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10 unusual facts about UGM


Charles Cullen

Cullen rose to the rank of petty officer third class as part of the team that operated the ship's Poseidon missiles.

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Inertial-based GN&C systems were central for navigating ballistic missile submarines for long periods of time undersea to avoid detection and guiding their submarine-launched ballistic missiles to their targets, starting with the UGM-27 Polaris missile program.

HMS Ranger

A fictitious Polaris Resolution class submarine captured in the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" was also named HMS Ranger.

Mary G. Ross

As an advanced systems engineer, Miss Ross worked on the Polaris reentry vehicle and engineering systems for manned space flights.

Moskva-class helicopter carrier

The aim of the ships was to counter NATO Polaris submarines and act as a flagship for anti-submarine warfare.

Polaris Sales Agreement

The agreement formally arranged for the Polaris missile system to be provided to the UK to maintain its independent nuclear deterrent.

UGM

Universal Graphics Module, a standard for connecting graphics card modules to embedded/industrial computer systems.

UGM-73 Poseidon

By 1992, the Soviet Union had collapsed, 12 Ohio-class submarines had been commissioned, and the START I treaty had gone into effect, so the 31 older Poseidon- and Trident I-armed SSBNs were disarmed, withdrawing Poseidon from service.

UGM-89 Perseus

This missile system was to be the centerpiece for a proposed third-generation nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine championed by then-Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the influential but controversial head of the Navy's nuclear propulsion program.

UK Polaris programme

"Polaris" itself was an operational system of four Resolution-class submarines, each armed with 16 UGM-27 Polaris A-3 ballistic missiles, with each missile able to deliver three ET.317 thermonuclear warheads around a single target.


Macanese legislative election, 2013

Lee Kin Yun claims UGM vice-president Mak Soi Kun was vote buying during a function gift bags were handed out with the name, photo and address of Mak Soi Kun with the estimated value of 100 Macanese pataca.

Paul Saunders

Post WWII found Paul working in the development of the launching systems for KGW-1 Loon, which was an adaptation of the US Army's JB-2 Doodle Bug, Regulus, and Polaris missiles.