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The UGM-133A Trident II, or Trident D5 is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), built by Lockheed Martin Space in Sunnyvale, California, and deployed with the United States and Royal Navy. It was first deployed in March 1990, [ 6 ] and remains in service.
The first flight test of a D-5 LE subsystem, the MK 6 Mod 1 guidance system, in Demonstration and Shakedown Operation (DASO)-23, [17] took place on USS Tennessee on 22 February 2012. [18] This was almost exactly 22 years after the first Trident II missile was launched from Tennessee in February 1990.
The American large SSBN was the Ohio class, also called the "Trident submarine", with the largest SSBN armament ever of 24 missiles, initially Trident I but built with much larger tubes for the Trident II (D-5) missile, which entered service in 1990. [26] [27] The entire class was converted to use Trident II by the early 2000s. Trident II ...
Lockheed Martin (LMT) clinches a $10.9-million contract to support the fiscal 2023 Trident II (D5) missile production schedule.
Lockheed Martin's (LMT) Trident II D5 is one of the major submarine-launched fleet ballistic missiles (SLBM) programs in the nation.
General Dynamics' (GD) business unit clinches an $18.1-million deal to provide support services for the Trident II Strategic Weapon System.
Test launch of a Trident II missile. Trident II D-5 is a submarine-launched ballistic missile built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California, and deployed by the US Navy and the Royal Navy. [122] The British government contributed five per cent of its research and development costs under the modified Polaris Sales Agreement.
The latest contract win may allow Lockheed Martin's (LMT) Space Systems unit to make a rebound in its revenues and result in top line growth in the second half of 2018.