An anti-submarine net or anti-submarine boom is a boom placed across the mouth of a harbour or a strait for protection against submarines. Net laying...
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An anti-submarine weapon (ASW) is any one of a number of devices that are intended to act against a submarine and its crew, to destroy (sink) the vessel...
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The Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net was an anti-torpedo and submarine defence net that was in Sydney Harbour during World War II. It spanned the...
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Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms...
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A submarine's net cutter is a device mounted on the bows of some naval submarines to cut through anti-submarine netting. Some net cutters are powered...
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A net layer's primary function was to lay and maintain steel anti-submarine nets or anti torpedo nets. Nets could be laid around an individual ship at...
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goal of denying access to an enemy's ships: a modern example is the anti-submarine net. Booms have also been used to force passing vessels to pay a toll...
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designed specifically to tackle fast-moving torpedo boats. An anti-submarine net and anti-boat boom was laid across the estuary from Cramond Island directly...
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water channel it became an anti-submarine net. At intervals along the net 200-ton lighters were stationed armed with anti-aircraft guns and searchlights...
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conquer Vardar Macedonia. On 4 September, the submarine HMS E7 was caught in the Ottoman anti-submarine net as it began another tour. Despite such reverses...
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serve until 1947. Enterprise was an uncommissioned auxiliary patrol anti-submarine net drifter with Harwich local forces from 1914 to 1918. Enterprise II...
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The United States Navy Net Depot Tiburon was a military facility charged with maintaining and deploying an anti-submarine net across the Golden Gate between...
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Chastise. Net cutter (submarine) Net cutter (fisheries patrol) Net laying ship Anti-submarine defensesUS Navy Russell, Phil (29 August 2002). "Anti-Torpedo...
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launched at the entrance to the fjord. Pedersen's W46 encountered an anti-submarine net and was forced to the surface, where she was spotted by a German patrol...
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on 6 December and was the second ship to enter the harbour as the anti-submarine net between Georges Island and Pier 21 opened for the morning. Mont-Blanc...
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human rights advocates USS Elder (AN-20), a US Navy World War II anti-submarine net laying ship Elder High School, Cincinnati, Ohio Elders Limited, an...
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"Seeigel" and "Nashorn", as well as protection of the German-Finnish anti-submarine net across the gulf. During the Soviet assault in the summer of 1944,...
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Attack on Sydney Harbour (redirect from 1942 Japanese submarine attack on Sydney)
midget submarines, (M-14, M-21 and M-24) each with a two-member crew, entered Sydney Harbour, avoided the partially constructed Sydney Harbour anti-submarine...
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of Soviet submarines in the open Baltic for the following year. A decisive element of the Axis blockade was laying a double anti-submarine net, named "Walrus"...
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During World War II new gun batteries, searchlights and a steel anti-submarine net were installed between the island and York Redoubt to prevent German...
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RUM-139 VL-ASROC (category Anti-submarine missiles of the United States)
The RUM-139 Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket (VL-ASROC or VLA) is an anti-submarine missile in the ASROC family, currently built by Lockheed Martin...
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side of the channel) in protecting access to Hampton Roads with an anti-submarine net. Fort Wool was decommissioned after World War II. It was ceded to...
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of any ships passing over it. Outer harbour defences included an anti-submarine net spanning 9370 metres of seabed from Woodman Point to Garden Island...
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Submarine warfare is one of the four divisions of underwater warfare, the others being anti-submarine warfare, mine warfare and mine countermeasures....
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Crash Dive (category World War II submarine films)
destroying it. The Corsair follows a coastal tanker through the harbor anti-submarine net and puts a landing party commanded by Stewart ashore to wreak as much...
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women of the ROC watched for enemy activity around the loch, the anti-submarine net (positioned between Davaar and Trench Point) was maintained by the...
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anti-submarine net - but was able to get loose. A mine which had been attached to the obstacle exploded but caused only light damage to the submarine...
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the Navy operates a wide variety of warships including: 13 frigates, 10 submarines, 19 missile boats, 10 gunboats, and 15 helicopters. List of current Greek...
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Improved Kilo II. The Project 877 attack submarines were mainly intended for anti-shipping and anti-submarine operations in relatively shallow waters....
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An anti-submarine warfare carrier (ASW carrier) (US hull classification symbol CVS) is a type of small aircraft carrier whose primary role is as the nucleus...
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