File:A Trident Missile Breaks the Surface After Being Fired from HMS Vanguard MOD 45151581.jpg

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English: A Trident II D5 missile is fired from HM Submarine Vanguard during tests in the Western Atlantic in 2005.

A credible nuclear deterrent depends upon the ability to threaten an assured and effective response to aggression. The Trident II D5 missile has a range of over 4,000 nautical miles and an accuracy, which can be measured in metres.

Each missile is technically capable of delivering up to 12 warheads, enabling a number of different targets to be engaged, and each Vanguard class submarine has 16 missile tubes. The missile is ejected from the submarine by high-pressure gas and only when it reaches the surface does the rocket system actually fire.

  • Organization: Royal Navy
  • Object Name: 04117702
  • Category: MOD
  • Supplemental Categories: Equipment, Weapons, Missiles, Trident
  • Keywords: Missile, Weapon, Equipment, Royal Navy, Trident, Nuclear, Deterrent, Surface, Launched, Ballistic , Submarine, HMS Vanguard, SSBN, SSBM
  • Country: USA
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Author Lt Stuart Antrobus RN
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