MoD cannot fall back on usual excuses to explain Trident misfire | Ewen MacAskill

When opposition parties press for answers the government cannot dismiss this catastrophic test as trial and errorDefence departments and arms companies can usually explain away embarrassing failures in the development of new military hardware. There is a ready answer: mistakes are an inevitable part of the process of trial and error at the cutting edge of technology.But the Ministry of Defence cannot fall back on such an excuse in the catastrophic test-firing of the UK’s Trident II D5 ball