US Navy Fact Files (all publicly releasable info):

Trident II (D5) Missile:

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=2200&tid=1400&ct=2

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Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines - SSBN:

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4100&tid=200&ct=4

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Tomahawk Cruise Missile:

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=2200&tid=1300&ct=2

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Guided Missile Submarines - SSGN:

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4100&tid=300&ct=4

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Standard Missile:

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=2200&tid=1200&ct=2

US Navy Fact Files (all publicly releasable info):

TRIDENT D-5 photos:

https://search.navy.mil/search/images?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=navy_all&query=D5

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Tomahawk missile photos:

https://search.navy.mil/search/images?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=navy_all&query=tomahawk+missile

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Explosive ordnance experts have determined that a suspicious package left inside the gate of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard near a ferry terminal in Bremerton is not an explosive threat.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/06/14/possible-bomb-at-kitsap-naval-base-closes-ferry-terminal/

Interesting speech by CNO Richardson during his address at the U.S. Naval War College’s Current Strategy Forum on June 12, considering the missile takedown on June 10 which is not mentioned in the article.

The US Navy is fed up with ballistic missile defense patrols

The U.S. Navy’s top officer wants to end standing ballistic missile defense patrols and transfer the mission to shore-based assets.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said in no uncertain terms on June 12 that he wants the Navy off the tether of ballistic missile defense patrols, a mission that has put a growing strain on the Navy’s hard-worn surface combatants, and the duty shifted towards more shore-based infrastructure. …

The unusually direct comments from the CNO come amid growing frustration among the surface warfare community that the mission, which requires ships to stay in a steaming box doing figure-eights for weeks on end, is eating up assets and operational availability that could be better used confronting growing high-end threats from China and Russia. …

The BMD mission was also a factor in degraded readiness in the surface fleet. Amid the nuclear threat from North Korea, the BMD mission began eating more and more of the readiness generated in the Japan-based U.S. 7th Fleet, which created a pressurized situation that caused leaders in the Pacific to cut corners and sacrifice training time for their crews, an environment described in the Navy’s comprehensive review into the two collisions that claimed the lives of 17 sailors in the disastrous summer of 2017.

Richardson said that as potential enemies double down on anti-access technologies designed to keep the U.S. Navy at bay, the Navy needed to focus on missile defense for its own assets. …

The Navy has had some success with land-based BMD with its AEGIS Ashore system in Romania, which uses what looks like a cruiser superstructure with SPY arrays and missiles to create a missile defense shield. Another AEGIS Ashore is planned for Poland in 2020 and last year Japan announced plans to buy the system, which could relieve some of the pressure on 7th Fleet ships once operational.

More at:

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/06/16/the-us-navy-is-fed-up-with-ballistic-missile-defense-patrols/