Trident ii d5 fleet ballistic missile

Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, California, provides program management and technical engineering support to the UK's TRIDENT II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile programme, under the terms of contracts awarded from the US Navy Strategic Systems Programs.

The contract is awarded annually and calls upon Space Systems to provide the Royal Navy with general support for UK TRIDENT II programme management and planning, and technical support for UK re-entry systems, missile systems and support systems and integration, production and operations, and flight testing. Additionally, Space Systems will provide the Royal Navy with spare parts to support delivered support equipment, re-entry body and missile body assembly components.

Work on the contract is performed at Space Systems facilities located in Sunnyvale (California), Kings Bay (Georgia), Cape Canaveral (Florida) and Coulport in Scotland.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems has provided support to the UK’s Royal Navy under the terms of the US-UK Polaris Sales Agreement since 1968. The United Kingdom and the United States governments signed the Polaris Sales Agreement (PSA) in April 1963. It began nearly three decades of reliance by the UK on the Lockheed Martin built POLARIS A3 submarine-launched, ballistic missile system for its strategic deterrence mission. In 1982, the PSA was modified at the request of the British government to provide for the sale of the TRIDENT II D5 ballistic missile system, associated equipment and related system support. The UK began replacing the POLARIS A3 system in the mid-1990’s with the TRIDENT II D5 missile system.

The UK’s strategic deterrent consists of four British-built Vanguard-class TRIDENT ballistic missile submarines. Each submarine carries 16 TRIDENT II D5 missiles.

Space Systems, Strategic Missile Programs has more than 40 years of experience in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, test and support of strategic missile systems for the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy.

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