Navy/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Military strategy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ship [r]: Vessel larger than a boat for transporting people, goods, or defence by sea, and capable of crossing open waters. ^[e]
• Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. ^[e]
• Freedom of navigation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Power projection [r]: The capability to deploy military forces, even if limited to air and special operations, on short notice over intercontinental ranges ^[e]
• Sea control [r]: "The employment of naval forces, supported by land and air forces as appropriate, in order to achieve military objectives in vital sea areas. Such operations include destruction of enemy naval forces, suppression of enemy sea commerce, protection of vital sea lanes, and establishment of local military superiority in areas of naval operations." (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff) ^[e]

Subtopics

Missions

• Amphibious warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anti-air warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anti-submarine warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ballistic missile defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Close air support [r]: Weapons delivered, by aircraft, in close proximity to friendly forces that are in contact with enemy forces; direct support of ground combat requiring extreme care to avoid fratricide ^[e]
• Combat search and rescue [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Land attack [r]: A range of technologies and techniques used to attack targets on land from the sea; the targets are usually assumed to be well inland, and the weapons to be non-nuclear ^[e]
• Mine warfare [r]: An area of military technology and doctrine, which deals with the development, use of, defense against, and removal of land mines, improvised explosive devices, and sea mines. These devices are characterized by being distributed prior to the presence of an adversary; the mines trigger either by sensing the enemy, or by command from friendly forces. ^[e]
• Naval gunfire support [r]: naval gun, unguided rocket, and guided missile fire from ships, in direct support of ground forces; does not include close air support even if the aircraft fly from ships ^[e]

Types of naval vessel (modern)

"Modern" is assumed to be from the beginning of the 20th century; some types, such as battleships, are no longer part of current navies and unlikely to return

Combatant

• Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft and aircraft that support military operations ^[e]
• Battleship [r]: A heavily-armored, warship optimized for fighting other warships using large-caliber guns; certain armor requirements differentiated from cruisers; obsolete by end of World War II. ^[e]
• Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense ^[e]
• Destroyer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fast attack craft [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ocean escort [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Littoral Combat Ship [r]: Add brief definition or description

Amphibious warfare

Some types listed may overlap; a given vessel type might have both a helicopter flight deck and a (dock) well deck

• Amphibious Assault Ship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Landing Platform Helicopter [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Landing Platform Dock [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Landing Ship Dock [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Landing craft [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Prepositioning ship [r]: Add brief definition or description

Support

• Command ship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intelligence collection ship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Oceanographic ship (naval) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Oiler [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Replenishment ship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tender [r]: Add brief definition or description

Types of naval vessel (premodern)

Post-sail

• Monitor [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dreadnought [r]: Add brief definition or description

Sailing warships

• Ship of the line [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Frigate (sail) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sloop-of-war [r]: Add brief definition or description

Major navies or equivalent

• Royal Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Russian Federation Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• French Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Indian Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description

Ranks

• Admiral [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Captain (naval) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Petty officer [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Piracy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Montreux Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description