are also known as motor launches. Motor launches were slower than motor torpedo boats and motor gun boats Although small by naval standards, it was larger...

launch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Launch or launched may refer to: Launch (boat), one of several different sorts of boat Motor launch (naval)...

War, Britain fielded a variety of motor launches (MLs), motor torpedo boats (MTBs), motor gunboats (MGBs) and motor anti-submarine boats (MASBs), which...

high standard. In naval use, the launch was introduced as a ship's boat towards the end of the 17th century. On each warship, the launch was usually the...

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underwater vehicles and unmanned surface vehicles. As a naval vessel, a drone carrier is capable of launching and picking up combat drones without the need for...

Beeville, Texas Mere Liye (also known as ML), a 2001 album by Sagarika. Motor launch (naval), a type of small Royal Navy vessel used by British Coastal Forces...

leaving formation to turn into the wind for launch or recovery of aircraft. The speed of the carrier during launch effectively decreased the takeoff distance...

linear induction motor (LIM), which uses alternating current (AC) to generate magnetic fields that propel a carriage along a track to launch the aircraft...

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A naval ship (or naval vessel) is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) that is used by a navy. Naval ships are differentiated...

cruiser turned out to be an unsuccessful design. The rapid development of naval aircraft in the 1930s quickly rendered the vessels obsolete, and they were...

A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive...

designs built by the UK and US and by different manufacturers. The British motor landing craft (MLC) was conceived and tested in the 1920s and was used from...

were rigged as ketches or brigs. However, the typical rig, especially in Naval or revenue protection use, was a single-masted rig setting a huge amount...

During the 1930s and World War II, the French Navy and later the Free French Naval Forces operated the submarine tender Jules Verne. Unable to operate a significant...

Naval Submarine Base Bangor is a former submarine base of the United States Navy that was merged with Naval Station Bremerton into Naval Base Kitsap in...

expenditures in light of the increasing cost of keeping up with German naval production and in part because he felt the type to be outdated, Fisher authorized...

Egyptian Navy, the Republic of Korea Navy (South Korea) and the Turkish Naval Forces. The term amphibious assault ship is often used interchangeably with...

The Fairmile B motor launch (often abbreviated to 'ML') was a very numerous class of motor launch produced in kit form by British boatbuilder Fairmile...

many as five hundred vertical launch bays for large-sized missiles, most likely cruise missiles. In current U.S. naval thinking, such a ship would initially...

criticism that the British, by launching HMS Dreadnought, threw away a strategic advantage. Most of the United Kingdom's naval rivals had already contemplated...

Japanese Navy seaplane carrier Wakamiya conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids from Kiaochow Bay. The four Maurice Farman seaplanes bombarded...

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single ballistic missile launch tube in its sail. This submarine launched the world's first SLBM, an R-11FM (SS-N-1 Scud-A, naval modification of SS-1 Scud)...

while carrying powerful weapons. Previously, increasing the potency of naval artillery required larger projectiles, which required larger and heavier...

Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-790-9. Halpern, Paul G. (1995). A Naval History of World War I. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press...

combatants. Contrary to industry submissions and advice from naval experts, vertical launch systems were not included in the new designs for reasons of...

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle...

Naval Support Activity Bahrain (or NSA Bahrain) is a United States Navy base, situated in the Kingdom of Bahrain and is home to U.S. Naval Forces Central...