PT-76 | ... M113 Armored Personnel Carrier and the M2 Bradley. Soviet examples are the | amphibious tank, and the BTR-50 and MT-LB APCs based on its chassis |
DDG 96 | ... troyer/cruiser (CGN-25), and a contemporary Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ( | ). Bainbridge Island, Washington is named after Commodore Bainbridge, as w ... |
USS Indianapolis | ... Notable naval vessels built at New York Ship include the ill-fated cruiser | and the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. In 1962, the first commercial nuc ... |
Panzer III | ... craft into a dedicated bomber destroyer. The BK 5 cannon - derived from the | tank's main armament, the 50 mm (2 in) KwK 39 L/60 - allowed the Me 410s t ... |
HMS Nestor | ... the valorious conduct of Commander The Hon. Edward Bingham whilst on board | while fighting in the Battle of Jutland in July 1916 for which he received ... |
Alvis Saladin | ... tanks, 70 reconnaissance vehicles (20 Panhard AML-60, 40 Panhard AML-90, 10 | ) 25 wheeled APCs (estimate 20 Panhard M3 and 5 Alvis Saracen), 194 artill ... |
Tsesarevich | ... er attack on the Russian ships at Port Arthur. The attack badly damaged the | and Retvizan, the heaviest battleships in Russia's far Eastern theater, an ... |
CATOBAR | The angled flight decks of the carriers use a | arrangement to operate aircraft, with steam catapults and arrestor wires f ... |
Heinkel He 277 | ... meter, three-blade propeller for multi-engined use, such as on the proposed | Amerika Bomber four engined strategic bomber design. The E model was also ... |
Fairey Swordfish | ... hat company. Two Bristol Pegasus engines remain airworthy in 2010, powering | aircraft operated by the Royal Navy Historic Flight, other examples are pr ... |
M24 | It is equipped with 15 Israeli Ti-67 (T-55) main battle tanks, 17 American | and 46 M41A1 Walker Bulldog light tanks, 24 American M113A1 armored person ... |
Retvizan | ... Russian ships at Port Arthur. The attack badly damaged the Tsesarevich and | , the heaviest battleships in Russia's far Eastern theater, and the 6,600 ... |
DUKW | With more than 20,000 units produced, the | was the most successful amphibious truck of World War II. This 6x6 truck w ... |
HMS Illustrious | In August 1941, Mountbatten was appointed captain of | which lay in Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs following action at Malta in t ... |
HMS Surveillante | Wellesley arrived in Lisbon on 22 April 1809 onboard | , after narrowly escaping shipwreck. Reinforced, he took to the offensive. ... |
HMS Charybdis | ... ts could be highly effective, as in the action in which the British cruiser | was sunk off Brittany by a torpedo salvo launched by the Elbing-class torp ... |
Consolidated B-24 Liberator | ... increasingly utilize the airfield, sending Boeing B-29 Superfortresses and | heavy bombers and Douglas B-18 Bolo which were used both for training and ... |
USS New Jersey (BB-62) | The | was a U.S. Navy battleship that was intermittently active between the year ... |
PT-76 | ... , as the prototypes were entering testing, information about the new Soviet | tank became available. The PT-76 was an amphibious light tank, and soon th ... |
USS Constitution | ... e of Madeira was also used by visiting Captain James Server to christen the | in 1797 |
Kaga | The D3A1 commenced carrier qualification trials aboard the Akagi and | during 1940, while a small number of aircraft made their combat debut from ... |
BRDM-2 | ... e amphibious, or could ford deep water. Wheeled examples are the BRDM-1 and | 4x4 armored scout cars, as well as the BTR-60, BTR-70, BTR-80 and BTR-94 8 ... |
Lützow | ... Sheffield and Jamaica jointly attacked and drove off the pocket battleship | (sister ship to the Graf Spee), and the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, at t ... |
CATOBAR | ... ed infrequently on earlier ships and was therefore deemed unnecessary. This | arrangement allows for faster launching and recovery as well as a much wid ... |
M48 | ... 113 APC), 930 M113s (APC/ACAVs), 120 V-100s (wheeled armored cars), and 190 | tanks; however on the , a US effort in November 1972 managed to transfer 5 ... |
Amagiri | ... yed afloat for 12 hours after she was cut in half by the Japanese destroyer | . PT-323 (Elco) was cut in half by a kamikaze aircraft on December 10, 194 ... |
M2 Bradley | ... obstacles. American examples are the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier and the | . Soviet examples are the PT-76 amphibious tank, and the BTR-50 and MT-LB ... |
M-1097 Avenger | ... officially it requires two. The FIM-92B missile can also be fired from the | and M6 Linebacker. The missile is also capable of being deployed from a Hu ... |
T-62 | ... -21 jet fighters, SA-2, SA-3, SA-6 and SA-7 antiaircraft missiles, T-55 and | tanks, RPG-7 antitank weapons, and the AT-3 Sagger anti-tank guided missil ... |
USS Kitty Hawk | ... hip include the ill-fated cruiser USS Indianapolis and the aircraft carrier | . In 1962, the first commercial nuclear-powered ship, the NS Savannah, was ... |
USS Philadelphia | ... not work, and decided to use force, Bainbridge was placed In command of the | , tasked with enforcing a blockade of Tripoli. Bainbridge mistakenly ran t ... |
U-boat | ... ort. During the Second World War the port declined in importance due to the | threat. Halifax's protected harbour offered improved convoy marshaling. Ho ... |
Flottentorpedoboot | ... be inadequate in combat, and the result was a "fleet torpedo boat" class ( | ), which were significantly larger, up to 1,700 tons, being in fact small ... |
DKW Munga | The | was built by Auto Union in Ingolstadt. Production began in October 1956 an ... |
B-17 | American | bombers based in Australia and staging through Port Moresby attacked the a ... |
Principe de Asturias | ... roposed vessel was based on the design of the Spanish Navy aircraft carrier | , which in turn was based on the United States Navy's Sea Control Ship con ... |
M48 Patton series | Tanks of the ROK Army include the older | , as well as the more recent K1, K1A1 which bear a 120 mm smooth-bore gun ... |
Leclerc | ... d T-80UD and T-84 with nearly the power of the gas-turbine tank. The French | MBT's diesel powerplant features the "Hyperbar" hybrid supercharging syste ... |
USS New Jersey | ... ware River. The waterfront is highlighted by its four main attractions, the | ; the Susquehanna Bank Center; Campbell's Field; and the Adventure Aquariu ... |
HMCS Chicoutimi (SSK 879) | On October 5 2004 | , sailing from Faslane Naval Base, Scotland to Nova Scotia declared an eme ... |
Álvaro de Bazán class frigate | The carrier has an escort group of four | s, built in Spain, equipped with the AEGIS combat system and armed with Ha ... |
pocket battleship | ... battle of 1939, between a Royal Navy force of three cruisers and the German | Admiral Graf Spee. Unlike many British war movies of its time, The Battle ... |
HMS Renown | ... approved in January 1975. The system became operational in mid-1982 on the | , and the last British SSBN submarine was equipped with it in mid-1987. Wi ... |
Dornier Do 217 | ... ns of the 801A/L engines include multiple variants of the Junkers Ju 88 and | |
T-90 | ... . Russia has stopped production of the T-80 in favour of the diesel-powered | (based on the T-72), while Ukraine has developed the diesel-powered T-80UD ... |
Yokosuka D4Y | When the | Suisei became available, the D3A2s ended up with land-based units or opera ... |
HMS Conqueror | ... n (Mod 2) passed sea trials in 1978 and was issued the following year. When | sank the ARA General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands war she used the " ... |
aircraft carrier | ... s. To offset this, it has begun developing power projection assets, such as | s, and has established a network of foreign military relationships that ha ... |
Tiger II | ... ads, but these proved unsuitable for heavy armored vehicles, especially the | tanks attached to the Kampfgruppe |
Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier | ... h Shipyard has been awarded a share of the construction work on the two new | s. This will create 3000 new jobs in the city |
Whitley | ... on of five main aircraft types (the Spitfire and Hurricane fighters and the | , Wellington and the Blenheim bombers). As a result development of the Typ ... |
Scharnhorst | She was sunk along with HMS Monmouth by the German armoured cruisers | and Gneisenau under Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee with the loss of her ... |
USS Saratoga | ... the VF-103 "Sluggers" of Carrier Air Wing 17, based on the aircraft carrier | , on October 10 and directed to land at Naval Air Station Sigonella, a N.A ... |
HMS Howe | ... of India ended in March 1805, the brothers returned together to England on | . Arthur, coincidentally, stopped on his voyage at the little island of Sa ... |
Mark I tank | ... trench lines on the Western Front. To commemorate this, the only surviving | was sited at Hatfield from 1919 until 1970 before being moved to the Bovin ... |
C1W reactor | ... the world's first nuclear cruiser, the USS Long Beach (CGN-9), which used a | . All of the Navy's nuclear cruisers have been decommissioned |
M2 Bradley | ... ver instead had to take steering directions from the vehicle commander. The | would adopt a similar solution, but dropped it with upgraded armor |
DD tank | ... hibious mode in which a fabric skirt is needed to add buoyancy. The Sherman | used in the D-Day invasion had this setup. When in water the waterproof fl ... |
Komet | ... and as co-trustees. On 6 and 7 December 1940, the German auxiliary cruisers | and Orion sank four supply ships in the vicinity of Nauru. On the next day ... |
U-boat | SM U-19 was a German Type U 19 | built for the Kaiserliche Marine. Her construction was ordered on 25 Novem ... |
Land Rover Series | ... body rather than body-on-frame), International Harvester Travelall (1953), | II 109 (1958), and the International Harvester Scout 80 (1961). These were ... |
SMS König | The three sister battleships of the König class, the | , SMS Kronprinz and Markgraf, which together formed the main component of ... |
BRDM-1 | ... esigned were amphibious, or could ford deep water. Wheeled examples are the | and BRDM-2 4x4 armored scout cars, as well as the BTR-60, BTR-70, BTR-80 a ... |
Admiral Hipper | ... ket battleship Lützow (sister ship to the Graf Spee), and the heavy cruiser | , at the Battle of the Barents Sea, when the Germans attempted to intercep ... |
Elbing-class torpedo boat | ... iser HMS Charybdis was sunk off Brittany by a torpedo salvo launched by the | s T23 and T27 |
BTR-40 | ... versions), ZIL-157 military trucks, Katyusha multiple rocket launchers, and | and BTR-152 armored personnel carriers. Also included were PPSh-41 and RPK ... |
Halifax class | ... the 1980s-early 1990s the shipyard was responsible for building 9 of the 12 | multi-purpose patrol frigates for the Canadian Navy. However, the shipyard ... |
Essex class | ... d that the carriers could withstand three times the damage sustained by the | inflicted by Japanese air attacks during World War II. The hangars on the ... |
USS Bonhomme Richard | During the American Revolution, Texel was used as a haven port for the | before it sank off the coast of Flamborough Head in Britain in September 1 ... |
Junkers Ju 88 | ... . Major applications of the 801A/L engines include multiple variants of the | and Dornier Do 217 |
T-72 | ... d production of the T-80 in favour of the diesel-powered T-90 (based on the | ), while Ukraine has developed the diesel-powered T-80UD and T-84 with nea ... |
HMS Ramillies | ... as a midshipman in January 1940. Philip spent four months on the battleship | , protecting convoys of the Australian Expeditionary Force in the Indian O ... |
Type 209/1200 | ... s corvettes, 4 Terrebonne Parish class landing ships, 2 Type 209/1100 and 4 | class German-built diesel submarines (the biggest submarine force in South ... |
Akagi | The D3A1 commenced carrier qualification trials aboard the | and Kaga during 1940, while a small number of aircraft made their combat d ... |
Gneisenau | ... unk along with HMS Monmouth by the German armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and | under Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee with the loss of her entire complem ... |
Type 209/1100 | ... Peru), 6 PR-72P class corvettes, 4 Terrebonne Parish class landing ships, 2 | and 4 Type 209/1200 class German-built diesel submarines (the biggest subm ... |
USS Dallas | ... the silent drive is engaged, the submarine disappears off the sonar of the | , a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, which was tracking Red Octobe ... |
ARA General Belgrano | ... ials in 1978 and was issued the following year. When HMS Conqueror sank the | during the 1982 Falklands war she used the "point and shoot" Mark 8 torped ... |
HMS Illustrious | ... ate the prince on Mustique in July 1982. Though he had brief assignments to | , RNAS Culdrose, and the Joint Services School of Intelligence, Prince And ... |
He 177A Greif | ... Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter, which was initially test-towed behind an | bomber. The pulse-jet, internal systems and warhead of the missile were re ... |
Mitsubishi Type 1 | ... al floatplanes from Deboyne, four Kawanishi Type 97s from Tulagi, and three | bombers from Rabaul. Each side readied the rest of its carrier attack airc ... |
USS America | ... r assistance reached the Sixth Fleet at this time, and the aircraft carrier | dispatched eight aircraft. The carrier had been in the middle of strategic ... |
Heinkel He 111 | ... or the Stab & I/KG53 (Staff & 1st Group of Kampfgeschwader 53) operating 38 | bombers. On 1 September 1939 this unit was one of the many that participat ... |
Red October | ... United States with his officers on board the experimental nuclear submarine | , a Typhoon-class vessel equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion ... |
M41 Walker Bulldog | ... 34,000 M79 grenade launchers, 40,000 radios, 20,000 quarter-ton trucks, 214 | light tanks, 77 M577 Command tracks (command version of the M113 APC), 930 ... |
USS Spuyten Duyvil | ... federate ironclad CSS Albermarle. Also the same year the Union launched the | , a purpose-built craft with a number of technical innovations including v ... |
BB-64 | Two U.S. Navy battleships, BB-9 and | , were named USS Wisconsin in honor of this state |
T-80 | ... e been used as APUs in some tanks and as main powerplants in Soviet/Russian | s and U.S. M1 Abrams tanks, among others. They are lighter and smaller tha ... |
U-boat | ... f driving the Germans from the North Sea coast of Belgium, from which their | s were menacing Britain. Although there was no formal order of seniority, ... |
DD tank | ... ncy and propellers driven by the main engine to give propulsion. These were | s (from "Duplex Drive") and the Sherman DD was used on D-Day to provide cl ... |
T-38 | ... e World War II, The Soviets produced light amphibious tanks called T-37 and | . A third serial model, T-40, started production after the beginning of th ... |
Type 212 submarine | ... storage in an internal combustion engine or fuel cell. Various submarines ( | , Type 214 submarine) and concept hydrogen vehicles have been built using ... |
Churchill tank | ... use is by the British 79th Armoured Division, using a "Bullshorn" plow on a | on Sword Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy (this was one of Hob ... |
Prinz Eugen | ... man E-boats and destroyers defended the flotilla of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, | and several smaller ships against RN MTBs |
Capetown | ... assie and his entourage sailed for Gibraltar aboard the British cruiser HMS | . From Gibraltar, the exiles were transferred to an ordinary liner. By doi ... |
HMS Valiant | ... in October 1940, he was transferred from the Indian Ocean to the battleship | in the Mediterranean Fleet. Among other engagements, he was involved in th ... |
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... 6. It is preserved at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. | , the second Nimitz-class supercarrier, was named in his honor |
Hunley | ... for example, can be traced via underwater archaeological research, via the | which was the first submarine to sink an enemy ship (Hunley also had uniqu ... |
BMP-1 | ... s ordered. Armored vehicles delivered in the 1970s also included: ZIL-135s, | s, BRDM-2s, BTR-60s, UAZ-469, and GAZ-66 as well as large quantities of sm ... |
Fairey Swordfish | Some notable users of the Pegasus were the | , Vickers Wellington, and Short Sunderland. It was also used on the Anbo 4 ... |
Gneisenau | ... 42 when German E-boats and destroyers defended the flotilla of Scharnhorst, | , Prinz Eugen and several smaller ships against RN MTBs |
USS Wright (CVL-49) | The | was converted into Command ship (CC-2) between 1962 and 1963 and included ... |
USS Oklahoma | ... chmitt (1909–1941), the first chaplain to die in World War II, on board the | during the Pearl Harbor bombin |
Baden | The British did eventually manage to beach the battleship | , the light cruisers Nürnberg, Frankfurt and Emden, together with 18 destr ... |
Type 214 submarine | ... nal combustion engine or fuel cell. Various submarines (Type 212 submarine, | ) and concept hydrogen vehicles have been built using this form of hydroge ... |
Mark IX tank | At the end of World War I a | had airdrums attached to the side and was tested as an Amphibious vehicle |
Resurgam II | ... vessels and was one of the only historic warships ever raised intact), the | , the first powered submarine, and Holland 5, which provides insight into ... |
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress | ... wet conditions. EAA celebrated the 75th Anniversary of the Douglas DC-3 and | . The Erickson Air-Crane and Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey also returned. Also, ... |
M1 Abrams | ... APUs in some tanks and as main powerplants in Soviet/Russian T-80s and U.S. | tanks, among others. They are lighter and smaller than diesels at the same ... |
T-34 | ... ep the military up to date. It was mainly Sukhoi Su-7, MiG-21 fighter jets, | and Iosif Stalin tanks, SU-76 self-propelled guns, GAZ-69 4x4 light trucks ... |
U-boat | ... he help of tugs. Eventually it was returned to shipping. On May 3, the same | sunk the SS Laertes close to the same place. Local boys were recruited for ... |
Scharnhorst | ... 43 both Sheffield and Jamaica participated in the sinking of the battleship | at the Battle of North Cape; Sheffield, with Belfast and Norfolk, opened t ... |
Type 214 submarine | ... hed; in 2006, the ROK Navy launched the Sohn Won-yil (SS 072), an 1,800-ton | with Air-Independent propulsion (AIP) system. In 2007, the ROK Navy launch ... |
Scharnhorst | ... n February 1942 when German E-boats and destroyers defended the flotilla of | , Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen and several smaller ships against RN MTBs |
Orion | ... trustees. On 6 and 7 December 1940, the German auxiliary cruisers Komet and | sank four supply ships in the vicinity of Nauru. On the next day, Komet sh ... |
USS Iowa | The ship was used as a stand in for the | in the ABC miniseries War and Remembrance. The number 60 is clearly visibl ... |
HMS Invincible | ... ont-line unit, 820 Naval Air Squadron, serving aboard the aircraft carrier, | |
Junkers Ju 188 | Some Me 410s were utilized with | s during the Battle of Normandy for high-altitude night reconnaissance mis ... |
HMS Warrior | ... oldest dry dock still in use and also home to some famous ships, including | , the Tudor carrack Mary Rose and Lord Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. Alt ... |
U-boat | ... otor kite, the Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 "Bachstelze" (Water-wagtail), towed by | s to provide aerial surveillance. These aircraft had a significant radar s ... |
H. L. Hunley | ... nfederate city. The first submarine to successfully sink an enemy ship, the | , was built in Mobile. One of the most famous naval engagements of the war ... |
USS Forrestal | ... z conducted a Freedom of Navigation exercise alongside the aircraft carrier | in August 1981 in the Gulf of Sidra, near Libya. During this exercise, two ... |
B-17 Flying Fortress | ... rcraft. The company had produced innovative and important bombers, from the | and B-29 Superfortress, to the jet-powered B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratof ... |
Petropavlovsk | On 12 April 1904, two Russian pre-dreadnought battleships, the flagship | and the Pobeda, slipped out of port but struck Japanese mines off Port Art ... |
Stuart tank | ... my named two models of American-made World War II tanks, the M3 and M5, the | in General Stuart's honor. A high school in Falls Church, Virginia and a m ... |
U-boat | ... th minefields, artillery, and concrete barriers starting in 1914. No German | s were able to enter the harbour during the war, and only two attempts wer ... |
Fletcher class destroyer | ... bsidiary of Waterman Steamship Corporation, focused on building freighters, | s, and minesweepers |
USS Northampton (CLC-1) | The | was converted into Command ship CC-1 between 1961 |
DeepC | ... concept hydrogen vehicles have been built using this form of hydrogen (see | , BMW H2R). Due to its similarity, builders can sometimes modify and share ... |
Iosif Stalin tank | ... litary up to date. It was mainly Sukhoi Su-7, MiG-21 fighter jets, T-34 and | s, SU-76 self-propelled guns, GAZ-69 4x4 light trucks of jeep class (in ma ... |
T-72 | ... USD $80 million worth of military equipment from Ukraine which included 20 | main battle tanks, 100 trucks and various small arms. 20 x T-72 have been ... |
USS Saratoga | ... he ship's identity. Shorlty before the Libertys identity was confirmed, the | launched eight warplanes armed with conventional weapons towards the Liber ... |
T-54/55 | The IISS listed equipment in 2007 as including 35 | main battle tanks, 70 reconnaissance vehicles (20 Panhard AML-60, 40 Panha ... |
USS Drum | ... ship on 9 January 1965. She was joined in 1969 by the Gato-class submarine | which was moored behind Alabama until it was damaged in , resulting in its ... |
41 for Freedom | ... enjamin Franklin class, together with the , , , and classes, comprise the " | . |
Kate | ... rs had to frequently combine their attacks upon enemy warships with the IJN | torpedo bomber; consequently enemy vessels were often sunk by a combinatio ... |
USS Edson (DD-946) | ... l Ship Museum is working through the Naval Sea Systems Command to bring the | to Bay City as a museum ship; the Navy is expected to make a decision in t ... |
G4M2e | ... he "Ohka", the true origin is unknown. The MXY-7 was usually carried by the | version of the Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" naval bomber, then the pilot lit the ... |
HMS Badger | ... of becoming the first U-boat casualty of World War I when she was rammed by | on 29 October 1914. Her hull was badly damaged, but she survived and was r ... |
Amerika Bomber | ... ade propeller for multi-engined use, such as on the proposed Heinkel He 277 | four engined strategic bomber design. The E model was also used as the bas ... |
Tiger I | ... 43 was over 1.3 meters longer than that of the 8.8 cm KwK L/56 used for the | . The cartridge was also considerably taller (at 822 mm) and wider than th ... |
Conqueror tank | ... d for tanks by C. A. Parsons & Co., was installed and trialled in a British | . The Stridsvagn 103 was developed in the 1950s and was the first mass pro ... |
T-40 | ... produced light amphibious tanks called T-37 and T-38. A third serial model, | , started production after the beginning of the war. A 14 ton tank, PT-1 w ... |
USS Missouri (BB-63) | ... e went to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, drawing wiring for the battleship | , and other classified military work |
De Havilland Mosquito | ... ufacturing expanded considerably, notably the production of veneer wood for | bomber aircraft. On account of the U-boat threat, additional batteries fac ... |
Panther tank | ... bine engines used for armoured fighting vehicle GT 101 was installed in the | |
LARC-LX | ... upplies onto the beaches the US used the 1950s designed LARC-V and the huge | or "BARC". At long and wide the latter is one of the largest wheeled amphi ... |
USS Oriskany | ... the Forrestal out of commission, McCain volunteered for assignment with the | , another aircraft carrier employed in Operation Rolling Thunder. Once the ... |
CSS Scorpion | The CSS Squib and | represented another class of torpedo boats that were also low built but ha ... |
Torpedo boat type 35 | ... "-prefixed hull numbers. The classes designed in the mid-1930s, such as the | , had few guns, relying almost entirely upon their torpedoes. This was fou ... |
Type 99 | ... all of his available aircraft. A total of 78 aircraft—18 Zero fighters, 36 | dive bombers, and 24 torpedo aircraft—began launching from Shōkaku and Zui ... |
Tiger tank | ... to come ashore from landing craft in shallow water. The Germans gave their | a long snorkel, essentially a long tube on the commander's hatch that allo ... |
Renault FT-17 | Towards the end of the First World War, the French mounted a plow on their | tank. The first recorded combat use is by the British 79th Armoured Divisi ... |
U-boat | ... he war. Their high speeds allowed them to outrun hazards, foremostly German | s, allowing them to typically travel without a convoy. During her war serv ... |
HMAS Diamantina | ... n Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship | . Arrangements were made to repatriate from Chuuk the 737 Nauruans who sur ... |
USS Holland | ... April 1900, after rigorous tests and was commissioned on 12 October 1900 as | . Six more of her type were ordered and built at the Crescent Shipyard in ... |
Coastal Motor Boat | ... rful engines could make use of planing hull designs, such as in the British | , capable of much higher speed under appropriate sea conditions than displ ... |
German submarines | After repeated attacks by | on U.S. ships, Roosevelt announced on 11 September 1941 that he had ordere ... |
BB-9 | Two U.S. Navy battleships, | and BB-64, were named USS Wisconsin in honor of this state |
M-113 | ... des several types of tanks (T-55 and AMX-13), armoured personnel carriers ( | , UR-416), artillery (D30, M101, M109 and M114 howitzers), antiaircraft sy ... |
U-boat | ... ary concept was that it was not only playable on-line with or against other | s, but also against destroyers that were controlled by players of Destroye ... |
BAP Almirante Grau (CLM-81) | The Pacific fleet flagship is the cruiser | , named for the 19th-century Peruvian Admiral who fought in the War of the ... |
Stridsvagn 103 | ... Parsons & Co., was installed and trialled in a British Conqueror tank. The | was developed in the 1950s and was the first mass produced main battle tan ... |
German battleship Tirpitz | In World War II, the | used Kåfjord, an arm of Altafjord, as a harbor, and was damaged here by at ... |
U-47 | On 14 October 1939, under the command of Günther Prien, | penetrated Scapa Flow and sank the World War I–era battleship anchored in ... |
Arado Ar 234 | There were plans, not put into practice, to use the | jet bomber to launch V-1s either by towing them aloft or by launching them ... |
BRDM-2 | ... d. Armored vehicles delivered in the 1970s also included: ZIL-135s, BMP-1s, | s, BTR-60s, UAZ-469, and GAZ-66 as well as large quantities of small arms ... |
T-72 | ... included 20 T-72 main battle tanks, 100 trucks and various small arms. 20 x | have been reported by World Defence Almanac. Tanks have been used in the K ... |
Mitsubishi Type 96 | ... included 12 torpedo-armed Type 1 bombers and the second group comprised 19 | land attack aircraft armed with bombs. Both groups found and attacked Crac ... |
pocket battleship | ... roups whose mission is to stop them. The group that finds the heavily-armed | Admiral Graf Spee near South America is outgunned: Graf Spee is equipped w ... |
Bv202 | Examples of this concept are the Russian models, the Swedish Volvo | and Hagglunds designs, and Singapore |
USS Merrimack | ... rate ironclad warship CSS Virginia was rebuilt using the burned-out hulk of | . Virginia engaged the Union ironclad USS Monitor in the famous Battle of ... |
T-72 | ... tanks, they would not have been very effective against the Soviet-designed | s which comprised the bulk of the Iraqi Republican Guard. Their role was l ... |
Junkers Ju 88 | Three days after this submarine attack, four Luftwaffe | bombers raided Scapa Flow in one of the first bombing attacks on Britain d ... |
USS Davis | ... e the area under her own power. The Liberty was later met by the destroyers | and USS Massey, and the cruiser USS Little Rock. Medical personnel were tr ... |
U-boat | ... umored that it was used to send the message to order the attack by a German | on the RMS Lusitania. After President Wilson's , the President the US Navy ... |
in service with | ... tz-class supercarriers are a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers | the United States Navy. The lead ship of the class is named for World War ... |
USS Douglas H. Fox (DD-779) | When the American fleet arrives, the destroyer, | , is shown from stock footage and recognizable by the large numbers 779 pa ... |
T-92 | ... n even lighter replacement mounting the same gun, resulting in the T-71 and | test designs. Two prototypes of the 19 ton T-92 were later ordered. Howeve ... |
HMS Whelp | ... the ship to slip away unnoticed. In 1944, he moved on to the new destroyer, | , where he saw service with the British Pacific Fleet in the 27th Destroye ... |
SSBN | The USS George Washington was the first fleet ballistic missile submarine ( | in U.S. naval terminology) and she and all of the other Polaris submarines ... |
T-62 | ... 2 and Il-28 jets. In addition to that the nation possessed great many T-55, | , and PT-76 battle tanks along with huge amounts of AK-47 assault rifles o ... |
Exeter | ... ng-range 11-inch guns, while the three British cruisers, Ajax, Achilles and | , have much lighter 8-inch and 6-inch guns. Despite this, they go straight ... |
HMS Ashanti | ... (Tribal class) frigates with combined steam and gas powerplants. The first, | was commissioned in 1961 |
PT-76 | Some light tanks such as the | are amphibious, typically being propelled in the water by hydrojets or by ... |
De Havilland Mosquito | ... Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965), an aircraft designer, notably of the | , and founder of the aircraft company which bore his name. Her paternal gr ... |
LARC-V | ... aking vehicles and supplies onto the beaches the US used the 1950s designed | and the huge LARC-LX or "BARC". At long and wide the latter is one of the ... |
Holland II | John Philip Holland also designed the | and Holland III prototypes |
T-72 | ... Venezuela has shown interest on the following weapons: TOR-M1 SAM systems, | tanks, Su-35 jet fighters and Il-76 military cargo aircraft. Despite of th ... |
Leclerc | ... ection system and reactive armor comparable to the American M1A2 and French | |
Korean Submarine (KSS) program | ... Landing Platform Experimental (LPX), Patrol Killer Experimental (PKX), and | |
S-80 class | ... n 1973 and 1975 and are now retired. The Spanish armada is constructing new | submarine with long range, conventional propulsion and new anti-detection ... |
Lancaster bomber | ... Cockcroft, aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the | Roy Chadwick, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mor ... |
USS Massey | ... er her own power. The Liberty was later met by the destroyers USS Davis and | , and the cruiser USS Little Rock. Medical personnel were transferred to t ... |
Kilo class submarine | ... ia a loan of about $800 million for the acquisition of 4 diesel Project 636 | s. During that time Venezuela was also considering the purchase of 12 Il-7 ... |
Vanguard class submarine | ... Trident, decided to follow the same route and authorized the design of the | to carry them. They agreed to a deal whereby the US and British combined m ... |
Armoured fighting vehicle | ... tracked armored vehicles that are primarily intended for land-use, such as | s and Infantry fighting vehicles nevertheless also have amphibious ability ... |
USS Harry S. Truman | ... e Fox NFL Sunday crew, doing their pregame show aboard the aircraft carrier | , while Fox covered the game live. Bradshaw expressed regret that he could ... |
Project Habakkuk | Another project that Mountbatten proposed to Churchill was | . It was to be a massive and impregnable 600-metre aircraft carrier made f ... |
T-62 | ... eneral Shazly ordered the 21st Armored Division to attack southward and the | -equipped 25th Independent Armored Brigade to attack northward in a pincer ... |
PZL.23 Karaś | ... Pegasus was also licensed by the PZL company in Poland. It was used on the | and PZL.37 Łoś bombers |
Daphné class submarine | ... d with the submarine-launched version of the Exocet anti-ship missile. Four | s were completed between 1973 and 1975 and are now retired. The Spanish ar ... |
HMS Ark Royal | ... itish Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force, including the aircraft carrier | to the Gulf region. The ground component included 100 Challenger tanks. Th ... |
M48 Patton | ... ntry. In 1969, armored cavalry units (minus the 11th ACR which retained its | tank companies) began replacing their M48 Patton tanks, which in turn were ... |
HMS Warrior | ... erable criticism due to its huge size and location. It also involves moving | from her current permanent mooring. The HMS Warrior trust is refusing to m ... |
HMS Montrose | ... ng a fire. The Chicoutimi lost power and was rescued by Royal Navy frigates | and Marlborough on October 6. Lt(N) Chris Saunders died subsequently from ... |
U-boat | German submarine U-489 was a Type XIV supply and replenishment | ("Milchkuh") of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II |
Holland III | John Philip Holland also designed the Holland II and | prototypes |
USS President | ... change to this policy in early 1809. Bainbridge took command of the frigate | in 1809 and began patrolling off the Atlantic coast in September of that y ... |
M48 Patton | However, the Sheridan did not get stuck in the mud as often as the 52 ton | tank did, nor did it throw its track off as often as the Patton. This alon ... |
Dornier Do 17 | ... the event all except two served in the Luftwaffe. Like its predecessor, the | , it inherited the title "The Flying Pencil" because of its slim fuselage. ... |
USS Lake Champlain | ... t time in March 1959. Carrier suitability trials were conducted onboard the | and were completed in mid-1961. In late 1961 and early 1962, a modified ea ... |
USS Constitution | ... of the academy were transported to Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island by the | in April 1861 and setup in temporary facilities and opened there in May |
M-60 | ... -130 cargo airplanes, 8 CH-53 helicopters, 40 unmanned aerial vehicles, 200 | /M-48A3 tanks, 250 armored personnel carriers, 226 utility vehicles, 12 MI ... |
heavy cruiser | ... 6 that led to the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). Two coastal battleships, one | , one large destroyer and half a dozen submarines and auxiliary vessels we ... |
Kilo class submarine | ... xpected in June 2007 to finalize the acquisition of five diesel Project 636 | s, and at a later date finalize the acquisition of four diesel Project 677 ... |
HNoMS Rap | ... hed in 1878 though she had been ordered in 1875. The Royal Norwegian Navy's | —the name meaning 'fast'— was ordered from Thornycroft, England in 1873, b ... |
Korean Destroyer Experimental (KDX) program | ... sed array radar. The ROK Navy is undertaking several shipbuilding projects: | , Frigate Experimental (FFX), Landing Platform Experimental (LPX), Patrol ... |
T-90 | All modern Soviet/Russian tanks like the | are also able to perform deep fording operations, however unlike the Leopa ... |
Enterprise | ... day, the Ethiopian exiles had left Djibouti aboard the British cruiser HMS | . They were bound for Jerusalem in the British Mandate of Palestine, where ... |
M60 | ... vation of its last (M103) heavy tank battalion, and the fielding of the new | series tank, the U.S. Army had adopted a main battle tank (MBT) doctrine; ... |
U-boat | ... on, Portugal. It was one of the last boats to cross the Atlantic before the | blockade began, and joined his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneer ... |
AMX-13 | ... he equipment of the Peruvian Army includes several types of tanks (T-55 and | ), armoured personnel carriers (M-113, UR-416), artillery (D30, M101, M109 ... |
Leopard 2 | The | tank carries a snorkel that is in fact a series of rings which can be stac ... |
HMS Dreadnought (1906) | ... lead to the dreadnought class of all-big-gun battleship, starting with the | |
M29 Weasel | The | (Studebaker Weasel), whilst originally designed as a snow vehicle, operate ... |
Heinkel He 111 | ... 4 to January 1945, the Luftwaffe launched approximately 1,176 from modified | H-22s of the Luftwaffes Kampfgeschwader 3 (3rd Bomber Wing, the so-called ... |
Tiger II | ... gh the nearby woods and abandoning their heavy equipment, including several | tanks |
large destroyer | ... panish Civil War (1936–39). Two coastal battleships, one heavy cruiser, one | and half a dozen submarines and auxiliary vessels were lost in the course ... |
USS George Bancroft (SBN-643) | ... everal ships USS Bancroft, as well as the fleet ballistic missile submarine | , after Bancroft, and the mid-19th century United States Coast Survey scho ... |
M113 | ... major operations with American troops. ARVN troops pioneered the use of the | armored personnel carrier as an infantry fighting vehicle by fighting moun ... |
M41 Walker Bulldog | ... e; a single tank filling all combat roles. The U.S. Army still retained the | light tank in the Army National Guard, but other than the units undergoing ... |
U-boat | German submarine U-553 was a Type VIIC | built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II |
USS Intrepid | ... aircraft, assigned to A-1 Skyraider squadrons aboard the aircraft carriers | and USS Enterprise in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. McCain began a ... |
AFV | ... jets. As long as the opposite bank has a shallow enough slope for the APC, | or IFV to climb out within a few miles, they can cross rivers and water ob ... |
catapults | ... as the current design improves the air flow around the carrier. Four steam | are used to launch fixed-wing aircraft, and four arrestor wires are used f ... |
Upholder class | In 1998, Canada purchased four | submarines and a suite of trainers from the Royal Navy to replace their de ... |
PT-76 | ... 8 jets. In addition to that the nation possessed great many T-55, T-62, and | battle tanks along with huge amounts of AK-47 assault rifles ordered. Armo ... |
M103 | ... nd light tank classifications. In 1960, with the deactivation of its last ( | ) heavy tank battalion, and the fielding of the new M60 series tank, the U ... |
U-boat | German submarine U-691 was a Type VIIC/41 | of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Her construction by Howald ... |
SMS Emden | During the First World War, in the Battle of Penang, the German cruiser | surreptitiously sailed to Penang and sank two Allied warships off its coas ... |
HMS Hereward | ... of Belgium had done during World War I. She fled The Hague, and she boarded | , a British destroyer which was to take her south; however, after she was ... |
USS Constitution | ... in August, the model of the USS Somers experiment was resurrected when the | , now 60 years old, was pulled out of ordinary and refurbished as a school ... |
Russian cruiser Zhemchug | ... titiously sailed to Penang and sank two Allied warships off its coast – the | in the North Channel, and as it was leaving the island, the French torpedo ... |
Knox class | After the development of the Baleares class frigates based on the US Navy's | , the Spanish Navy embraced the American naval doctrine |
USS Seawolf (SSN-575) | ... nuclear reactor was constructed by General Electric as a prototype for the | submarine. It was a liquid metal cooled reactor using pure sodium to cool ... |
HMS Edinburgh | ... ter warfare officer in 702 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Portland, as well as on | as an Officer of the Watch and Assistant Navigating Officer until 1989, in ... |
USS Constitution | ... d the United States, Bainbridge was appointed to command the 44-gun frigate | , in succession to Captain Isaac Hull. The Constitution was a very fine sh ... |
Blücher | The World War II German heavy cruiser | was completed in September 1939, and pronounced ready for service on 5 Apr ... |
USS Enterprise | ... ed to A-1 Skyraider squadrons aboard the aircraft carriers USS Intrepid and | in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. McCain began as a sub-par flier w ... |
Mitsubishi G4M | ... 5", was one of several pilots launched to intercept the incoming 9 Japanese | "Betty" bombers from 2. Chutai of 4. Kokutai, at this time five had alread ... |
U-boat | Silent Hunter II gives the player the command of a | during the Second Battle of the Atlantic. The game offers single-player an ... |
Destructor | ... hreat. In mid-1880s there were developed torpedo gunboats, like the Spanish | , but they were considered too slow to catch torpedo boats because of the ... |
K2 Black Panther | The future replacement for the K1 MBT has been baptized the | (Korean: 흑표), which will be fitted with a water-cooled Diesel engine, 120 ... |
Spica-class torpedo boat | ... ner-class destroyers were in fact of a torpedo boat size, while the Italian | were closer in size to a destroyer escort. After World War II they were ev ... |
Brave class fast patrol boat | ... h Navy had 6 Søløven class torpedo boats (the export version of the British | ) in service from 1965 to 1990) which had 3 Bristol Proteus (later RR Prot ... |
Blenheim | ... es (the Spitfire and Hurricane fighters and the Whitley, Wellington and the | bombers). As a result development of the Typhoon was slowed, production pl ... |
Halifaxes | ... se Nazi air defences. Three hundred and sixty heavy bombers (Lancasters and | ) bombed a synthetic oil plant in Böhlen, from Dresden, while de Havilland ... |
HMS Campbeltown | The Duke of York served as flight commander and pilot of the Lynx HAS3 on | from 1989 to 1991, during which he also acted as Force Aviation Officer to ... |
schnorkel | ... ars before IXD/42s were actually developed) and fitted with an experimental | |
T-34 | ... hina has also cut down military support, forcing them to using the obsolete | tanks and tank destroyers into battle |
Clemson-class | USS Thompson (DD-305), a | destroyer of the U.S. Navy named in honor of Secretary of the Navy Richard ... |
Canadian Iroquois class | The next series of major naval vessels were the four | helicopter carrying destroyers first commissioned in 1972. They used 2 ft- ... |
R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine | USS R-19 (SS-96) was an | of the United States Navy |
Barroso-class | ... the visit of Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the sale of a | corvette to be constructed in Brazil was announced |
Lancasters | ... night to confuse Nazi air defences. Three hundred and sixty heavy bombers ( | and Halifaxes) bombed a synthetic oil plant in Böhlen, from Dresden, while ... |
Sea Control Ship | ... r Principe de Asturias, which in turn was based on the United States Navy's | concept. Some defence industry websites refer to the ship as an "Offshore ... |
DD-1 | ... ed USS Bainbridge in his honor, including the U.S. Navy's first destroyer ( | ), a unique nuclear-powered destroyer/cruiser (CGN-25), and a contemporary ... |
BMP-1 | ... ulldog light tanks, 24 American M113A1 armored personnel carriers, 15 Czech | infantry fighting vehicles and 90 OT-64 SKOT APCs, 64 German Condor APCs, ... |
USS Grayback | ... vored cruise missile systems in a strategic role as deployed on the earlier | , but a major drawback of these early cruise missile launch systems (and t ... |
Type 212 submarine | Some modern submarines, such as the | s of the German Navy, are equipped with surface-to-air missile systems, si ... |
HMS Hereward | ... very closely linked. Nevertheless, in 1940, King George VI sent the warship | , to rescue Wilhelmina, her family and her Government and bring them to sa ... |
Ju 88 | ... e design philosophies that had resulted from the main change in the earlier | 's main landing gear design, where each main gear had a single gear strut ... |
T-62 | Historian Gamal Hammad asserts that 400 T-55 and | tanks supplied by the sealift were directed towards replacing Syrian losse ... |
T-72 | ... ding to avoid cuts in education and health. The deal includes orders for 92 | tanks and the Buk-M2, S-125 Neva/Pechora missile system and S-300 air-defe ... |
M2 Bradley | ... , the wire-guided BGM-71 TOW would give infantry fighting vehicles like the | the firepower to destroy armored targets along with the ability to carry t ... |
HMS Monmouth | She was sunk along with | by the German armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau under Admiral Gr ... |
Type 99 | ... s ageing Soviet-derived tank inventory with numerous variants of the modern | tank, and upgrading its battlefield C3I systems to enhance its network-cen ... |
Principe de Asturias | ... and Thailand's first and only aircraft carrier. Based on the Spanish Navy's | design and constructed by Spanish shipbuilder Bazán, Chakri Naruebet was o ... |
Junkers Ju 88 | On the night of December 2, 1943, German | bombers attacked the port of Bari, which was a key supply centre for Allie ... |
Lafayette-class submarine | ... ssell Warren Howe asserts that Liberty was accompanied by the Polaris armed | , which filmed the entire episode through its periscope but was unable to ... |
Murmansk | In the sea off of the village of Sørvær lies the stranded Soviet cruiser | , which ran aground on Christmas Eve in 1994 after her towlines snapped of ... |
S-80 class | ... class) with the Aegis combat system, F-80 class frigates, minesweepers, new | submarines, amphibious ships and various other ships, including oceanograp ... |
Carrier battle group | ... d be treated with respect by aircraft, however the reverse is equally true. | s are especially well defended, as not only do they typically consist of m ... |
HMS Java | On 29 December 1812 he fell in with the 38-gun | , a vessel of 1,083 tons, formerly the French frigate Renommée. She was on ... |
Admiral Graf Spee | ... it was a working vacation, and used the trip to research the defeat of the | . They came across the "hook" for their story when one of the surviving Br ... |
Markgraf | ... ree sister battleships of the König class, the SMS König, SMS Kronprinz and | , which together formed the main component of the 3rd Battleship Squadron, ... |
SMS Blücher | On 11 April 1908, the Panzerkreuzer | was launched from the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel. This ship was sunk on 24 ... |
USS Long Beach (CGN-9) | ... not equipped with a D2G reactor was the world's first nuclear cruiser, the | , which used a C1W reactor. All of the Navy's nuclear cruisers have been d ... |
Do 217 | ... g Pencil" because of its slim fuselage. The successor of the Do 215 was the | |
Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... he mid-60s, after several successful test launches carried out on board the | . Despite the successful launching tests, the US never provided the missil ... |
Turunmaa class | The Finnish Navy commissioned two | corvettes, Turunmaa and Karjala, in 1968. They were equipped with one Roll ... |
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress | ... erry also was the creator of the Ball Turret Gun that was mounted under the | and the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, as commemorated by the film Memphis B ... |
Landwasserschlepper | ... gned the hull for the Ford GPA 'Seep'. During the war, Germany produced the | and Schwimmwagen, and in the '50s, the Soviets developed the GAZ 46, BAV 4 ... |
U-boat | Silent Hunter II is a WWII | combat simulation from Ubisoft for Windows 95/98/ME. It was originally bei ... |
SMS Brummer | ... ss bulky fighting tops, the four light cruisers SMS Dresden, SMS Karlsruhe, | , and SMS Cöln lie on their sides with around 16–20 metres of water over t ... |
Baleares class frigate | After the development of the | s based on the US Navy's Knox class, the Spanish Navy embraced the America ... |
ROKS Cheonan (PCC-772) | ... or example the banner at the funeral for the sailors lost in the sinking of | |
M1A2 | ... earing laser detection system and reactive armor comparable to the American | and French Leclerc |
U-151 | ... ps for the U.S. Navy from 1907–1923. During the war, German submarines like | attacked ships outside the port. In 1926, Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin, rector of Wi ... |
U-boat | A German | , the U-156, surfaced three miles off Orleans, on July 21, 1918 and shelle ... |
USS Boston | ... United States Minister to Hawaii who ordered the landing of troops from the | . On the basis of Blount's report, Cleveland sent Albert Sydney Willis of ... |
Do 17 | The | fast bomber elicited renewed interest from foreign air forces (after the i ... |
PZL.37 Łoś | ... licensed by the PZL company in Poland. It was used on the PZL.23 Karaś and | bombers |
USS Ethan Allen | ... ds of the Americans. A decommissioned U.S. ballistic missile submarine, the | , is blown up underwater as a deception ploy. A depth gauge taken from the ... |
HMS Challenger | ... undation of oceanography. The expedition was named after the mother vessel, | |
EE-3 Jararaca | ... 0 OT-64 SKOT APCs, 64 German Condor APCs, 15 Brazilian EE-9 Cascavel and 18 | armored cars, and 48 Russian lightly armored GAZ-3937 amphibious vehicles. ... |
Consolidated B-24 Liberator | ... l Turret Gun that was mounted under the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the | , as commemorated by the film Memphis Belle and the poem The Death of the ... |
Ohio-class | ... former student of Ramius, has been trailing what he at first believes is an | submarine. He and his political officer come to realize that it is the Red ... |
HMS Brazen | ... im as her personal aide-de-Camp. Prince Andrew then went on to serve aboard | as a flight pilot until 1986, including deployment to the Mediterranean Se ... |
M48A3 | ... nk rocket fire, but they would not be as capable of "jungle busting" as the | medium tanks |
M41 Walker Bulldog | In the immediate post-World War II era the US Army introduced the | into service to fill the role of a light tank. The lifespan of the M41 was ... |
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) | ... the meantime, the S1W and S2W pressurized water reactors, conceived for the | , had demonstrated their superior reliability. The S1G reactor facility an ... |
CGN-25 | ... Navy's first destroyer (DD-1), a unique nuclear-powered destroyer/cruiser ( | ), and a contemporary Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG 96). Bainbridge I ... |
Bismarck | ... served as the escort to HMS Ark Royal during the sinking of the battleship | , and on 31 December 1942, Sheffield and Jamaica jointly attacked and drov ... |
Alfa-class | Meanwhile Captain Viktor Tupolev, a Soviet | attack submarine commander and former student of Ramius, has been trailing ... |
USS Moberly (PF-63) | The World War II era US Navy frigate | was named for the town. The ship participated mostly in convoy escort, ear ... |