[HN Gopher] Threat to UK Nuclear Deterrent
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       Threat to UK Nuclear Deterrent
        
       Author : zabzonk
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2025-03-05 22:24 UTC (36 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | zabzonk wrote:
       | I hadn't thought of this before but the UK nuclear deterrent is
       | based on US built missiles. The UK builds its own subs and
       | warheads, but the launch vehicle is a US designed and built
       | Trident missile. If Trump carries on the way he's going, these
       | may become unreplaceable/unserviceable.
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       | Now, we could possibly buy the French equivalents, but they would
       | probably not fit/work with the existing UK subs. Or we could
       | build own, at enormous cost.
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       | This potentially severely degrades the UK's defence capability.
       | Do we go back to air-dropped bombs? Maybe Storm Shadow could be
       | adapted?
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       | I find the whole thing very worrying, personally.
        
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