In 1980, the Royal Navy requested Trident I missiles under the Polaris Sales Agreement. In 1982, the agreement was changed to supply Trident II instead.
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trident, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, november, 2008, le. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources UGM 96 Trident I news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2008 Learn how and when to remove this message The UGM 96 Trident I or Trident C4 was an American submarine launched ballistic missile SLBM built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale California First deployed in 1979 the Trident I replaced the Poseidon missile It was retired in 2005 having been replaced by the Trident II 2 UGM 96 Trident I C4 The first launch of a Trident I with a drag reducing aerospike from Cape Canaveral on 18 January 1977TypeSLBMPlace of originUnited StatesService historyIn service1979 to 2005Used byUnited States NavyProduction historyManufacturerLockheed Missiles DivisionSpecificationsMass73 066 pounds 33 142 kg Length33 feet 10 2 m Diameter71 inches 1 8 m WarheadUp to eight W76 warheads in Mark 4 RBs with a yield of 100 kilotonnes of TNT 420 TJ each EngineSolid fuel rocketOperationalrange4 600 miles 7 400 km GuidancesystemAstro inertial guidanceAccuracyCEP 229 500 m 1 LaunchplatformBallistic Missile Submarine The missile was a three stage solid fuelled system capable of carrying up to eight W76 warheads in the Mark 4 RB The first eight Ohio class submarines were armed with Trident I missiles Twelve James Madison and Benjamin Franklin class submarines were also retrofitted with Trident I missiles which replaced older Poseidon missiles In 1980 the Royal Navy requested Trident I missiles under the Polaris Sales Agreement In 1982 the agreement was changed to supply Trident II instead See also editTrident missile UGM 133 Trident IIReferences edit Matthew G McKinzie Thomas B Cochran Robert S Norris William M Arkin THE U S NUCLEAR WAR PLAN A TIME FOR CHANGE PDF Report Natural Resources Defense Council p 19 Archived PDF from the original on 2021 07 31 Retrieved 2021 09 01 Popejoy Mary November 5 2005 USS Alabama Offloads Last of C4 Trident Missiles navy mil US Navy Archived from the original on September 12 2007 Retrieved May 16 2012 nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to UGM 93A Trident I C 4 nbsp This article relating to missiles is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title UGM 96 Trident I amp oldid 1215313790, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
