UGM-27 Polaris

UGM-27 Polaris adalah sebuah peluru kendali berjenis rudal balistik kapal selam (SLBM) bersenjata nuklir dua tahap berbahan bakar padat yang dibangun selama Perang Dingin oleh Lockheed Corporation of California untuk Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat.

Rudal ini dirancang untuk digunakan sebagai bagian dari kontribusi gudang senjata nuklir Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat, menggantikan rudal jelajah Regulus. Dikenal sebagai Armada Rudal Balistik (FBM), Polaris pertama kali diluncurkan dari Cape Canaveral, Florida, pada uji dasar rudal tanggal 7 Januari 1960.

Referensi

• "Polaris: A Further Report on the Fleet Ballistic Missile System". Flight International: 751–757. 7 November 1963. 
• Parr, Helen. "The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4," Contemporary European History (2013) 22#2 pp 253–274.
• Moore, R. "A Glossary of British Nuclear Weapons" Prospero/Journal of BROHP. 2004.
• Dr F.Panton. The Unveiling of Chevaline. Prospero/Journal of BROHP. 2004.
• Dr F.Panton. Polaris Improvements and the Chevaline System. Prospero/Journal of BROHP. 2004.
• Dr Peter Jones Director, AWE (Ret). Chevaline Technical Programme. Prospero. 2005.
• Various authors – The History of the UK Strategic Deterrent: The Chevaline Programme, Proceedings of a Guided Flight Group conference that took place on October 28, 2004, Royal Aeronautical Society. ISBN 1-85768-109-6.
• The National Archives, London. Various declassified public-domain documents.
• Chuck Hansen. Swords of Armageddon. 1995.

Pranala luar

• Lockheed Martin Polaris Website Diarsipkan 2007-10-19 di Wayback Machine.
• Federation of American Scientists history of A-1 Polaris; see also "a-2.htm," "a-3.htm," and "b-3.htm". (Now known to be an outdated source with many inaccuracies.)
• http://www.mcis.soton.ac.uk/Site_Files/pdf/nuclear_history/glossary.pdf Diarsipkan 2012-03-14 di Wayback Machine. University of Southampton, 2005.