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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 deployed with the United States and Royal Navy. It was first deployed in March 1990, [ 6 ] and remains in service.
The Trident was built in two variants: the I (C4) UGM-96A and II (D5) UGM-133A; however, these two missiles have little in common. While the C4, formerly known as EXPO (Extended Range Poseidon), is just an improved version of the Poseidon C-3 missile, the Trident II D-5 has a completely new design (although with some technologies adopted from ...
The American large SSBN was the Ohio class, also called the "Trident submarine", with the largest SSBN armament ever of 24 missiles, initially Trident I but built with much larger tubes for the Trident II (D-5) missile, which entered service in 1990. [26] [27] The entire class was converted to use Trident II by the early 2000s. Trident II ...
The W76 is an American thermonuclear warhead, designed for 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 of service.
UGM-133 Trident II (active, 8-12 warheads) United States. LGM-30 Minuteman III (active, 1-3 warheads, currently carries one warhead) UGM-73 Poseidon (retired, 10 or 14 warheads) UGM-96 Trident I (retired, 8 warheads) LGM-118 Peacekeeper (retired, 10 warheads) UGM-133 Trident II (active 8-12 warheads)
UGM-133 Trident II: GPS: Mach 24: UGM-109 Tomahawk: Global Positioning System: Mach 0.7: UGM-84 Harpoon: Active radar homing: Mach 0.7: See also. Lists of weapons;
UGM-133 Trident II This page was last edited on 27 March 2013, at 11:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
W88 for UGM-133 Trident II SLBM (1988–present) W89 for AGM-131 SRAM II ASM and UUM-125 Sea Lance SSM (cancelled 1991) W91 for SRAM-T ASM (cancelled 1991) Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW1) design program (2004–2008, cancelled) W93 for UGM-133 Trident II SLBM (proposed) [1] See also Enduring Stockpile.