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thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 5 days agoThat’s not actually correct. The missiles (the rocket part) are indeed leased from the US, and the maintenance every few years is thus done by them - which keeps the cost down. The warheads are the UKs.
A freshly serviced trident missile should be good for 5-7 years (although they currently get serviced more frequently).
If the UK falls out with the US then we have a number of years to either build or own replacement or buy/lease them off another country - France for example has several options in this space that could be easily adapted.
We are where we are because nobody could imagine the US going rogue like this, a failure of imagination for sure but our nukes are in fact in our control
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lemmus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s good to know, thanks for pointing that out. You’re certainly correct about a failure of imagination. Would be interesting to see the fallout if the UK tried to diversify its missile options.