Anonymous ID: ac9812 July 28, 2018, 8:14 p.m. No.2333278   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3356

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UGM-133A Trident II

Trident II missile image.jpg

A Trident II launch from a submerged Royal Navy submarine.

Type SLBM

Place of origin United States

Service history

In service March 1990

Used by United States Navy

Royal Navy

Production history

Manufacturer Lockheed Martin Space Systems

Unit cost $37,320,070 (2014)[1]

Produced 1983

Specifications

Weight 130,000 lb (59,000 kg)[1]

Length 44 ft 6.6 in (13.579 m)

Diameter 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) (1st stage)[1]

Warhead 8–12 thermonuclear MIRV (Multiple Independently Targetable re-entry Vehicle), W88 or W76 thermonuclear weapons[2][3]

Engine Three solid-fuel rocket motors; first & second stage – Thiokol/Hercules solid-fueled rocket; third stage – United Technologies Corp. solid-fueled rocket[4]

Propellant Nitrate ester, Plasticized Polyethylene Glycol[5]

Operational

range

More than 7,500 mi (12,000 km)[6][7] (exact is classified)[8]

Speed Approximately 18,030 mph (29,020 km/h) (Mach 24; 8,060 m/s)[1] (terminal phase)

Guidance

system

MK 6 astro-inertial guidance which is able to receive GPS (Global Positioning System) updates[1][9]

Steering

system

Single movable nozzle actuated by a gas generator[5]

Accuracy 90 m with Mk5 RV[7]

Launch

platform

Ballistic missile submarine

The UGM-133A Trident II, or Trident D5 is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California, and deployed with the American and British navies

 

US and British Navy have the D5 Trident Sub launched missle

 

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-133_Trident_II