Tag: SSBN
UK defence chief highlights global impact of Royal Navy
The UK’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) has highlighted key contributions made by different types of UK Royal Navy (RN) assets to stability and...
Ready Mercury?
The US Navy has shared details with Armada regarding its ongoing plans to replace the force’s existing Boeing E-6B Mercury TACAMO aircraft.
The TACAMO...
UK Trident test demonstrates submarine’s readiness to return to operations
The UK Royal Navy (RN) submarine HMS Vanguard has conducted a Trident missile firing that has demonstrated the boat’s readiness to return to operations...
Cold Calling
The United States is taking an important step forward towards enhancing its satellite communications coverage over the arctic.
The Arctic is not well served by...
Water, Water Everywhere
Covert, deniable, versatile, and packing an ever bigger punch, modern submarines are the weapons platforms of choice for those navies which can afford them....
Albion and the Apocalypse
Upon becoming the United Kingdom’s prime minister on 13 July Theresa May, like her predecessors, was asked to write several letters by the cabinet...
Missile Mishaps
The Royal Navy’s Lockheed Martin UGM-133A Trident D-5 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) are back in the headlines, following revelations on 22nd January that a...
Apocalypse UK
The December 2016/January 2017 edition of Armada International will feature an article on the Royal Navy’s BAE Systems ‘Dreadnought’ class Nuclear-Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine...
