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> Vanguard class submarine
The
Royal Navy
's
Vanguard
class
of nuclear ballistic missile
submarine
s (
SSBN
s), each armed with 16
Trident
SLBM
s, includes four boats:
Vanguard
(S28)
,
Victorious
(S29) ,
Vigilant
(S30) , and
Vengeance
(S31) , all built by
Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd
.
1 General characteristics
Displacement: 15,900 tons submerged
Length: 149.9 meters
Beam: 12.8 meters
Draught: 12 meters
Complement: 14 officers, 121 ratings
Propulsion:
PWR2 reactor
Armament:
16 missile tubes capable of firing
Trident D5 missiles
four torpedo tubes capable of firing
Spearfish torpedo
es
Sensors:
sonar
(bow, flank, active intercept, and towed arrays)
periscopes: (attack and search)
collision avoidance radar
2 External links
opposition to Trident
http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/177.html
Vanguard
-class submarine
Vanguard
|
Victorious
|
Vigilant
|
Vengeance
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