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Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The UK government said Wednesday that it had \u201cabsolute confidence\u201d in its Trident nuclear deterrent system despite a reported missile test failure.<\/p>\n Defense minister Grant Shapps admitted to parliament that \u201can anomaly did occur\u201d during an exercise on January 30, following reports that a missile fired from the submarine HMS Vanguard fell into the sea.<\/p>\n Shapps said in the written statement that it was \u201clongstanding practice\u201d not to comment on such tests, but that it was providing information \u201cin recognition of the level of interest\u201d in the operation.<\/p>\n \u201cOn this occasion, an anomaly did occur, but it was event specific and there are no implications for the reliability of the wider Trident missile systems and stockpile,\u201d insisted the minister, who was on board the vessel at the time of the test.<\/p>\n It is believed to be the second failed launch in a row.<\/p>\n Despite the setback, Shapps said that the test \u201creaffirmed the effectiveness of the UK\u2019s nuclear deterrent, in which the government has absolute confidence.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Trident missile system remains the most reliable weapons system in the world, having successfully completed more than 190 tests,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cThe UK\u2019s resolve and capability to use its nuclear weapons, should we ever need to do so, remains beyond doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n But the opposition Labour party called the reports \u201cconcerning.\u201d<\/p>\n The 13-meter-long Trident missile, which can aim at targets up to 4,000 miles away, are fired underwater from submarines, with boosters supposed to ignite when the weapons reach the surface.<\/p>\n Each Vanguard-class submarine can hold eight Trident rockets, but they are due to be replaced in the 2030s by the larger Dreadnought-class of vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 The UK government said Wednesday that it had \u201cabsolute confidence\u201d in its Trident nuclear deterrent system despite a reported missile test failure. Defense minister Grant Shapps admitted to parliament that \u201can anomaly did occur\u201d during an exercise on January 30, following reports that a missile fired from the submarine …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14648,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions\/14648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}