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Vanguard



Vanguard may refer to:

Games and toys

* Vanguard (arcade game) (1981), a shooter game
** Vanguard II (arcade game) (1984), sequel to the above
* Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, a massively multiplayer role-playing game
* 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 Bandits (2000), a tactical RPG

Military

* Vanguard, the forward division in an army
* Vanguard, the leading squadron or division of a fleet
* HMS Vanguard, a common name for ships in the Royal Navy
* USNS Vanguard (T-AGM-19), the lead ship in a class of Missile Range Instrumentation Ships
* Project Vanguard, an early U.S. satellite program
** Vanguard rocket, used in Project Vanguard
* 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

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

Newspapers

* The Vanguard (January 1853 - March 1853), a short-lived socialist paper published by George Julian Harney
* Vanguard (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Nigeria
* Daily Vanguard, a student-run newspaper at Portland State University

Comics and anime

* Vanguard (comic), a science fiction themed sprite comic
* Vanguard, a superhero humanoid alien in Image Comics assigned the job of protecting earth from invasion
* Vanguard, a humanoid mecha (used by the male faction) in the anime Vandread

Other uses

* Vanguard Airlines was an airline based in Kansas City from 1994 to 2002
* 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
* Santa Clara Vanguard, a Division I modern drum and bugle corps based in Santa Clara, California
* Vanguard Animation, a computer graphics/movie studio
* Vanguard (synthesizer), a VSTi plug-in developed by reFX software

See also

*Avant-garde



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