How it's going: a Royal Navy Vanguard-class SSBN returns to Faslane after a six-month patrol

How it started

Whereabouts unknown - 1961.

Taglio della lamiera per il primo sottomarino francese lanciamissili di terza generazione Naval Group ha comunicato che il taglio della lamiera per dil primo SSBN francese di terza generazione è avvenuto presso il cantiere navale di Cherbourg. Tale gesto simbolico segna l’inizio della produzione dello scafo di questi sottomarini che garantiranno la deterrenza nucleare della Francia fino alla fine del XXI secolo. Tra i sistemi più complessi, gli SSBN sono i pilastri della forza oceanica strategica francese (FOST) e garantiscono che la deterrenza nucleare rimanga costante. Lanciato nel febbraio 2021, il programma SNLE 3G per la Marine Nationale riunisce le Forze Armate, l’Agenzia francese per gli appalti della difesa (Direction Générale de

For a strike on our country to be successful, it must be delivered faster than our alarm, situation assessment and launch command pass. For this, the distance from which the strike should be made must be about 3000 kilometers, otherwise the flight time of the missiles will be too long.

There is one technical aspect little known to the layman. A ballistic missile can fly not only along its normal trajectory, when the payload is thrown to the top of the trajectory and falls down from there. In addition to ballistic trajectories, missiles can also fly along the so-called flat (depressed in English terminology). The meaning of a flat trajectory is that the rocket goes very low, not even rising to 300 kilometers. With such a trajectory, range and accuracy suffer greatly, the dispersion of warheads grows, but on the other hand, a serious gain in flight speed to the target and a very short flight time are obtained.

Franco-British Strategic Nuclear Deterrence Is Considerable

Franco-British Strategic Nuclear Deterrence Is Considerable

Nuclear war may be around the corner, the deluded Putin, tail between his legs, is that crazy that he may not realize that his “escalate to de-escalate” insanity would be of no advantage to him and his criminal entourage. So it’s a good point to consider the main deterrent of the West: the strategic nuclear forces of the US, Britain and France (3 of the 5 powers allowed nuclear weapons under UN…

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USS ALASKA (SSBN-732) during its commissioning at the Naval Submarine Base, Groton, Connecticut.

Date: January 25, 1986

Photographed by PH3 Zopf.

NARA: 6409463

It's National Nevada Day! on March 29 2012, USS Nevada (SSBN 733) was boarded by a rogue team of elite seals that tried to take over the submarine. The crew of the Nevada managed to repel the seals (harmlessly) before the marine mammals did any damage. 

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Apr.9.1981

 - 米原潜当て逃げ事件. 米原潜当て逃げ事件（べいげんせんあてにげじけん）とは、1981年4月9日に発生した、日本船籍の貨物船に対する当て逃げ事件である。日昇丸事件（にっしょうまるじけん）ともいう。

USS SAM RAYBURN" (SSBN-635) Showing the 16 Hatches for Her UGM-27 Polaris Missiles; Each Carrying 3 x W58 Thermonuclear MIRV Warheads of 200 kt Each

Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine USS Rhode Island (SSBN-740) passing underneath the Pell Newport Bridge after departing Newport for builder's trials off the New England coast, 1994.

British Royal Navy submarine aircraft carrier: Skyhook variant concept of the Royal Navy Vanguard-class SSBN for the anticipated BAE P.1214 VTOL aircraft. The Skyhook system was tested with Harrier Jump jets, but wasn't progressed any further and the P.1214/6 was cancelled by 1988

USS Ohio SSGN SSBN 726 class guided missile submarine US Navy

18 Jul 23

[Article is translated statement from DPRK State Media]

Through this press statement, I remind the U.S. military of the fact that the ever-increasing visibility of the deployment of the strategic nuclear submarine and other strategic assets may fall under the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons specified in the DPRK law on the nuclear force policy.

20 Jul 23

An incredible photograph of a CV-22 Osprey from 352nd SOW conducting submarine logistics operations with the USS Georgia (SSGN-729), an Ohio class SSBN (most probably in the Mediterranean) (Circa April 2021). #avgeeks #aviation #aviationdaily #USNavy #photooftheday

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USS Pennsylvania (SSBN-736) underway at high speed, in November 1995.

Photographed by Larry Smith.

NARA: 6493464

USS SAM RAYBURN" (SSBN-635) Showing the 16 Hatches for Her UGM-27 Polaris Missiles; Each Carrying 3 x W58 Thermonuclear MIRV Warheads of 200 kT Each