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TRIDENT D-5

 

 

A Trident II D5 Missile breaking the surface, having been fired from HMS Vanguard a Strategic Missile Submarine. This was the culmination of an intensive period of training, which was part of the long process of bringing a submarine out of a Long Overhaul Period and Refuel, through sea trials, sea training and this Demonstration and Shakedown Operation to bring her back to Operational Service in 2006.

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