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Navy Exploring Successor To Sub-Launched Nuclear Missile

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, September 22nd, 2016

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Navy Exploring Successor To Sub-Launched Nuclear Missile

The Air Force test launches a Minuteman III ICBM in September 2010. Photo: Air Force.

The U.S. Navy is in the “very early phases” of exploring what the successor to its Trident II D-5 ballistic missile will look like, a service official said Sept. 22.Navy engineers “have begun evaluating the technology areas that need to be examined” to develop the new submarine-launched, nuclear-armed missile, said Vice Adm. Terry Benedict, director of Navy Strategic Systems Programs. The service has also had preliminary discussions with high-level decision-makers, including the Joint Staff, the Pentagon’s acquisition and policy offices,…

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