Friday, 18 March 2016

An object lesson? The first British nuclear ballistic missile submarine program (James Goldrick, ASPI The Strategist)

The recently published history of the British submarine service since 1945, The Silent Deep by Peter Hennessy and James Jinks, contains much food for thought for those interested in Australia’s future submarine capability. One particular episode, the construction of four nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines to carry Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent in the form of the Polaris A3 missile, is worth exploring in detail.

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/an-object-lesson-the-first-british-nuclear-ballistic-missile-submarine-programme/

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