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The United Kingdom's current lease of Trident missiles from the United States and the potential implications of developing an independent production capability.
agreements — notably the (MDA) and the — make the British materially cheaper and technically feasible for while constraining full operational independence and exposing the UK to political leverage; th...
to maintain and produce SLBMs would be a major national industrial project likely to take most of a decade and cost at least several billion pounds — and plausibly tens of billions — depending on ambi...
If Washington suddenly withheld maintenance or components, ’s would remain "operationally independent" in the narrow sense that the Prime Minister can order a launch without external permission, but t...