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The UK Trident programme was announced in July 1980 and patrols began in December 1994. Trident replaced the submarine-based Polaris system, in operation from 1968 until 1996. Trident is the only nuclear weapon system operated by the UK since the decommissioning of tactical WE.177 free-fall bombs in 1998.
British European Airways Flight 548 was a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Brussels that crashed near Staines, England, United Kingdom, shortly after take-off on 18 June 1972, killing all 118 people on board.
The first test of the Trident was on January 18, 1977 when an unarmed missile was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida and traveled almost its full range of 4,600 miles (7,400 km), to a point in the South Atlantic Ocean near Ascension Island. [3] Trident I (designated as C4) was deployed in 1979 and retired in 2005. [4]
Stop Trident Protest. Trident Ploughshares (originally named Trident Ploughshares 2000) is an activist anti-nuclear weapons group, founded in 1998 with the aim of "beating swords into ploughshares" (taken from the Book of Isaiah). This is specifically by attempting to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system, in a non-violent manner.
Operation Trident may refer to: Operation Trident (1963) , a military operation during the Portuguese Colonial War in Guinea in 1964 Operation Trident (1971) , an operation of the Indian Navy that attacked Karachi, Pakistan
Palaeolithic. Soanian culture, c. 500,000 – 250,000 BCE; Neolithic. Mehrgarh, c. 7000 – c. 3000 BCE; Indus Valley Civilisation, c. 3300 – c. 1700 BCE; Vedic ...
The 97th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II.Nicknamed the "Trident division" because of its shoulder patch, a vertical trident in white on a blue background, it was originally trained in amphibious assaults as preparation for deployment in the Pacific Theater.
Operation Trident was an offensive operation launched by the Indian Navy on Pakistan's port city of Karachi during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Operation Trident saw the first use of anti-ship missiles in combat in the region. The operation was conducted on the night of 4–5 December and inflicted heavy damage on Pakistani vessels and ...