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Kingchoudary
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Post Number: 32294
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 7:28 am: | 
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Peli vunte daridram poyedhi, manchi interesting news chadivetollamu....
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Blazewada
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 7:15 am: |
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London: In a first-ever such accident, a British and a French nuclear submarine, both carrying nuke warheads, collided in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month, but there was no loss of life.
HMS Vanguard, a Royal Navy's Trident class, and French Navy's new Le Triomphant class submarines were both damaged in the incident, but there were no reports of casualties or damages to the nuclear reactor or weapons, the Sun newspaper reported today.
While the British sub has now been towed to Faslane in Scotland for repair, Triomphant limped to Brest with extensive damage to her sonar dome, the paper said.
Both vessels -- between them carrying about 250 sailors -- were reportedly submerged and on separate missions when they crashed on February 3 or 4.
The British Ministry of Defence refused to comment on submarine operations but a spokesman said: "We can confirm that the UK's deterrent capability has remained unaffected at all times and there has been no compromise to nuclear safety." HMS Vanguard is one of four nuclear submarines operated by the British military as part of its Trident system, and one is always on deterrent patrol.
Each vessel is 150 metres long and 13 metres in diameter, and can carry up to 48 nuclear warheads including 16 missiles. |
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