From The Archives: Poseidon And Trident With Aerospike

On the cover of the November 3, 1975, issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology was a photograph of Navy/Lockheed full-scale developmental models of the Poseidon C-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile (left) and Trident C-4 with the aerospike system deployed from the nose fairing provide a comparison of the two missiles (see story on page 34).

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