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To: Gondring

Nope.

“this amounts to 25% of the UK’s nuclear deterrent”

He meant that the 16 missiles - which happen to be Tridents in this story - are 25% of the UK’s TOTAL deterrent of the nuclear type, not Trident type specifically. When he mentioned land-based he again wrote nothing about any of them being Trident.


109 posted on 02/15/2009 7:07:55 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

You’re going back to the OP and missing the point.

In any case, the UK has never fielded a land-based nuclear force.


114 posted on 02/15/2009 7:28:40 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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