Submarine farse published

As a Royal the standing joke was never, never, never let a matelot loose with a gun. Give him/her a ship, boat or call them what you want and they do their best to do their worst. Who gave miss world the wheel of the Nottingham and stood back in amazement when she found the only rock in an ocean? Who found a massive sand bank in the way of the Astute? Or hit the bridge on the Thames? Jolly Jack!!!

Perhaps it is fortunate that Stanley Park has more boats than the Royal.

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Accidental Leak Of British Nuclear Submarine Secrets

Defence chiefs have been forced into an embarrassing emergency retraction after secret information about the UK's nuclear-powered submarines was inadvertently published on a website.

A technical error meant sections of a Ministry of Defence report that appeared to have been blacked out could in fact be read by anyone who copied and pasted them into another document.

The offending paragraphs have now been properly covered up [PDF] but were reported to have included expert opinion about the fleet's ability to withstand a catastrophic accident.

The Tory MP Patrick Mercer, who served in the army, told the newspaper the information would be "hugely interesting" to Britain's enemies and its release "potentially catastrophic".

The document involved was an assessment drawn up by the head of the defence nuclear safety regulator, Commodore Andrew McFarlane, over options for the reactors in future submarines to replace the Trident fleet. Read more at www.modoracle.com

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