The U.S. Navy has recently shared photos of its Ohio class ballistic missile submarine USS Maryland launching a Trident II D5 missile in the Eastern Test Range off the coast of Florida.

The U.S. Navy conducted a scheduled one-missile test flight of an unarmed life-extended Trident II (D5LE) missile from USS Maine (SSBN-741).

The Demonstration and Shakedown Operation with the missile launch was conducted with the Strategic Systems Programs on August 31. The keel of Maine was laid on July 3, 1990, and she was christened on July 16, 1994 by Mrs. Donna Cochran McLarty, wife of Thomas F. McLarty III, White House Chief of Staff. USS TRITON - the fifth ship in the Navy to bear the name - was in many ways a unique ship. Historians at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport are remembering one of the more unusual moments of World War II. USS Ohio (SSBN-726/SSGN-726), the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarines, is the fourth vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the 17th state.She was commissioned with the hull designation of SSBN-726, and with her conversion to a guided missile submarine she was re-designated SSGN-726. The 18 Ohio -class boomers are the largest ever built by the United States: 560 feet (170 m) long and displacing 18,700 tons submerged, they carry a crew of 157. USS Ohio (SSBN-726) Trident Ballistic Missile Submarine Ohio 's keel was laid in April 1976; she was launched three years later and commissioned in November 1981. Reindeer's wartime submarine trip Pollyanna the reindeer spent six weeks on HMS Trident . Trident missiles. In 1941, the crew of HMS Trident were given a reindeer … Designated DASO-27, the operation marked the 161st […] About USS Maine (SSBN 741) USS Maine (SSBN 741) is the 16th submarine of the Ohio class of ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), and the third U.S. Navy ship to bear the name. With a length of 447 feet (136.3 meters), she was the longest submarine at that time and she was the Navy's first submarine accommodating three decks in her hull. Ohio Class submarine is equipped with the Trident strategic ballistic missile from Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space.

The Trident was built in two versions, Trident I (C4), which is being phased out, and the larger and longer-range Trident II (D5), which entered service in 1990.