The Trident system of submarines, ... Since the 1960s, the UK's nuclear submarines have been based at Faslane Royal Navy base near the Firth of Clyde, about 25 miles from Glasgow.

Britain is to buy a fleet of 12 stealth fighter jets which will allow the RAF to carry tactical nuclear weapons for the first ...

At least one Vanguard submarine is deployed at any time as part of the UK's Continuous at Sea Deterrent. Building the Trident system in the 1980s cost about £21 billion ($26.5 billion) in today's ...

Jeremy Corbyn has suggested the UK could keep its Trident submarine fleet but without carrying nuclear warheads. The Labour leader told the Andrew Marr show that protecting defence jobs was his ...

The UK has four nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, each of which is armed with American-built Trident 2 D5 missiles, according to the Royal Navy. The missiles can be fired at targets up ...

A Trident II D5 missile breaks the surface of the water having been fired from HMS Vanguard, a British strategic missile submarine. More recent tests didn't go so well. (British Defence Ministry ...

A Trident nuclear missile has failed its second test launch, crash-landing close to the submarine that had deployed it. Having taken place off the coast of Florida at the end of January, the ...

How many nuclear submarines does the UK have – and are they ready for war? Britain currently has a fleet of nine submarines, including four Vanguard vessels armed with the Trident nuclear system ...

The UK's nuclear power programme is driven by military demands, write Andy Stirling & Phil Johnstone - but not in the way you might think. The most essential need is not for plutonium or tritium, but ...

2016 - The first of Trident's four new nuclear submarines is named Dreadnought. 3 Lord Nelson was killed on Trafalgar Day which took place 211 years ago October 21, 1805 ...

The Trident system of submarines, ... Tony Blair's Labour government decided to renew the Trident submarine fleet. And in 2016, the UK Parliament again voted to maintain Britain's nuclear capability.

Jeremy Corbyn has suggested the UK could keep its Trident submarine fleet but without carrying nuclear warheads. The Labour leader told the Andrew Marr show that protecting defence jobs was his ...