DDS investigators on the damaged SS Foresight say the weapon bay explosion may have been due to a TPM activating before it had reached the firing position in the ship's launcher. The Freedom 41B MCS had been conducting combat exercises at the time of the explosion. Its DDS practice to push the firing rate of the TPM launcher to "beyond the maximum" in combat situations where every fraction of a second counts, missiles active microseconds early before the round reaches the launch rail so it can fire instantly it arrives on the rail.
It may be the missile that exploded on Foresight was activated a few microseconds too early so was not on the launch rail exactly when the motor ignited. DDS Engineering have issued an advisory to the fleet to not conduct any launches at this extreme firing rate until further investigations take place.
