A Trident missile test dramatically failed recently ... which can supposedly be up to 7,500 miles away from the launch site. Those on the submarines cannot communicate with the outside world ...

READ MORE: Grant Shapps insists ministers have 'absolute confidence' in UK's nuclear deterrent after Trident missile sinks with a 'plop' in the Atlantic during failed test launch from Royal Navy ...

British tests of Trident missiles are rare ... "Of course it is embarrassing when the launch is announced in advance and the defence secretary is on board. It doesn't look good." ...

A Cold War nuclear missile will remain in service for a total of 94 years thanks to a US$383 million US Navy contract, with Lockheed Martin to modernize the submarine-launched Trident II missile and ...

Lockheed Martin will begin designing a new version of the Trident IID5 Life Extension (LE) missile under a $383 million U.S. Navy contract announced on Jan. 31. The Trident IID5LE2 is expected to ...

Fears of an accidental nuclear weapons launch have re-emerged after the test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine failed for the second time in a row. The failure came days ...

Reports of a failed Trident missile launch have all sorts of political and security implications – but they don’t necessarily spell catastrophe.