Vanguard
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Vanguard may refer to:
[edit] Military
- Vanguard, the forward division in an army
- Vanguard, the leading squadron or division of a fleet
- HMS Vanguard, a name for ships in the Royal Navy
- The Vanguard class of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the Royal Navy
- USNS Vanguard (T-AGM-19), the lead ship in a class of Missile Range Instrumentation Ships
- Vanguard Industries, a major US military insignia manufacturer
- Vickers Vanguard, a short/medium-range turboprop airliner introduced in 1959 by Vickers-Armstrong, seating 139 passengers
[edit] Space
- Project Vanguard, an early U.S. civilian satellite launch project, which attempted to launch a satellite in 1957, and succeeded in 1958
- Vanguard rocket, used in Project Vanguard
- Vanguard 1 The second satellite launched by the United States, currently the oldest artificial object still in orbit.
[edit] Politics
- Vanguard party, a usually Marxist political party that views itself as the vanguard, or organizational leader, of proletarian revolution
- Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, a hardline unionist political party in Northern Ireland during the 1970s
- National Vanguard, a right-wing American political group.
[edit] Business
- Vanguard Airlines was an airline based in Kansas City from 1994 to 2002
- Vanguard Car Rental
- The Vanguard Group, a large American investment management company
- Vanguard Records is an independent record label, featuring mostly folk and blues, founded by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in 1950
- Vanguard Animation, a computer graphics/movie studio
[edit] Education
- Vanguard High School (Florida)
- Vanguard College (Canada)
- Vanguard University of Southern California
[edit] Newspapers
- The Vanguard (January 1853 - March 1853), a short-lived socialist paper published by George Julian Harney
- The Vanguard, student newspaper at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Massachusetts
- Vanguard (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Nigeria
- Daily Vanguard, a student-run newspaper at Portland State University
[edit] Comics and anime
- Vanguard, an alien superhero once featured in the comic book of the same name and now occasionally seen in the Savage Dragon.
- Vanguard, a science fiction themed sprite comic
- Vanguard, a humanoid mecha (used by the male faction) in the anime Vandread
[edit] Games and toys
- Vanguard (arcade game) (1981), a shooter game, and sequel Vanguard II (1984)
- Vanguard Bandits (2000), a tactical role-playing game
- Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, a multiplayer role-playing game in development by Sigil Games Online
- Vanguard from the computer game The Longest Journey
- Vanguard, the droid partner of the Action Master version of the Autobot Sideswipe in the Transformers toy line
- Vanguard, a defensive item present in dota a custom game of Warcraft III the Frozen Throne
- Vanguard, a system that is similar to our Sol System which hosts Vanguard III by Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
- Vanguard is the name of the Action master partner to the Autobot Sideswipe.
[edit] Other uses
- Santa Clara Vanguard, a Division I modern drum and bugle corps based in Santa Clara, California
- Vanguard (synthesizer), a VSTi plug-in developed by reFX software
- The Vanguards, a Norwegian rock band
[edit] See also
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