Type: Nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) In service: Since 1994 (with HMS Vanguard as the first of the class) ...

Vanguard-class submarines form a central part of Great Britain's nuclear deterrent strategy. An ongoing program places these units in unidentified regions since 1969.

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

What You Need to Know: A recent shortage of food supplies on a Royal Navy Vanguard-class nuclear submarine revealed an unexpected vulnerability: limited food storage for extended missions.

The UK’s Royal Navy launched a frantic search for phantom Russians off the coast after picking up two mysterious sounds in the ocean — only to conclude that the noises came from a gassy whale, an ...

A Cold War nuclear missile will remain in service for a total of 94 years thanks to a US$383 million US Navy contract, with Lockheed Martin to modernize the submarine-launched Trident II missile and ...

HMS Vanguard is one of four of the Vanguard-class nuclear submarines that have been on patrol since 1994, with one of the vessels continually at sea. The submarines are based at Faslane Royal Navy ...

In November 2024, Rolls-Royce Submarine opened a new office in Glasgow to help expedite the delivery of the Dreadnought and ...

The Navy has four nuclear armed Vanguard class submarines armed with Trident 2 doomsday missiles. One is always at sea, as a deterrent, ready to blast Britain‘a enemies to oblivion in the event ...

The stoppages came at Devonport Dockyard's 9 Dock, where nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard is berthed. Work was temporarily stopped in July 2017 and in September, said the Office for Nuclear ...

The UKs Royal Navy reportedly mistook a marine mammal for the Red October British ships spent several days tracking down a ...