Trident (missile): Difference between revisions

In 2009, the United States upgraded the warheads carried by American D5 missiles with an arming, fuzing and firing (AF&F) system called the "super-fuze" that allows them to time their detonation to target silos and bunkers more accurately, greatly increasing their effectiveness against hardened targets.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kristensen |first1=Hans M. |last2=McKinzie |first2=Matthew |last3=Postol |first3=Theodore A. |date=1 March 2017 |title=How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze |url=https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-modernization-is-undermining-strategic-stability-the-burst-height-compensating-super-fuze/ |url-status=live |journal=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305115022/http://thebulletin.org/how-us-nuclear-force-modernization-undermining-strategic-stability-burst-height-compensating-super10578 |archive-date=5 March 2017}}</ref>