Vanguard

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

hips

* 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

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

Weapons

* QW-1 "Vanguard", an advanced Chinese surface-to-air missile

pace

* 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 Marxist
* Vanguardism, a strategy whereby an organization attempts to place itself at the center of a revolutionary movement
* Vanguard Progressive Unionist 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-animated movie studio
* The Vanguard Group, a U.S. investment management company founded in 1975
* Vanguard Sailboats, a Wisconsin builder of racing and recreational sailboats
* Vanguard Health Systems, a U.S. operator of hospitals and other medical facilities
* Vanguard Cellular, a U.S. cellular phone company founded in 1984

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

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" (arcade game), a 1981 shooter game with 1984 sequel, "Vanguard II"
* "Vanguard Bandits", a 2000 Japanese tactical role-playing game for PlayStation
* "", a 2007 MMORPG created by Sigil Games Online and Sony Online Entertainment
* "", 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 which uses character cards to alter the rules of play
* Vanguard, a tank in "Tanarus", a free online game made by Sony in 1997
* Vanguard, a character class in the "Mass Effect" video game
* Vanguard, a UN-funded military organisation in the "City of Heroes" universe

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

Other uses

* Standard Vanguard, a car produced by the British Standard Motor Company from 1947 to 1963
* Vanguard (microkernel), developed at Apple Computer
* Vanguard (racehorse), 1843 Grand National winner
* Vanguard 15, one-design racing dinghy made by Vanguard Sailboats
* Vanguard Award, presented annually at the GLAAD Media Awards
* Vanguard, Saskatchewan, Canada
* Toyota Vanguard, a Japanese compact crossover sport utility vehicle
* Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, based in Santa Clara, California
* U.P. Vanguard Fraternity, a college fraternity of the University of the Philippines

ee also

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