The second failed launch in a row – after a misfire in 2016 – happened while Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was on board HMS Vanguard to witness the test. It is the second failed test since ...

He told BBC News: "There could be a variety of explanations for something going wrong in what HMS Vanguard was doing in test-launching this missile, and there isn't enough information on what ...

A British nuclear missile test launch failed at a site off the coast ... during the test on board the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Vanguard, a UK Ministry of Defense spokesperson said Wednesday ...

The Sun reported that a dummy Trident 2 missile was propelled into the air by compressed gas in its launch tube, but that its so-called first stage boosters did not ignite. HMS Vanguard was ...

Officials issued a warning to shipping as nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard sailed into the Atlantic this week. It is the first time the UK has test fired a missile since a botched launch in 2016.

Shapps was accompanied onboard HMS Vanguard by Britain’s top sailor ... II was propelled into the air by compressed gas in its launch tube, but that its first-stage boosters did not ignite.

The £4 billion HMS Vanguard, which recently underwent a £500 million upgrade that took three years longer than planned, will carry out the launch for its final test to re-enter service as part ...

Essentially, this means that the country in question has the ability to launch nuclear weapons from ... Britain’s HMS Vanguard, the first of her namesake, was launched in 1993.