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Trident

Nuclear missile deployed on submarines. They were installed on US nuclear submarines from 1992. Each missile has up to eight warheads. The Trident replaced the earlier Polaris and Poseidon missiles.

Trident I (C4) missiles, developed in 1979, were replaced by Trident II (D5) missiles from 1990.



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