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Parent topics
- Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
- Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-submarine warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- C3I-ISR [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Littoral warfare [r]: Air, sea, subsurface, and land warfare that takes place in waters near a coast, or on coastal land areas. [e]
Subtopics
Variants
- EP-3 Aries II [r]: Signals intelligence variant of P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft; slower than Air Force RC-135 comparable aircraft [e]
- VP-3 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- NP-3C [r]: Add brief definition or description
Weapons
- 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]
- Mark 46 torpedo [r]: Lightweight antisubmarine torpedo, primarily air-dropped but also ship-launched for close-in defense [e]
- Mark 50 torpedo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-shipping missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Air-to-surface missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
Avionics
- 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]
- Littoral Surveillance Radar System [r]: An active electronically scanned array (AESA) surveillance radar, currently used on maritime patrol aircraft also used in littoral (military) and overland operation; the still highly classified system will go onto next-generation surveillance aircraft and provide targeting information to precision-guided munitions [e]
- Sonobuoy [r]: Air-dropped, expendable sensors for anti-submarine warfare [e]
Flight
- Protected Instrument Landing System
- Identification-friend-or-foe [r]: Add brief definition or description Mode S and Required Navigation Performance Area Navigation,
- GPS
- AN/ASQ-60 Autopilot
Network-centric warfare
- Joint Tactical Information Distribution System [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/USC-42(V)3 [r]: Add brief definition or description Miniaturized Demand Assigned Multiple Access [Mini-DAMA] will provide for secure voice communications. Mini-DAMA provides for the transmission, reception, and decryption of OTCIXS data and the subsequent routing of that data to the OASIS III TDP.
- OZ-72 [r]: Add brief definition or description(V) Multi-Mission Advanced Tactical Terminal [MATT] system will provide Tactical Receive Equipment (TRE) capability to receive and decrypt three simultaneous channels of Tactical Data Information Exchange Subsystem (TADIXS-B), Tactical Related Applications (TRAP), and Tactical Information Broadcast Service (TIBS) information
- Over-the-Horizon Airborne Sensor Information System [r]: Add brief definition or description [OASIS III], to process and correlate all data provided via MATT and Mini-DAMA. This links to the Officer in Tactical Command Information Exchange System (OTCIXS) message link]
Self-protection
- AN/AAR-47 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/ALE-47 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Anti-surface warfare
- AN/AAS-36A [r]: Add brief definition or description Infrared Detecting Set [IRDS] operating both in thermal imaging and visual light modes.
- AN/AVX-1 [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionElectro-Optical Sensor System [EOSS] stabilized day to night vision device.
- AN/APS-137B(V)5 [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionradar with navigation, weather, and SAR and ISAR imaging. is capable of multimode operation to provide periscope and small target detection, navigation, weather avoidance, long range surface search and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and ISAR imaging modes. SAR is best against fixed targets and ISAR against moving targets including surfaced submarines. All output can be recorded.\
Electronic warfare and electronic intelligence
- EP-2060 Pulse Analyzer [r]: Add brief definition or description with AN/ALR-66C(V)3 ELINT/electronic support receiver. The C version incorporates a spinning direction-finding antenna.
Antisubmarine warfare
- AN/USQ-78(V) [r]: Add brief definition or description Single Advanced Signal Processor system Display Control Unit
- AN/ALQ-158(V) [r]: Add brief definition or description Adaptive Controlled Phased Array System [ACPA] VHF sonobuoy receiving antenna system amplifies reception of sonobuoy signals
- AN/ARR-78(V)1 [r]: Add brief definition or description Advanced Sonobuoy Communications Link [ASCL] Receiver contains 20 receiver modules, each capable of accepting RF operating channels 1-99 (those sonobuoy channels now in use and those being developed for future use)
- AN/UYS-1( [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionV) Single Advanced Signal Processor System (SASP) of two basic subsystems, both controlled by :
- UYS-1 [r]: Add brief definition or description}(V)10 Analyzer Detecting Set, also called the AU, is installed with a primary function of processing acoustic signals through the use of a Spectrum Analyzer TS-4271/UYS-1(V).
- USQ-78(V) [r]: Add brief definition or description SASP Display Control Unit (DCU)'
- AN/ARS-5 [r]: Add brief definition or description Receiver-Converter Sonobuoy Reference System not only allows monitoring of sonoboys at a distance, but, when one of the remote buoys detects a signal, the display unit considers the aircraft's current course, the bearing to the target, and the display appears with the "fly to" bearing.
Communications
- AN/ARC-230 [r]: Add brief definition or description High Frequency (HF) radio, built around Rockwell-Collins HF-121C voice and data operation at 400W transmit power
- USQ-130/AN/USQ-130 [r]: Add brief definition or description Data Link
Notable crew
- Tom Carper [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shane Osborn [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Gurnon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- BaE Systems Nimrod [r]: Add brief definition or description
- P-8 Poseidon [r]: Add brief definition or description