Trident II D5 Test flight

[EarthlingX]

http://www.spacewar.com : Trident II D5 Missile Scores Record 134 Test Flights In A Row

by Staff Writers
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2010

A Trident 2 D5 is launched.

The U.S. Navy conducted successful test flights June 8 and 9 of four Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBMs) built by Lockheed Martin. The Navy launched the unarmed missiles from the submerged submarine USS Maryland (SSBN 738) in the Atlantic Ocean.

This test marked the 131st, 132nd, 133rd and 134th consecutive successful test flights of the Trident II D5 missile since 1989 - continuing a more than 20-year record of reliability that is unmatched by any other large ballistic missile or space launch vehicle.

Wiki : Trident missile

The Trident missile is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) designed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in the United States with multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) capability. It is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). Trident missiles are carried by fourteen active US Navy Ohio class submarines, with U.S. warheads, and four Royal Navy Vanguard class submarines, with British warheads.

Wiki : UGM-133 Trident II

 

[RVHM]

Go, nukes!

 

[trailrider]

Congratulations to the officers and men of the U.S.S. Maryland and all those civilian and military who support them! Although we tend to think of the "boomers" as a relic of the Cold War, their continued presence in America's "Silent Service" is a warning to all potential adversaries that even if they were to knock out all of our land-based strategic missile force, and all of our strategic bombers, the FBM subs still will reduce them to "trinitite parking lots"! Godspeed to those in peril under the sea!

 

[Couerl]

Minuteman III just had a test run too.

http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/news/story ... =123211605