The test submarine sank when they fired the test missile.
The company has a $5.7 billion contract to built 30 test missiles, including the one destroyed today, and 52 missiles to be deployed on submarines.
He will be even more surprised to discover that his test missile is armed.
The real test missiles had been detonated, but the computer was instructed to continue the simulation if such an event happened.
The test missile must have failed before it engaged the target.
The test missile has dropped into the ocean.
This is a simple case of a malfunctioning test missile.
Each test missile was hand built and very expensive to produce, causing the program to suffer cost overruns.
"It depends partly on whether the radiation becomes any more intense beyond the point reached by our test missile last night."
You might fire hundreds of test missiles, but even if not a single one were intercepted, what would that prove?
