A SUBMARINE captain has been sacked for making a sex video while in command of nuclear missiles.
The officer was kicked out of the Royal Navy after top brass saw the X-rated footage.
He was in command of a Vanguard-class nuclear submarine armed with Trident Two doomsday weapons.
The captain shared the graphic film with a junior sailor who served aboard the same submarine.
Crewmates claimed the pair had an illicit physical relationship when the £4billion sub was at sea.
However, a Royal Navy source said sex on board did not form part of their investigation.
Navy chiefs accused the submarine captain of sharing X-rated selfies as well.
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The officer — who had met Princess Anne and was made an OBE for top-secret work — had moved on to a desk job when the footage and photographs were revealed.
He was immediately suspended before being sacked shortly afterwards under a “zero tolerance policy” to sexually unacceptable behaviour.
The scandal is another major blow to the Navy amid a chronic shortage of submarine staff.
The officer had passed the gruelling Perisher course to win command of a nuclear-powered submarine.
He was one of the youngest officers to captain a hunter-killer vessel before taking over a Vanguard-class, known as a “bomber boat”.
The Royal Navy has four nuclear-armed submarines, with a vessel always at sea in readiness to launch against Britain’s enemies in response to a nuclear attack.
The Vanguard sex footage follows claims that a different submarine captain put his manhood in the pocket of a female sub-lieutenant on board.
And in 2017, a sub captain and his deputy were accused of having affairs with two junior female officers on board HMS Vigilant.
The Royal Navy told The Sun last night: “All forms of unacceptable behaviour are taken extremely seriously and anything which falls short of the highest standards will not be tolerated.
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“Anyone who is found culpable will be held accountable for their actions, regardless of their rank or status.”
