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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 ...
Test launch of a Trident II missile. Trident II D-5 is a submarine-launched ballistic missile built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California, and deployed by the US Navy and the Royal Navy. [121] The British government contributed five per cent of its research and development costs under the modified Polaris Sales Agreement.
The UK has four nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, each of which is armed with American-built Trident 2 D5 missiles, according to the Royal Navy. The missiles can be fired at targets up ...
Lockheed Martin's (LMT) Trident II (D5) is one of the major submarine-launched fleet ballistic missiles programs in the United States.
The Ministry of Defence said an ‘anomaly occurred’ during a test firing but looked to assure that the nuclear deterrent remains ‘effective’.
2.9 Mt Inactive 1959 No Launch pad 5,000 m 16 R-16: USSR Khartron: 11,000 km 141,000 kg 5 Mt Inactive 1961 No Silo 2,700 m 17 R-9 Desna: USSR NPO Energomash Khartron 11,000 km 80,400 kg 2.3 Mt Inactive 1961 No Silo 2,000 m 18 UR-100: USSR Khrunichev Machine-Building Plant 10,600 km 41,400 kg 1 Mt Inactive 1966 No Silo N/A 19 RT-2: USSR 10,186 km
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Trident nuclear-deterrent system misfired during a test last month, sending a missile crashing into the ocean off the Florida coast near the submarine that launched it ...