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HMS Splendid in Kosovo
The British government signed a Memorandum of Understanding to buy 67 Block III Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) from the United States for installation in Royal Navy submarines in October 1995. This provided sufficient TLAMs to arm two Swiftsure class and five Trafalgar class SSNs.
HMS Splendid was the first British submarine to receive the Tomahawk missiles. Splendid was a Swiftsure Class, nuclear powered, attack submarine built by VSEL at Barrow. Construction began on 24 November 1977, with the submarine launching on 5 October 1979 and commissioned on 21 March 1981. The submarine had an armament of five torpedo tubes, carrying Mk 24 torpedoes and Sub Harpoon anti-ship missiles. The boat then converted to carry Tomahawks in 1998. The missiles first successfully fired from Splendid during trials off the coast of California in November of the same year.
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