Internet mistake reveals RN and USN sub secrets

[Oberon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13107413

Classified FAIL.

[Feuer Frei!]

Heads are gonna roll.

[Catfish]

Well i guess the most embarassing thing about this "unmasking" is, those reactors cuurently used even in the new A-class are unsafe and essentially 30 years old, in construction


"We take nuclear security very seriously and we are doing everything possible to prevent a recurrence of this."
He does not mean the reactors, though.

[Platapus]

Sounds like someone failed to follow appropriate sanitization procedures. This will probably adversely affect someone's career.

The only question the MoD needs to answer is "who is the lowest ranking guy we can blame this on?"

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

... apparently, someone forgot to notify Google to update their cached copy, so the blacked out text is still there...

I must also say, having read them, that the blacked out parts do not contain anything that can be reasonably construed as sensitive, just perhaps inconvenient. Yet another case of over-classification at work, to put it bluntly.

[Fish In The Water]

The Ministry of Defence has admitted that secret information about the UK's nuclear powered submarines was made available on the internet by mistake.

Oops...

As stated previously, some junior chap will take the fall. Aside from the man overboard, the whole thing would be kind of funny if it wasn't so serious.

[papa_smurf]

Epic fail

[Schroeder]

Sometimes I wonder whether half of the British forces are actually working for the other side.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

Sometimes I wonder whether half of the British forces are actually working for the other side.

Me too

[gimpy117]

oh heaven forbid we know what kind of reactor (that could melt down) is steaming below us at any minute. Personally, I think the public should know, considering the effects on the ocean if there was a major accident.

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

Sometimes I wonder whether half of the British forces are actually working for the other side.

There was nothing sensitive in those blacked out portions. Here's one:

Control of submarine depth. For all submarine operations, depth is controlled by a combination of hydrostatic lift (by adjusting the ballast of the submarine) and dynamic lift (using speed through the water and control surfaces). US established practice is to deliver a high reliability of propulsion, from the main propulsion system, even under reactor fault conditions. UK practice in current class submarines is to accept a much lower reliability from the main propulsion system, and to back this up with a very low power (but high reliability) emergency propulsion system. This system will not provide sufficient dynamic lift, so safety is achieved by procedural controls constraining the combinations of speed and depth, backed up by use of ballast systems (but this may not be effective under all circumstances).