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Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Bristol Bullfinch was an experimental British military aircraft first flown in 1922. Variants were built as both parasol wing monoplanes and biplanes, but both versions proved unsuccessful, and only the three prototypes were built. Development The Bullfinch was designed by Frank Barnwell, chief designer of the Bri... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | K-8 was a of the Soviet Northern Fleet that sank in the Bay of Biscay with her nuclear weapons on board on April 12, 1970. A fire on April 8 had disabled the submarine and it was being towed in rough seas. Fifty-two crewmen were killed attempting the salvage of the boat when it sank. Accidents 1960 loss of coolant O... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991, , was chartered to amend the Arms Export Control Act enacting the transfer of Soviet military armaments and ordnances to NATO marking the conclusion of the Cold War. The Act sanctions the Soviet nuclear arsenal displacement shall be in conjunction with the implementation of ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Information Control Division (ICD) was a department of the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) during the early part of the post-war American occupation of Germany following World War II focused on controlling and altering German media to promote democratic values and to move Germany away from Nazi... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Garcia (FF-1040) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escort ships, later reclassified as frigates, in the United States Navy. She was named for U.S. Marine Private First Class Fernando Luis Garcia, the first Puerto Rican Medal of Honor Recipient. Laid down on 16 October 1962 by Bethlehem Steel of San Franc... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Milanese War of Succession was a war of succession over the Duchy of Milan from the death of duke Filippo Maria Visconti on 13 August 1447 to the Treaty of Lodi on 9 April 1454. Summary Many pretenders claimed to be the rightful successor to Filippo Maria Visconti, who died without a male heir. These included th... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile is an armed conflict in the Sudanese southern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile between the Sudanese Army (SAF) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), a northern affiliate of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in South Sudan. After so... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Vickers Type 121 Wibault Scout was a British fighter built by Vickers in the 1920s. It was a licensed version of the French Wibault 7 aircraft, with 26 being sold to Chile in 1926, where they served until 1934. Design and development Vickers set up a partnership with the French aircraft manufacturer, Société des A... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Shadow Company is a documentary directed by Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque and narrated by Gerard Butler. It is an introduction to the mercenary and private military company industry, concentrating on the role the industry has been playing in recent conflicts. It was released on DVD in August 2006. Content The docum... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Turquoise was one of six s built for the French Navy () in the first decade of the 20th century. Design and description The Émeraude class were built as part of the French Navy's 1903 building program to a Maugas single-hull design. The submarines displaced surfaced and submerged. They had an overall length of , a b... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Parks (DE-165) was a in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. She was sold for scrapping in 1973. History She was laid down on 11 November 1942 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newark, New Jersey; launched on 18 April 1943; sponsored by Miss Patricia Yoder; and commissioned on 23 Jun... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The First Mohmand campaign was a British military campaign against the Mohmands from 1897 to 1898. Background The Mohmands are a Pashtun tribe who inhabit the hilly country to the north-west of Peshawar, in the North-West Frontier Province of what the British considered part of the British Empire, now Pakistan. Britis... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS K-8 (SS-39) was a K-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down by the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California, under subcontract from Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 11 July 1914 sponsored by Mrs. John W. Lewis, wife of the first commanding officer, a... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Type 31 frigate or Inspiration class, and formerly known as the Type 31e frigate or General Purpose Frigate (GPF), is a planned class of frigate intended to enter service with the United Kingdom's Royal Navy in the 2020s alongside the submarine-hunting Type 26 frigate. Designed by Babcock International, it is also ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Mills (DE-383) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. Post-war, she performed additional duties for the Navy, incl... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The AG-16 was an AG-class submarine, designed by the American Holland Torpedo Boat Company/Electric Boat Company, built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. The submarine was fabricated in Canada, shipped to Russia and reassembled for service with the Baltic Fleet. The boat was originally named AG-13, but... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Battle of Lemnos in 1024 was the culmination of a raid by Kievan Rus' troops through the Dardanelles and into the Aegean Sea. It was the penultimate conflict between the Byzantine Empire and the Rus'. The only source for the conflict is the history of John Skylitzes. According to Skylitzes, in 1024 a Rus' leader n... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13), was the seventh in service with the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), one of America's most distinguished naval historians, who wrote more than 40 books on naval history. Samuel Eliot Morison was the first ship of that name in the U... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy. Any assets that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, which usually includes obvious weapons, transport vehicles, communication sites, and industrial resources. However, anything useful to the advancing... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Battle of Akroinon was fought at Akroinon or Akroinos (near modern Afyon) in Phrygia, on the western edge of the Anatolian plateau, in 740 between an Umayyad Arab army and the Byzantine forces. The Arabs had been conducting regular raids into Anatolia for the past century, and the 740 expedition was the largest in ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Supermarine Type 324 and Type 325 were British two-engined fighter designs proposed as the replacement for the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane. Neither of them nor a revised design - the Type 327 - to carry cannon was accepted for development and production. Development As an aircraft to succeed the Hurr... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | {| {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship type = Patrol and anti-submarine warfare corvette | Ship tonnage = | Ship displacement = 2,400 tonnes | Ship tons burthen = | Ship length = | Ship beam = | Ship height = | Ship draught = | Ship draft = | Ship depth = | Ship hold dept... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The BM-40A reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used to power four of the seven boats of the Soviet Navy's Project 705 Лира (Lira or Alfa in NATO designation) fourth generation submarines. It is a liquid metal cooled reactor (LMR), using highly enriched uranium-235 fuel to produce 155 MWt of power. It was developed ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | INS Shankul (S44) is a diesel-electric submarine of the Indian Navy. The submarine was the second to be built in India. References Shishumar-class submarines Attack submarines Ships built in India 1992 ships Submarines of India |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Basmachi movement (, Basmachestvo, derived from Uzbek: "Basmachi" meaning "bandits") was an uprising against Russian Imperial and Soviet rule by the Muslim peoples of Central Asia. The movement's roots lay in the anti-conscription violence of 1916 that erupted when the Russian Empire began to draft Muslims for arm... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMS Bridgewater was a sixth-rate 20-gun ship of the Royal Navy, built in 1740 and wrecked in 1743. She was commissioned in August 1740 under Captain Robert Pett for service in the North Sea and English Channel. In December 1741 Bridgewater was assigned to coastal duties off Newfoundland under Captain Frederick Rogers.... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMS Tamworth Castle was a that was ordered for the British Royal Navy during the Second World War. Before completion, the ship was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed HMCS Kincardine, which used the corvette as a convoy escort for the rest of the war. Following the war, the ship was sold for mercantile ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HDMS Olfert Fischer (F355) was a of the Kongelige Danske Marine (Royal Danish Navy, KDM). The vessel was laid down in December 1978 and commissioned in October 1981. The corvette operated in the Persian Gulf on two occasions, first in 1990 and 1991 as part of the multinational fleet enforcing the United Nations sancti... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | This is a list of weapons used in the American Indian Wars. Offensive weapons Edged weapons Claymore Cutlass Dirk Gunstock war club Improvised knife Inuit axe Jawbone war club Khanjali Lance Pernach Shashka Snow knife Spear Stone war club Toggling harpoon Tomahawk Ulu War hatchet Wooden war club (s... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMS Norfolk was a British Type 23 frigate, the sixth in the Royal Navy to use this name, laid down in 1985 by Yarrow Shipbuilders. She was launched on the Clyde by Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in July 1987 and named for the Dukedom of Norfolk. She was commissioned on 1 June 1990. Norfolk was the 'first of cla... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Message from Turnberry (also known as message of Turnberry or the Turnberry message) was a message of 8 June 1990 sent by the North Atlantic Council meeting on June 7–8 near the ruins of the Turnberry Castle, Scotland, addressed to "to the Soviet Union and to all other European countries"; effectively meaning the W... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Koiner (DE-331) was an built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. Post-war, she was loaned to the U.S. Coast Guard, and also reclassified as a radar picke... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | In military usage, a barrage is massed sustained artillery fire (shelling) aimed at a series of points along a line. In addition to attacking any enemy in the kill zone, a barrage intends to suppress enemy movements and deny access across that line of barrage. The impact points along the line may be 20–30 yards/meters ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | On 25 March 1799, French and Habsburg armies fought for control of the geographically strategic Hegau in present-day Baden-Württemberg. The battle has been called by various names: First Battle of Stockach, the Battle by Stockach, and, in French chronicles, the Battle of Liptingen (or Leibtengen). In the broader milit... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMS Lord Melville (also known as HMS Melville) was a brig of the Royal Navy launched at Kingston, Ontario, on 20 July 1813. Initially designed as a schooner, she was altered to 14-gun brig in 1813. She served on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812, and was renamed HMS Star on 22 January 1814. By 1815, she was unfit for... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | See also Military of Mali 2012 Malian coup d'état Tuareg revolts: Tuareg rebellion (1962–1964) Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995) Tuareg rebellion (2007–2009) Mali Military history of Mali |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Seadragon (SS-194), a Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seadragon. Her keel was laid on 18 April 1938 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was christened and launched on 21 April 1939, sponsored by Mrs. May F. Richardson, wife of Admiral Jam... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMAS Melbourne (FFG 05) was an Adelaide-class guided-missile frigate of the Royal Australian Navy, which entered service in 1992. Melbourne has been deployed to the Persian Gulf on several occasions, and served as part of the INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce in 2000. On 26 October 2019, Melbourne was decommissioned from... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMAS Arunta (FFH 151) is an Anzac-class frigate of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The ship, named for the Arrernte people, was laid down in 1995 and commissioned in 1998. Since entering service, Arunta has performed a wide range of duties, including border protection patrols in northern Australian waters, and several... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMAS Mildura (J207/M207), named for the city of Mildura, Victoria, was one of 60 s constructed during World War II, and one of 36 initially manned and commissioned by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The ship was laid down by Morts Dock & Engineering Co in 1940 and commissioned into the RAN in 1941. Milduras initial d... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Flying Fish (SS/AGSS-229), a Gato-class submarine, was the first submarine and second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flying fish. The keel of Flying Fish (SS-229) was laid down on 6 December 1940 by Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine. She was launched 9 July 1941 and sponsored by Mrs. Do... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Cataluña (F73) is the third ship of five Spanish-built s, based on the American design, of the Spanish Navy. Laid down on August 1970 and launched on 3 November 1971, Cataluña was commissioned into service on 16 January 1975. All of these Spanish frigates were built to the size of the Knox frigates. Other units of ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Baussenque Wars (from French Guerres Baussenques, meaning "wars of Baux") were a series of armed conflicts (1144–1162) between the House of Barcelona, then ruling in Provence, and the House of Baux. They are held up in Provence as the idealistic resistance by one of her native families against Catalan "occupation."... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS R-11 (SS-88) was an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, on March 18, 1918. She was launched on March 21, 1919, sponsored by Miss Dorothy Batchelder, and commissioned on September 5, 1919, ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMS Boadicea was a frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the Channel and in the East Indies during which service she captured many prizes. She participated in one action for which the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal. She was broken up in 1858. Design Boadicea was one of a batch of large frigates o... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Bristol Boarhound was a British army cooperation and liaison aircraft of the 1920s. It was a two-seat biplane with wings of equal span, of steel frame construction with fabric covering. Design and development The Boarhound was built as a private venture to Air Ministry Specification 8/24 (later superseded by Speci... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | United Nations Security Council Resolution 97, adopted on January 30, 1952, dissolved the Commission for Conventional Armaments. No details of the vote were given. See also List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1 to 100 (1946–1953) References Text of the Resolution at undocs.org External links 009... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | ROCS Wu Chang (PFG-1207) is a Kang Ding-class frigate of the Republic of China Navy. Development and design As the ROC (Taiwan)'s defensive stance is aimed towards the Taiwan Strait, the ROC Navy is constantly seeking to upgrade its anti-submarine warfare capabilities. The US$1.75 billion agreement with France in the... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Bosporan–Heracleote War was a long and enduring conflict between the Hellenistic states of Heraclea Pontica and the Bosporan Kingdom. It lasted decades, but ended after the Bosporans finally conquered the city-state of Theodosia in around 360 BCE. Background The Spartocids had early conquered the city-state of Kim... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | A roving commission details the duties of a commissioned officer or other official whose responsibilities are neither geographically nor functionally limited. Where an individual in an official position is given more freedom than would regularly be afforded to a person in the same role, they are described as having a ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | U-161 may refer to one of the following German submarines: , a Type U 93 submarine launched in 1918; served in World War I until surrendered on 20 November 1918; grounded on English east coast on way to be broken up, 1921 , a Type IXC submarine that served in World War II until sunk on 27 September 1943 Submarines ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Drummond class are three corvettes designed and built in France based on the A69 s. The ships were commissioned in the Argentine Navy between 1978 and 1982. The ships, when operational, serve in the "Atlantic Area of Operations" of the Argentine Navy, based on Mar del Plata Naval Base, province of Buenos Aires. Th... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Dagestan uprising of 1920-1921 was an event during the Russian Civil War. By the spring of 1920, Bolshevik forces controlled most of the Caucasus except Georgia. The uprising, led by the Naqshbandi brotherhood that had earlier supported Imam Shamil, began in September 1920, and by the end of the year the rebels co... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Belet (APD-109) was a Crosley-class high-speed transport in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. In 1963, she was transferred to Mexico, where she served as ARM California (H03/B-3). She was wrecked in 1972. Namesake Robert Alfred Belet was born on 6 August 1914 at Blairstown, New Jersey. He firs... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Congo Crisis () was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The crisis began almost immediately after the Congo became independent from Belgium and ended, unofficially, with the entire country under the rule of Jose... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | KD Tun Abdul Razak is a Scorpène-class submarine of Royal Malaysian Navy. Development and design In 2002, Malaysia ordered two Scorpène-class boats worth €1.04 billion (about RM4.78 billion). Both boats Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Abdul Razak commissioned by Royal Malaysian Navy in 2009. The Scorpène class of submari... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Yanmaodao () is a type of dao used as a standard military weapon during the Ming Dynasty and middle Qing Dynasty (1368–1800). The blade is straight until the curve begins around the center of percussion along the last 1/4 or so of the blade approaching the tip. The center of percussion is the point on the blade wit... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Air-to-ground weaponry is aircraft ordnance used by combat aircraft to attack ground targets. The weapons include bombs, machine guns, autocannons, air-to-surface missiles, rockets, air-launched cruise missiles and grenade launchers. See also Aircraft ordnance Attack aircraft Gunship Close air support Aircraft we... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HNLMS Walrus (S802) is a of the Royal Netherlands Navy. After a long delay following a serious fire during construction, the submarine entered service in 1992. Walrus has been deployed both for naval exercises and in combat operations around the world. The submarine is currently in active service. Ship history Walrus... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | RSS Victory (88) is the lead ship of the Victory-class corvettes of the Republic of Singapore Navy. Construction and career Victory was launched on 8 June 1988 by Lürssen Werft, Germany and was commissioned on 18 August 1990. CARAT 2009 On 15 June 2009, RSS Intrepid, RSS Conqueror, RSS Vigour, RSS Victory, RSS Stalw... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | U-152 may refer to one of the following German submarines: , a Type U 151 submarine launched in 1917 and that served in World War I until surrendered on 24 November 1918; scuttled off the Isle of Wight on 30 June 1921 During the First World War, Germany also had this submarine with a similar name: , a Type UB III s... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMS Dacres (K472) was a , built in the United States as a , and transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, which served in World War II. The ship was laid down as Duffy (DE-268) on 7 April 1943 by the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, and launched on 19 May 1943. Transferred to the Royal Navy ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Stafford (DE-411) was a in the United States Navy. She was named after Richard Y. Stafford (1916–1942), a United States Marine Corps Captain who died during the Battle of Guadalcanal. Staffords keel was laid down on 29 November 1943 at Houston, Texas, by Brown Shipbuilding. The ship was launched on 11 January 194... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The phrase "little green men" (; ) refers to masked soldiers of the Russian Federation in unmarked green army uniforms and carrying modern Russian military weapons and equipment who appeared during the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014. The term first arose during the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, a period... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Canadian Vickers Velos was a 1927 Canadian twin-engined float-equipped sesquiplane designed and built by Canadian Vickers Limited. Designed for survey work, it proved difficult to fly and only one was built. Operator Royal Canadian Air Force Specification See also References Floatplanes 1920s Canadian patrol ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The British Aerospace Harrier II is a second-generation vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) jet aircraft used previously by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and, between 2006 and 2010, the Royal Navy (RN). The aircraft was the latest development of the Harrier Jump Jet family, and was derived from the McDonnell Dougla... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Vickers Wellesley was a medium bomber that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs at Brooklands near Weybridge, Surrey. It was one of two aircraft to be named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, the other being the Vickers Wellington. The Wellesley was develop... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Swearer (DE-186) was a in the United States Navy during World War II. She was later transferred to the French Navy as Bambara. Swearer was laid down by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newark, New Jersey on 12 August 1943, launched on 31 October 1943, and commissioned on 23 November 1943. Swearer w... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Albert David (FF-1050) was a destroyer escort, later reclassified as a frigate, in the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant Albert David, a Medal of Honor recipient. His was the only Medal of Honor awarded to a member of the Navy in the Atlantic Theater of Operations in World War II. Laid down on 28 Ap... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Bostwick (DE-103) was a Cannon class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. In 1948, she was sold to Taiwan where she served as Taicang (DE-25). She was scrapped in 1973. History Bostwick was laid down on 6 February 1943 at Wilmington, Delaware, by the Dravo Corp.; launched on 3... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMS K1 was a First World War steam turbine-propelled K-class submarine of the Royal Navy. K1 was sunk to prevent it being captured after colliding with off the Danish coast. She had been patrolling on the surface as part of a flotilla of submarines operating in line ahead. The flotilla was led by the light cruiser , f... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | A trench newspaper or front newspaper is a type of periodical that came into being during the First World War. Trench newspapers were produced for soldiers stationed at the Western Front, which had become bogged down in a trench war. They differ from the official military newspapers in that they were produced within th... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | This page is a list of flamethrowers of all forms from all around the world. Human portable Vehicle mounted Static See also List of pistols List of revolvers List of assault rifles List of sniper rifles List of machine guns List of firearms List of weapons References Flamethrowers |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The BRP Quezon (PS-70) was one of two Rizal class ships in service with the Philippine Navy. She was formerly a USN Auk class minesweeper produced during World War II, and was later on classified as a patrol corvette protecting the vast waters of the Philippines. Along with other ex-World War II veteran ships of the P... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Information Operations Roadmap is a document commissioned by the Pentagon in 2003 and declassified in January 2006. The document was personally approved by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and describes the United States Military's approach to Information warfare, with an emphasis on the Internet. The ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Favorite was the 44-gun frigate Favorita of the Navy of the Kingdom of Italy. The Italians exchanged her to the French Navy for the three brigs , and . On 12 March 1811, Favorite, under Bernard Dubourdieu, led a frigate squadron to raid the British commerce raider base of the island of Lissa. The squadron encountere... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Indianapolis (LCS-17) is a littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the fourth vessel in the navy named after Indianapolis, Indiana. Design In 2002, the U.S. Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships. The Navy initially ordered two monohull ships from Lockhe... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Lynx (or Linx) was a 16-gun brig of the French Navy, name ship of her two-vessel class of brigs, and launched at Bayonne on 17 April 1804. The British captured her in 1807 and named her HMS Heureux. After service in the Caribbean that earned her crew two medals, including one for a boat action in which her captain was ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Kalvari-class submarines were the first submarines inducted into the Indian Navy. They were variants of the early Soviet s. Four of the class served in the Indian Navy. Four additional variants of the later Foxtrot class were inducted as the . has been preserved as a museum on Ramakrishna Mission Beach in Visakhapatn... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The French frigate Alcmène was an of a nominal 44 guns, launched in 1811. The British captured her on 1814. The Royal Navy named her HMS Dunira, and then renamed her HMS Immortalite but never commissioned her nor fitted her for sea. In March 1822 she became a receiving ship at Portsmouth. She was sold in January 1837.... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | A towed array sonar is a system of hydrophones towed behind a submarine or a surface ship on a cable. Trailing the hydrophones behind the vessel, on a cable that can be kilometers long, keeps the array's sensors away from the ship's own noise sources, greatly improving its signal-to-noise ratio, and hence the effective... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | K II was a unique patrol submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ship was built by Fijenoord shipyard in Rotterdam. The boat had a diving dept of . Service history The submarine was laid down in Rotterdam at the shipyard of Fijenoord on November 20, 1915. The launch took place on February 27, 1919. On March 28, ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The of 1918–1922 was the dispatch of Japanese military forces to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part of a larger effort by western powers and Japan to support White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army during the Russian Civil War. The Japanese suffered 1,399 killed and another 1,717 deaths from disease.Sp... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The submarine hunts or submarine incidents were a series of several incidents involving foreign submarines that occurred in Swedish territorial waters during the Cold War, attributed in Swedish media to the Soviet Union. On October 27, 1981, the Soviet submarine U 137 became stranded deep inside Swedish waters. The Sw... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Requin (SS/SSR/AGSS/IXSS-481) , a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after the requin, French for shark. Since 1990 it has been a museum ship at The Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her keel was laid down on 24 August 1944 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMAS Gladstone (J324/M324), named for the city of Gladstone, Queensland, was one of 60 Bathurst class corvettes constructed during World War II, and one of 36 that were initially manned and commissioned solely by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built by Walkers Limited, the ship was commissioned in 1943. Gladstone in... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Ammunition (informally ammo) is the material fired, scattered, dropped or detonated from any weapon or weapon system. Ammunition is both expendable weapons (e.g., bombs, missiles, grenades, land mines) and the component parts of other weapons that create the effect on a target (e.g., bullets and warheads). Nearly all m... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The 1957 Aqaba Valetta accident happened on 17 April 1957 when a twin-engined Vickers Valetta C.1 transport aircraft, serial number VW832, of 84 Squadron, Royal Air Force crashed and was destroyed after departing from Aqaba Airport in Jordan following wing failure due to turbulence. The crash is the deadliest air disas... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a stealthy threat actor, typically a nation state or state-sponsored group, which gains unauthorized access to a computer network and remains undetected for an extended period. In recent times, the term may also refer to non-state-sponsored groups conducting large-scale targeted i... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | USS Racine (PF-100), a , was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Racine, Wisconsin. Construction The first Racine (PF-100) was laid down by the American Ship Building Company, in Cleveland, Ohio, 14 September 1943; launched on 15 March 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Francis H. Wendt; and commissioned on ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Paolo Thaon di Revel (P430) is the lead ship of Paolo Thaon di Revel-class offshore patrol vessel. Development and design Italian Navy ordered the new MBDA TESEO MK/2E heavy-duty missile (TESEO "EVO"), a long-range anti-ship missile with also strategic land attack capability. The missile will have a new terminal "hea... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Vickers F.B.26 Vampire was a British single-seat pusher biplane fighter built by Vickers during the First World War. Four were built by Vickers at Bexleyheath, one of these was subsequently modified to become the F.B.26A. Design and development The design was a development of the earlier Vickers F.B.12 prototypes... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Russo-Swedish War of 1656–1658 was fought by Russia and Sweden as a theater of the Second Northern War. It took place during a pause in the contemporary Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) as a consequence of the Truce of Vilna. Despite initial successes, Tsar Alexis of Russia failed to secure his principal objective—to r... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMS Caroline was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was designed by Sir John Henslow and launched in 1795 at Rotherhithe by John Randall. Caroline was a lengthened copy of with improved speed but more instability. The frigate was commissioned in July 1795 under Captain William Luke to serve in the Nor... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | A referendum on foreign mediation in Kosovo was held in the Republic of Serbia on 23 April 1998. Voters were asked "Do you approve the participation of foreign representatives in solving the problems in Kosovo and Metohija?" The proposal was rejected by 96.53% of voters. The referendum was boycotted by Kosovan Albanian... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | The Malta Summit was a meeting between US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, taking place on December 2–3, 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was their second meeting following a meeting that included Ronald Reagan, in New York in December 1988. During ... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | HMAS Castlemaine (J244/M244/A248), named for the city of Castlemaine, Victoria, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II, and one of 36 initially crewed and commissioned solely by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Launched in 1941 and commissioned in 1942, Castlemaine operated during World... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | In 1794, three 64-gun third-rate ships were cut down to 44-gun fifth-rate frigates with a primary armament of 24-pounder guns, in a process known as razeeing. This was in response to rumours then circulating of very large French frigates supposed to be under construction. By Admiralty Order of 11 August 1794, two 64-gu... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Submarine warfare is one of the four divisions of underwater warfare, the others being anti-submarine warfare, mine warfare and mine countermeasures. Submarine warfare consists primarily of diesel and nuclear submarines using torpedoes, missiles or nuclear weapons, as well as advanced sensing equipment, to attack othe... |
Yes, this text is highly related with defense or military topics | Siroco (S-72) was an built for the Spanish Navy by Bazán at Cartagena, Spain. The submarine was launched on December 12, 1982, commissioned on December 7, 1983. Because of the economic crisis, the government didn't authorize the reparations of the submarine and was decommissioned on June 29, 2012. History Siroco was ... |
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