Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- UK's Successor SSBNs will carry fewer missiles
- In
- Jane’s Defence Weekly
- Imprint
- vol. 46, no. 12, 39897, p. 12
- Description
Accession No.2520
- Abstract
The UK's next generation of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines will carry only 12 missile tubes - four fewer than the Vanguard-class strategic missile submarines (SSBNs), they will relace, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed.