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Parent topics
- Combat search and rescue [r]: Add brief definition or description}
- Search and rescue [r]: The location of those in distress from natural, accidental, or hostile causes; on-scene medical stabilization and extrication; evacuation to treatment or other safe facilities [e]
Subtopics
- Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. [e]
- Mine (naval warfare) [r]: A naval explosive weapon that waits passively for a target to come into its range, and then detonates or releases a mobile weapon once its sensors detect an appropriate target [e]
- Torpedo [r]: A naval weapon that travels underwater, using its own propulsion, to attack its target, minimally with onboard mechanisms to keep it on a straight course. Modern torpedoes are underwater guided missiles that can track their target and adjust their course to hit it [e]
Incidents
- USS Franklin (CV-13) [r]: Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, in service 1944, suffered greatest combat damage of any surviving carrier March 1945, returned to port; reclassified but never modernized and did not return to first-line service; struck from Navy List in 1964 [e]
- USS Oriskany (CV-34) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- USS Forrestal (CV-59) [r]: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, lead ship of Forrestal-class, in service 1955-1993 [e]
- USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- USS Nimitz (CVN-68) [r]: Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, lead ship of the Nimitz-class, the main operational class of large carriers; Carrier Air Wing Eleven embarked; ship is center of Carrier Strike Group Eleven but is in overhaul for 2011 [e]
- USS Princeton (CG-59) [r]: A Baseline 3 (of 4) Ticonderoga-class cruiser of the United States Navy, which survived a mine explosion during the Gulf War that would have sunk larger WWII ships; test ship for the Block IV BGM-109 Tomahawk missile [e]
- USS Tripoli (LPH-10) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-shipping missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Electronic warfare [r]: A subset of information operations that deals with the use of electromagnetic or kinetic means to degrade an enemy's military electronics systems, to be able to operate one's own electronics in the face of enemy attacks, and to evade those attacks through protection or deception [e]
- Explosives [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Firefighting [r]: The act of extinguishing dangerous fires. [e]
- Insensitive high explosives [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Precision-guided munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Radar [r]: Acronym for "radio detection and ranging"; a system used to locate a distant object by transmission of radio waves and reception of their reflection. [e]
- Radio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Safety of Life at Sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Satellite orbits [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Search and rescue transponder [r]: Add brief definition or description