Il marinaio della Royal Navy arrestato per la bufala bomba sul sottomarino nucleare
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/14/royal-navy-sailor-arrested-over-bomb-hoax-nuclear-sub/
di BestButtons
Il marinaio della Royal Navy arrestato per la bufala bomba sul sottomarino nucleare
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/14/royal-navy-sailor-arrested-over-bomb-hoax-nuclear-sub/
di BestButtons
10 commenti
Article contents:
*By Albert Tait,14 Jul 2025 – 08:35AM BST*
A Royal Navy sailor was reportedly arrested over a bomb hoax on a Trident submarine.
The Petty Officer on HMS Vanguard is claimed to have caused a full emergency response after calling in a bomb warning to the 16,000-tonne submarine’s main control room.
His alleged threat, believed to have been a prank, is said to have triggered a lockdown at HMNB Clyde, the navy’s headquarters in Scotland where nuclear-armed submarines are kept.
A bomb squad was reportedly called to the scene in Faslane.
An anonymous source told The Sun: “The suspect was working in the rear of the boat, in the engineering control room, and allegedly called up front to the main control room and claimed there was a bomb on board.“It’s not clear if he lost the plot or if it was a stupid prank that went horribly wrong. The person who took the call believed it was credible and triggered a full emergency response.
**Under investigation**
“They did a quick draw and the base piped orders to the Royal Marines to guard the jetty and the submarine hatches to make sure no one could come on or off.”
A Royal Navy spokesman said: “We can confirm that a member of the Royal Navy is under investigation by the Defence Serious Crime Command for a bomb hoax.”
The £4 billion submarine re-entered service as part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent fleet last year after a seven-year refit in Plymouth.
Last January, it was chosen to carry out Britain’s first nuclear missile test in eight years, but the Trident nuclear missile misfired and crashed into the ocean after what the Ministry of Defence called an “anomaly”.
The failure prompted questions about the effectiveness and efficiency of Britain’s nuclear deterrent.
They can’t swim, they attract enemy radar, they attract sharks, they ring in bomb hoaxes.
What a moron. Why would you do that to your oppos, whilst you’re onboard! Or when the emergency stations is called, own up rapidly!!? What a soon to be unemployed/ in the glass house twat
Secret 100% effective trick to cut your tour short HQ do *not* want you to know about!
Scary that someone so stupid was working on a nuclear sub
How many stories is that now about poor behaviour at Faslane/Clyde bases? Does it really need to become a security risk before they start dealing with it?
I feel like this is actual terrorism, but no-one threw paint on a plane so this story should die down quickly
Do you know what’s really funny, the dude who called in the bomb threat is probably mad at the guy who took the call did his job and took it seriously.
I mean technically they were correct surely. Isn’t the point of that submarine to have a number of very large bombs on board? /s
Worrying someone that daft got into that position.
His only hope is that his “just banter, innit?” defence holds up at his tribunal.