Summary and Key Points: The Royal Navy's Vanguard-class nuclear submarines serve as the UK's strategic nuclear deterrent, carrying Trident II D5 missiles.Introduced in 1994, the four Vanguard ...

Until the deployment of the Soviet Union's mighty Typhoon-class, Ohio was the largest submarine in the world. The U.S. Navy's boats displaced 16,764 tons, were 560 feet (170 meters) in length and ...

each submarine will have four of its missile tubes permanently deactivated in the coming years. The SSBN’s strategic weapon is the Trident II D5 missile, which provides increased range and ...

Serving as one of the U.K.'s primary nuclear deterrents, the Vanguard-class submarines carry 16 Trident II D5 missiles with as many as 12 MIRV nuclear warheads.

After all, the British nuclear deterrent relies exclusively on American ballistic missile technology, the submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) known as the Trident II D5, built by the U.S ...

called the Trident II D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2), which will be carried aboard COLUMBIA-class ballistic missile submarines to ensure the weapon system remains credible through 2084. Rising ...

The company also will be building a $140 million, 225,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Titusville for the project ...

Per the terms of the deal, the company will design the upgraded missile, called the Trident II D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2), which will be carried aboard COLUMBIA-class ballistic missile submarines to ...