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Old 5th Apr 2016, 17:21
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Genghis the Engineer
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Originally Posted by Lordflasheart
Completely flummoxed by Mr Arbuthnot's words quoted from Hansard in Orac's post No 8 – Tried to get me 'ed around the idea of the Vigilant T.1 conducting 'sub-strategic' missions - Well it was a good lunch with the Major . Once I'd worked out Mr Arbuthnot was actually referring to a boat, I perked up, had a quick shufti at Orac's link to the Trident Modernisation (38 pp – full read later) and found this site – which helped me with 'sub-strategic' and might help the OP's task.

United Kingdom Nuclear Forces

BTW fantaman – will you be talking to work colleagues or the W.I or are you on a learned study course ?


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I ran the latter part of the Vigilant T1 certification programme and can assure everybody, without fear of breaching the official secrets act, that it lacked a nuclear delivery capability.

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