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It's a myth, there is no US permission needed. We do own missiles it's just that we own them in pool with the US and they are maintained at an American facility. It's cheaper this way.
We use a key launch system, missiles cannot be launched by anyone outside the missile room/bridge onboard the submarine. We rely on the chain of command to launch them alone.
UK defence journal did a debunk piece on this myth last year, I'd have thought by now one of you would have found it.
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We do own missiles it's just that we own them in pool with the US and they are maintained at an American facility. It's cheaper this way.
If you "own" something that needs constant maintenance, and you can't maintain it but have to pay someone else to do so or you can't use the item how truly would you say that you own it?
i.e. if Trump refused to maintain our warheads, or delayed giving them back we'd be filling the pointy end of Tridents with swear words and bricks.
Chain of Command - do you believe (truly) that we'd act independently of the US? That we'd launch on Russia without them?
Dammit
Yes - I was just wondering if this American permission thing is literally that the missile won't launch without a physical permission from US (in some form).