For the first time in 8 years: Britain will start a nuclear rocket - media

According to journalists, the test is the last obstacle to HMS Vanguard again entered the system as part of the British nuclear restraint. The United Kingdom is going to carry out a nuclear rocket test that will be the first after an unsuccessful attempt in 2016. About it reports the edition of The Sun. In the next few days, the royal naval fleet of the United Kingdom plans to test nuclear weapons.

Official warnings for navigation were released in connection with the entrance of the HMS Vanguard atomic submarine to the Atlantic on the current week. According to the newspaper, after the seven -year repair in Plymouth, the submarine plans to carry out the test start of the naked missile. This experiment is the last step before returning HMS Vanguard to the role of a part of the British nuclear restraint fleet.

The HMS Vanguard submarine has the ability to transport up to 16 Trident 2 missiles, each of which can be armed with several British -made warheads. The power of these warheads exceeds the weapons dropped during the Second World War in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan more than 20 times. It is projected that the submarine will be able to launch one naked missile from a distance of 90 km from the eastern coast of the United States.

The US Geospatial Intelligence Agency has released a warning for navigation, which indicated a projected rocket course for a collision in the Middle Atlantic. The rocket must overcome about 6,000 km before falling into the sea between Brazil and West Africa. It should be reminded that on January 26, the media wrote that the United States plans to place nuclear weapons in the UK.