The primary role of the Vanguard-class submarines is to serve as a sea-based nuclear deterrent. Each submarine can carry up to 16 Trident II D5 missiles, which are equipped with multiple ...

Summary and Key Points: The Vanguard-class ... missile submarine unveiled in 1994 to be designed: nuclear deterrence. But unlike the United States, whose nuclear triad allocated deterrent systems ...

Summary and Key Points: Britain’s Vanguard-class nuclear-powered ballistic ... They were designed to carry the Trident II/D5 missile, a submarine-launched ballistic missile capable of delivering ...

An “anomaly occurred” during the test on board the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Vanguard ... the wider Trident missile systems and stockpile.” Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent system ...

A test of Britain's nuclear deterrent ... also includes four Vanguard-class submarines carrying nuclear warheads. Some 16 Trident II D5 missiles can be carried by each submarine, and each can ...

A Trident nuclear missile has failed its second test launch, crash-landing close to the submarine that ... of Britain’s nuclear-deterrent system. The Vanguard-class submarines are capable ...

The Royal Navy is struggling to hire and hold on to sailors manning the Trident nuclear ... and Vanguard-class submarines said he left after a recent gruelling 150-day underwater deterrent patrol.

Entering service at the end of the Cold War in 1990, the Trident II missile was developed as one leg of the three-part US nuclear deterrent ... 14 Ohio class and the Royal Navy's four Vanguard ...

“The U.K.’s nuclear ... Vanguard-class submarines, which provide Britain’s nuclear deterrent by ensuring that one of the vessels is constantly at sea. The nuclear-powered submarines carry ...