland be Scotland. England must stop suppressing people of Scotland.

 

[Tps43]

خخخخخخخخ
نمی دونم که آیا بخندم یا گریه کنم
Hahahhaha I dont know If I to laugh or to cry

 

[Beny Karachun]

That was a great confession! Thanks for your truthfulness. Everyone in the region knows that you don't have any respect for other countries sovereignty and that's the exact source of problem between Israel and rest of the region.



Iran doesn't have any anti-aircraft batteries in Syria. Factually, we don't have any heavy arms there of any kind so Iran could not claim to do anything about the bombardment. Iran brought Russia in for the exact same reason: Covering Syria's air force shortcomings.

That warning was in response to US and its allies bombing a Syrian post saying they made a mistake. That bombardment actually caused the rebellions who were backed by US to gain ground. Syria had intercepted communications showing that the rebellions were aware of the "mistake" going to happen soon. So Russia warned them if they do something similar again they will shoot them down. I don't see where Israel is involved in this but if you like think it was for you then fine.

I don't speak for Russians, but if you think Russian's air force with more than 1000 active jet fighters is scared of 300 or so jets of yours, then fine.

And lastly, please be a man about your bombardments and claim responsibility and let's see if you get a response or not? You are not at war with Syria, so you have no right to bombard them.



Yes and then rushed to say you didn't know he was inside that convoy. Sounds like an honest apology to me which I think Iran accepted, or maybe not. You know, Iran is much more subtle in its moves and has a owe full long memory. Again, shooting at others from behind your borders is not an act of power or bravery in my opinion.

Wait, I needed to confess that? you could have asked me and I would answer that no, we don't have any respect for any country in the middle east other than the ones that we signed a peace treaty with, and even then we wont hesitate to bomb any forces that would threat us from within those countries.

Of course you don't have, first you have to cover all of your airspace before you can cover other countries.

They should be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rimon_20

5 Russian aircraft flown by Russian pilots down, 0 Israeli down.

Why would we claim responsibility? Isn't it obvious enough? Who else would strike Hezbollah, along with Iranian and Syrian troops and generals? Or weapons for Hezbollah? When we don't claim responsibility we are immune to any sanction threats. Yes, we are technically at war with Syria, since 1982, and we don't have to ask for any right to bomb them.

Now would you please explain to this @Beny Karachun why Russia has not used its batteries in Syria to shoot any of Israeli jets down? I did my best to say there is no point to shoot down an aircraft that has not even entered Syrian airspace. But maybe you can explain it better.

Feel free to add up 8 more airstrikes since 2016. No Russian, Syrian or Hezbollah retaliation

 

[vostok]

Thanks for your clarification @vostok

Now would you please explain to this @Beny Karachun why Russia has not used its batteries in Syria to shoot any of Israeli jets down? I did my best to say there is no point to shoot down an aircraft that has not even entered Syrian airspace. But maybe you can explain it better.

As far as I know, there ia an agreement between Russia and Israel and any Israeli action against these or those forces in Syria, first of all are discussed with the Russian military.

 

[Arminkh]

As far as I know, there ia an agreement between Russia and Israel and any Israeli action against these or those forces in Syria, first of all are discussed with the Russian military.

@Beny Karachun here is why nobody hits you.

Wait, I needed to confess that? you could have asked me and I would answer that no, we don't have any respect for any country in the middle east other than the ones that we signed a peace treaty with, and even then we wont hesitate to bomb any forces that would threat us from within those countries.

Of course you don't have, first you have to cover all of your airspace before you can cover other countries.

They should be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rimon_20

5 Russian aircraft flown by Russian pilots down, 0 Israeli down.

Why would we claim responsibility? Isn't it obvious enough? Who else would strike Hezbollah, along with Iranian and Syrian troops and generals? Or weapons for Hezbollah? When we don't claim responsibility we are immune to any sanction threats. Yes, we are technically at war with Syria, since 1982, and we don't have to ask for any right to bomb them.

And tell me what would Israel do If for example Syria or Hezbollah would retaliate with firing a high precision ballistic missile? Would you be a man about it and tell the world yes we started first and they retaliated, or would you go crying to your big dadi and say look! Those bad boys fired missile at us, they are such a terrorist! Get them for us please.

Your enemies are not fools. They know it is hard to prove it was Israel who did it in a country that every body is firing mortars and rockets at everyone else. So don't take it personally.

 

[Beny Karachun]

@Beny Karachun here is why nobody hits you.



And tell me what would Israel do If for example Syria or Hezbollah would retaliate with firing a high precision ballistic missile? Would you be a man about it and tell the world yes we started first and they retaliated, or would you go crying to your big dadi and say look! Those bad boys fired missile at us, they are such a terrorist! Get them for us please.

Your enemies are not fools. They know it is hard to prove it was Israel who did it in a country that every body is firing mortars and rockets at everyone else. So don't take it personally.

There was no agreement between Russia and Israel, Russia clearly stated that anybody that will attack Assad and his forces, his fighters would be shot down, Israel did it many times over the years without any aircraft lost.

What high precision ballistic missile? The whole purpose of these bombings are to destroy those "high precision" ballistic missiles, your Fateh 110 has 100 meter CEP, that's not high precision anyways!
We will stop any weapon smuggling to Hezbollah and will bomb anyone that is considered a threat.

Our enemies are fools and we outsmarted them once and will always outsmart them, that's why we simply don't claim responsibility.

 

[Pakistan First]

Iran isn't a power and it surely isn't stronger than Israel, France, the UK and China&Japan are not stronger than Russia.

Need a hanky?

Iran has never done anything to change the behavior of anyone, its all Russia, Russia is like your big brother and you are the annoying 10 year old that hides behind him.

If you think you have more power than Israel, which even Russia is afraid of shooting down our aircraft even after they threatened to destroy any aircraft that will bomb Assad, you are dreaming.


Describe third generation nuclear weapons and how do you know what nuclear weapons we have?

Our Mossad has and is operating both in the US and Britain, not the opposite.

While Iran doesn't depend on Russia for it's existence and security...... Israel certainly does depend on US taxpayers' money to survive. Do you want me to tell you how much funds has US been giving Israel during the last two decades? Do you?

 

[HariPrasad]

Iran isn't a power and it surely isn't stronger than Israel, France, the UK and China&Japan are not stronger than Russia.

You are perhaps talking of Military power. India is definitely stronger than Germany and Japan in Military power but still ranked behind them. They may have different criterion for evaluation.

There was no agreement between Russia and Israel, Russia clearly stated that anybody that will attack Assad and his forces, his fighters would be shot down, Israel did it many times over the years without any aircraft lost.

What high precision ballistic missile? The whole purpose of these bombings are to destroy those "high precision" ballistic missiles, your Fateh 110 has 100 meter CEP, that's not high precision anyways!
We will stop any weapon smuggling to Hezbollah and will bomb anyone that is considered a threat.

Our enemies are fools and we outsmarted them once and will always outsmart them, that's why we simply don't claim responsibility.

This is simply great. Our people lack in this instinct.

 

[Beny Karachun]

Need a hanky?


While Iran doesn't depend on Russia for it's existence and security...... Israel certainly does depend on US taxpayers' money to survive. Do you want me to tell you how much funds has US been giving Israel during the last two decades? Do you?

1% of our annual GDP isn't something that we depend on, in fact, if America will stop the aid, we will be able to develop our own industry by buying a lot more from it.
Yes, I know, and its incomparable with Israel's total GDP during the last two decades.

 

[Arminkh]

Our enemies are fools and we outsmarted them once and will always outsmart them, that's why we simply don't claim responsibility.

You know if all of your people and leaders think the same way, then I say Iran should not give a damn about Israel at all. And I think it already doesn't.