Submarine-launched ballistic missile (redirect from SLBMs)
A submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is a ballistic missile capable of being launched from submarines. Modern variants usually deliver multiple...
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Trident, also known as the Trident nuclear programme or Trident nuclear deterrent, covers the development, procurement and operation of nuclear weapons...
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The UGM-96 Trident I, or Trident C4, was an American submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale,...
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The UGM-133A Trident II, or Trident D5 is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), built by Lockheed Martin Space in Sunnyvale, California, and...
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The Trident missile is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV). Originally...
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involved in several Follow-on Commander's Evaluation Tests (FCET) of its Trident D-5 SLBM missile system. The FCET launches a specially modified missile without...
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M51 (missile) (redirect from M51 SLBM)
blunt-nosed SLBM examples, such as the Trident D5, the M51 uses an extensible aerospike in the nose. The missiles are a compromise over the M5 SLBM design...
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Tundra satellite system overestimates US' 50 Minuteman ICBMs and 8 Trident SLBMs to number in the hundreds, enough to devastate Russia. Having not heard...
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was the second US Navy nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) system, powered by a two-stage solid-fuel rocket. It succeeded the UGM-27...
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Rocket Range), as appearing to be the radar signature of the launch of a Trident SLBM missile. In response, Russian President Boris Yeltsin was summoned and...
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the current UK nuclear warheads will be replaced and will match the US Trident SLBM and related systems. In March 2021, the British government published...
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torpedo UGM-27 Polaris SLBM UGM-73 Poseidon SLBM UGM-84 Sub-Harpoon USM UGM-93 Trident SLBM UGM-133 Trident II SLBM UMGT-1 Torpedo antisubmarine torpedo USET-80...
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designed Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile. The first eight Ohio-class submarines were armed at first with 24 Trident I C4 SLBMs. Beginning...
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a submarine capable of deploying submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) with nuclear warheads. These submarines became a major weapon system in...
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Dreadnought-class submarine (redirect from British replacement of the trident system)
ballistic missile submarines. Like their predecessors they will carry Trident II D-5 missiles. The Vanguard submarines entered service in the United...
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intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) has given some nations the ability to plausibly deliver missiles anywhere...
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Soviet SLBMs were substantially larger and heavier than their American adversaries (the R-39s is more than twice as heavy as the UGM-96 Trident I; it remains...
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of DARPA's Falcon Project. A conventionally-armed modification of the Trident SLBM was also proposed as a CPS candidate in 2006. The Bush administration...
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designated SSBNs and armed with 24 [citation needed] Trident II SLBMs each, for a total of 288 Trident II missiles equipped with 1,152 MIRV nuclear warheads...
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Nuclear triad (section SLBMs)
Ohio-class submarines carried Trident C-4 and Trident D-5 missiles. In 1990, the United States was in possession of around 600 SLBMs and 5,216 warheads. Rounding...
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nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). As the United States Navy's first SLBM, it served from 1961 to 1980. In the mid-1950s the Navy...
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use on the UGM-96 Trident I submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and subsequently moved to the UGM-133 Trident II as Trident I was phased out...
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Vanguard-class submarine (category Trident (UK nuclear programme))
service with the Royal Navy. The class was introduced in 1994 as part of the Trident nuclear programme, and comprises four vessels: Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant...
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in solid propellant rockets, including the Space Shuttle boosters, Trident SLBMs, and other rockets such as the Patriot. The other producer, Kerr-McGee...
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July, 2021, after 11 years of development. The Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) can be armed with up to eight W88 warheads (Mark...
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SS-NX-32, GRAU index 3M30, 3K30) is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) developed for the Russian Navy and deployed in 2019 on the new Borei class...
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M45 (missile) (redirect from M45 SLBM)
replaced by the M51 SLBM. M51 (missile) R-29 Vysota R-29RM Shtil R-29RMU Sineva R-29RMU2 Layner RSM-56 Bulava UGM-133 Trident II JL-1 JL-2 K Missile...
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Korea, is a North Korean, two-stage submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that was successfully flight tested on 24 August 2016. Pukguksong-1 is officially...
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tradeoff is especially important for e.g. submarines. As of 1990, the Trident SLBMs used both detonable fuel and non-insensitive explosives. Casting and...
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It is used to transmit encrypted orders to submarines, including the Trident SLBM fleet. It uses as its aerial a 365-metre (1,198 foot) high guyed steel...
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