Vanguard

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A vanguard is the forward element of an advancing military tactical formation. Vanguard may also refer to:

Ships

• HMS Vanguard, any of several British Royal Navy ships
• Vanguard class submarine, the British Royal Navy's current nuclear ballistic missile submarines.
• USNS Vanguard (T-AGM-19), US Navy vessel commissioned in 1944, originally USNS Mission San Fernando
• Ocean Vanguard, a British freighter sunk in 1942 by the German submarine Unterseeboot 515 (U-515)
• Vanguard class ship of the line, a class of warship deployed during the 19th century by the British Royal Navy
• ST Vanguard, a tugboat

Planes

• Chengdu J-10 "Vanguard", a 4.5-generation Chinese fighter plane
• Vickers Vanguard, a British short/medium-range turboprop airliner (first flown 1959)
• P-66 Vanguard, U.S. fighter plane built from 1939 to 1943

Space

• Project Vanguard, a U.S. satellite launch project begun in 1957
  • Vanguard (rocket), launch vehicle used in Project Vanguard
  • Vanguard TV3, first satellite launch attempt in 1957
  • Vanguard 1, artificial satellite launched in 1958
  • Vanguard 2, artificial satellite launched in 1959
  • Vanguard 3, artificial satellite launched in 1959

Politics

• Vanguard party, a political party at the forefront of a mass action, movement, or revolution, usually Leninist
• Vanguardism, a strategy whereby an organization attempts to place itself at the center of a revolutionary movement
• Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, a unionist political party in Northern Ireland during the 1970s
• National Vanguard, one of several white nationalist or neo-fascist organizations and publications
• Vanguard Group (anarchist), an American anarchist group in the 1930s

Business

• Vanguard Airlines, an airline based in Kansas City from 1994 to 2002
• Vanguard Animation, a computer animation movie studio
• Vanguard Cellular, a U.S. cellular phone company founded in 1984
• Vanguard Health Systems, a U.S. operator of hospitals and other medical facilities
• Vanguard Sailboats, a Wisconsin builder of racing and recreational sailboats
• The Vanguard Group, a U.S. investment management company founded in 1975
• China Resources Vanguard Shop, one of the largest supermarket chain companies in Hong Kong

Education

• Vanguard School, a private boarding high school in Lake Wales, Florida, U.S.
• The Vanguard School, a public high school in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
• Vanguard High School, a public school in Ocala, Florida, U.S.
• Vanguard College, a Christian college in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Vanguard University of Southern California, a Christian liberal arts university in Costa Mesa, California, U.S.
• Vanguard College Preparatory School, a private high school in Waco, Texas, U.S.

Publishing

• Vanguard (journal), published by the anarchist Vanguard Group
• Vanguard (newspaper), a Nigerian newspaper
• Vanguard Press, a publishing label now owned by Random House
• Daily Vanguard, the student newspaper at Portland State University
• Star Trek: Vanguard, a series of novels about a space station called Vanguard
• Vanguard, student newspaper of the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama
• Vanguard, official press organ of Hardline (subculture), a radical deep ecology movement
• The Vanguard (1922-28), a publication of the émigré Communist Party of India, founded and edited by Manabendra Nath Roy
• The Vanguard (January-March 1853), a short-lived socialist paper published by George Julian Harney
• The Vanguard, student weekly of Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts
• The Viking Vanguard, student newspaper at Puyallup High School in Puyallup, Washington
• Workers Vanguard, a newspaper published by the U.S. wing of International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)

Comics and anime

• Vanguard (comics), a mutant Russian character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Vanguard (Image Comics), an alien superhero in Megaton and Savage Dragon
• A Vanguard is a high-tech humanoid robot in the anime Vandread

Games and toys

• Vanguard (video game), a 1981 shooter game with 1984 sequel, Vanguard II
• Vanguard Bandits, a 2000 Japanese tactical role-playing game for PlayStation
• Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, a 2007 MMORPG created by Sigil Games Online and Sony Online Entertainment
• Medal of Honor: Vanguard, a first person shooter game created by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2 and Wii
• Vanguard, an organization in the computer game, The Longest Journey
• Vanguard, the droid partner of the Transformers toy, Sideswipe
• Vanguard, a variant of the collectible card game, Magic: The Gathering
• Vanguard, a tank in Tanarus, a free online game made by Sony in 1997
• Vanguard, a character class in the video game, Mass Effect
• Vanguard, a UN-funded military organisation in the City of Heroes universe
• Vanguard, a group of characters in the video game, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
• Vanguard Beggar, a character role for the clan of the League of Beggars in the MMORPG 9Dragons by Acclaim
• Crystal Defenders: Vanguard Storm, a game that uses elements from Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
• Vanguard Princess is a fighting game for the PC engine.
• Vanguard, a name shared by the enemies in Dynamis, in the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI

Music

• Vanguard (synthesizer), a software synthesizer developed by reFX
• Vanguard Records, an independent record label founded in 1950
• The Vanguards, a 1960s Norwegian rock band
• Village Vanguard, a jazz club in New York City, founded in 1935
• MTV Video Vanguard Award, an award started in 1984 and given intermittently to musicians, music video directors and filmmakers
• Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, a World Class corps based in Santa Clara, California
• Vanguard -of the muses-, an album by Japanese band Exist Trace

Other uses

• Vanguard (microkernel), developed at Apple Computer
• Vanguard (racehorse), 1843 Grand National winner
• Vanguard (TV series), a journalistic reporting series
• Vanguard, California, a community in the San Joaquin Valley
• Vanguard, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Vanguard 15, one-design racing dinghy made by Vanguard Sailboats
• Standard Vanguard, a car produced by the British Standard Motor Company from 1947 to 1963
• Toyota Vanguard, a Japanese compact crossover sport utility vehicle
• QW-1 Vanguard, an advanced Chinese surface-to-air missile
• U.P. Vanguards, ROTC unit at the University of the Philippines
• Vanguard Award, presented annually at the GLAAD Media Awards

See also

• Avant-garde
• Daniel Vangarde, French songwriter and producer

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