A brown-water navy or riverine navy, in the broadest sense, is a naval force capable of military operations in littoral zone waters. The term originated...

"blue-water navy" is a maritime geographical term in contrast with "brown-water navy" (littoral waters and near to shore) and "green-water navy" (near...

between two long-standing descriptors: blue-water navy (deep waters of open oceans) and brown-water navy (littoral waters and near to shore). As a non-doctrinal...

military units to loosely define three maritime regions: brown water, green water, and blue water. The elements of maritime geography are loosely defined...

littoral applications (brown-water navy), open-ocean applications (blue-water navy), and something in between (green-water navy), although these distinctions...

and deployable than a navy that just maintains corvettes or gunboats. A frigate navy can be a green water navy or a brown water navy, depending on how logistics...

the Swift Boat by the U.S. Navy's Brown Water Navy during the Vietnam War. List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy Sherwood, John (31 January...

Republic of China Navy which had defected. Until the late 1980s, the PLAN was largely a riverine and littoral force (brown-water navy) mostly in charge...

18 December 1965, the US Navy, for the second time in one hundred years, authorized the reactivation of a brown-water navy for riparian operations in...

the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the brown-water navy. It was modeled after lessons learned by...

left Ethiopia landlocked. However, the Ethiopian Navy was re-established in 2019 as a brown water navy and is based in Lake Tana in Bahir Dar, Amhara region...

included Brown Water Navy/Riverine Forces during the Vietnam War. Few of these ships are in service today. PBR: Patrol Boat, River, Brown Water Navy (Pibber...

United States Navy, initially to patrol the coastal areas and later for work in the interior waterways as part of the brown-water navy to interdict Vietcong...

18 December 1965, the U.S. Navy, for the second time in a hundred years, authorized the reactivation of a brown-water navy, this time in South Vietnam...

but blockade runners provided a thin lifeline. The Brown-water navy components of the U.S. navy control of the river systems made internal travel difficult...

Navy (French: Marine nationale) is the maritime component of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC). It is a brown-water navy,...

of the Royal Navy Carrico, John M (2007). Vietnam Ironclads, A Pictorial History of US Navy River Assault Craft, 1966-1970. Brown Water Enterprises....

Joiner, Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy, p. 138. Joiner, Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy, pp. 65–66. Joiner, Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy, p. 46. Milligan...

With the Peruvian Navy destroyed, Bolivia becoming a landlocked country, and Argentina having only a brown-water navy, the Chilean Navy had a regional hegemony...

the West, USS Switzerland, USS Lancaster and USS Monarch during the brown-water navy battle for control of the Mississippi River and its tributaries as...

applications (brown-water navy), open-ocean applications (blue-water navy), between riverine/littoral and open-ocean applications (green-water navy), although...

nation's navy, coast guard, police, or customs, and may be intended for marine ("blue water"), estuarine ("green water"), or river ("brown water") environments...

tubes. The British were the first to operate scout cruisers, when the Royal Navy acquired 15 ships divided into two distinct groups - the eight vessels all...

were often outnumbered by Chinese and North Koreans, but US Air Force and Navy aviators had control of the air over nearly all of the Korean Peninsula....

its engine power alone as it may exit the atmosphere. The United States Navy's hull classification symbols for cruise missile submarines are SSG and SSGN...

carrier, is an aircraft carrier smaller than the standard carriers of a navy. The precise definition of the type varies by country; light carriers typically...

forces are often referred to as brown-water navies. There are several reasons a landlocked country may choose to maintain a navy. If a river or lake forms a...

The fast combat support ship (US Navy hull classification symbol: AOE) is a type of replenishment auxiliary ship. Different from traditional logistic ships...

series of changes were implemented to transform the VPN from a purely brown-water navy to one capable of safeguarding its territorial interests in the South...

up as a German minelayer, and Ramb IV was converted for the Italian Royal Navy to a hospital ship.) These commerce raiders carried no armour because their...