[az_gila]

"A spokesman for the command says investigators believe a faulty circuit board at a control center was to blame. The spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel John Thomas, says experts found that the same type of part failed at two other Air Force missile control centers in the late 1990s."

So, if that is the case, it should be all of two minutes work to verify.

Right?

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Depends how old the boards are...

Perhaps they had to go and use an E-Bay “Buy-it-now” auction to get replacements, just like NASA had to for some of their old equipment...:^)

[Hardraade]

Depends how old the boards are...

No.

Seen same board fail like this before?

Test board for same fail.

If no fail, it's something else. Obviously, this time it's something else.

So why present the old fail?

Need to calm people down.