British HMS RESOLUTION S22 Navy Cover 1972 POLARIS MISSILE Cachet PATRICK AFB FL

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British HMS RESOLUTION S22 Navy Cover 1972 POLARIS MISSILE Cachet PATRICK AFB, FLIt was sent 6 Mar 1972. It is franked with stamp "Space". This cover is in good, but not perfect condition. Please look at the scan and make your own judgement. Member USCS & APS (I also earned the stamp collecting merit badge as a boy!). I also offer approvals service with FREE SHIPPING to repeat USA customers.HMS Resolution (S22) was the first of the Royal Navy's Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines.A cutaway model of HMS ResolutionContents1 Construction2 Service2.1 Alleged use during the Falklands War3 ReferencesConstructionOrdered in May 1963, she was built by Vickers Armstrong at a cost of £40.2m. The keel was laid down on 26 February 1964 by the Director General Ships, Sir Alfred Sims, and the launch was on 15 September 1966, attended by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The submarine was commissioned on 2 October 1967, and following extensive trials, including the firing of her first Polaris missile on 15 February 1968, commenced her first patrol on 15 June 1968.ServiceHer Polaris system was updated in 1984 with the Chevaline IFE (Improved Front End) that included two new warheads and re-entry bodies and penaids, super-hardened to resist ABM attack, replacing the original three ET.317 warheads. Resolution conducted the longest Polaris patrol of 108 days in 1991.Alleged use during the Falklands WarDuring the early stages of the Falklands War, the BBC World News reported that Resolution was stationed of Buenos Aires. A similar story appeared in 1984 in the New Statesman which alleged that Resolution was sent south, as a means of launching a nuclear attack against Córdoba in the event that a Royal Navy aircraft carrier be sunk.[1]In reality, Resolution's crew were having to deal with an upsurge of Soviet SSN activity, with Resolution having to take evasive action to avoid a November-class submarine. Despite Soviet efforts, Resolution was never found during her 72-day patrol.[1]Following the completion of the first Trident-carrying Vanguard-class submarine in 1992, the Resolution class were gradually removed from service. Resolution was decommissioned on 22 October 1994, after 69 patrols, and laid up at the Rosyth Dockyard. She remains in the main basin at Rosyth, intact but with her reactor defuelled; the MOD has yet to finalise plans for removal of the radioactive reactor parts and the scrapping of the boat.[2]

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