However, under the New Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, each submarine will have four of its missile tubes permanently deactivated in the coming years. The SSBN’s strategic weapon is the ...

The U.S. Navy awarded defense contractor Lockheed Martin a $383 million contract to produce upgraded Trident II D5 missiles ...

The SSGN Program Office refueled and converted four ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) into SSGNs in a little more than five years at a significantly lower cost and less time than building a new ...

A detailed model has provided what’s likely our best idea of how the U.K. Royal Navy’s new Dreadnought class nuclear ...

The United Kingdom has started production on its new Successor-class ballistic missile submarines (SSBN). The four new boats will be the largest submarines ever built for the Royal Navy ...

I was a member of the commissioning crew on the USS Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634) at Mare Island Naval ... however, I found the submarine service to be a training ground that supplied me with ...

Dreadnought-Class - Understanding This Submarine The Dreadnought-class is the successor to Britain’s Vanguard-class submarines, the backbone of the UK’s maritime nuclear deterrent since the 1990s.

And with good reason: Ile Longue, in the harbor of Brest, Brittany, is home to the naval component of France's nuclear deterrent: Four nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), each ...