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Resolution Class Ballistic Missile Submarines

Royal Navy's four Polaris boats carried Britain's sea-based nuclear deterrent from 1968 to 1996.

Also searchable as Resolution Class, Resolution Class SSBNs, Resolution Class Submarines.

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