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USS George Washington, the first U.S. missile submarine, successfully launched the first Polaris missile from a submerged submarine on July 20, 1960. The A-2 version of the Polaris missile was essentially an upgraded A-1, and it entered service in late 1961. It was fitted on a total of 13 submarines and served until June 1974.
However, the Hotel class carried only three R-13 missiles (NATO reporting name SS-N-4) each and had to surface and raise the missile to launch. [9] Submerged launch was not an operational capability for the Soviets until 1963, when the R-21 missile (SS-N-5) was first backfitted to Project 658 (Hotel class) and Project 629 (Golf class ...
The missile in question, designated the UGM-27 Polaris, proved to be a success, and would usher in the age of the ballistic missile submarine as part of the nuclear triad used by both of the superpowers during the Cold War in accordance with the mutually assured destruction policy. Articles in which this image appears
The United Kingdom's Polaris programme, officially named the British Naval Ballistic Missile System, provided its first submarine-based nuclear weapons system. Polaris was in service from 1968 to 1996. Polaris itself was an operational system of four Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines, each armed with 16 Polaris A-3 ballistic missiles.
Polaris missile launch from HMS Revenge in 1983 Sixteen tubes for Polaris A3 Submarine-launched ballistic missiles were carried, in two rows of eight. [ 4 ] The missiles had a range of 2,500 nautical miles (2,900 mi; 4,600 km), [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and each missile could carry three 200 kt (840 TJ) nuclear warheads. [ 9 ]
USS George Washington (SSBN-598) (Ship, Submersible, Ballistic, Nuclear Powered) was the United States's first operational ballistic missile submarine.She was the lead ship of her class of nuclear ballistic missile submarines, was the third [5] United States Navy ship of the name, in honor of Founding Father George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States, and was the ...
Missile test: 4 October: Launch failure 4 October 05:18:07 UGM-27 Polaris A3 USNS Observation Island, ETR US Navy US Navy Suborbital Missile test: 4 October: Successful Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) 4 October: LGM-30B Minuteman IB Vandenberg LC-394A-6 US Air Force US Air Force Suborbital Missile test: 4 October: Successful Apogee: 1,300 ...
A development study for a longer range version of the Polaris missile—achieved by enlarging it to the maximum possible size allowed by existing launch tubes—started in 1963. Tests had already shown that Polaris missiles could be operated without problems in launch tubes that had their fiberglass liners and locating rings removed.