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?
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 didn't realise that there was only one place on earth that could service my car, and that if I didn't service it regularly I'd have no option but to dispose of it very very carefully indeed, at once.
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?