during naval warfare, the naval equivalent of military tactics on land. Naval tactics are distinct from naval strategy. Naval tactics are concerned with the...
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Sailing ship tactics were the naval tactics employed by sailing ships in contrast to galley tactics employed by oared vessels. This article focuses on...
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Ancient Greek warfare (redirect from A Comparison of Greek Naval and Land Tactics in the 5th Century B.C.)
Greek navy had to create new tactics and technology to be able to conquer its opponents. The diekplous was an ancient Greek naval operation used to infiltrate...
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Oared vessel tactics were the dominant form of naval tactics used from antiquity to the late 16th century when sailing ships began to replace galleys...
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explosive shells in the mid-19th century rendered sailing ship tactics obsolete. New tactics were developed for the big-gun Dreadnought battleships. The...
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Navy (redirect from Naval Combatant)
sails. Warships were designed to carry increasing numbers of cannon and naval tactics evolved to bring a ship's firepower to bear in a broadside, with ships-of-the-line...
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Battle of Tsushima (redirect from Naval tactics at the Battle of Tsushima)
R (1997). Kaigun: strategy, tactics, and technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-192-7...
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all naval ship-to-ship combat focused primarily on boarding, although ramming and incendiaries were secondary tactics. Greek and Persian naval tactics emphasized...
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mounted them, defined the environment in which the naval tactics in the Age of Sail developed. Firing a naval cannon required a great amount of labour and manpower...
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program that teaches air combat maneuvering tactics and techniques to selected naval aviators and naval flight officers, who return to their operating...
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at Naval Air Station Fallon located in the city of Fallon in western Nevada. It is the center of excellence for naval aviation training and tactics development...
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Naval strategy is the planning and conduct of war at sea, the naval equivalent of military strategy on land. Naval strategy, and the related concept of...
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American Civil War (section Naval tactics)
agricultural base of the Shenandoah Valley, a strategy similar to the tactics Sherman later employed in Georgia. Meanwhile, Sherman maneuvered from Chattanooga...
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Ships of ancient Rome (section Naval tactics)
penteconter was not romanized for the Roman version of this ship. Major tactics of naval vessels in combat included physically ramming the enemy boats, brushing...
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Ironclad warship (category Naval armour)
as they were finished and that naval tactics were in a state of flux. Many ironclads were built to make use of the naval ram, the torpedo, or sometimes...
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Line of battle (redirect from Doubling (naval tactic))
ranging from 1502 to 1652. Line-of-battle tactics were in widespread use by 1675. Compared with prior naval tactics, in which two opposing ships closed on...
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layers of Chinese naval ships, China Coast Guard ships, and fishing boats and cut off the island from outside support. Cabbage tactics were first named...
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Fyodor Ushakov (section Tactics)
course of 43 naval battles under his command he did not lose a single ship and never lost a battle. Distinguishing features of Ushakov's tactics were: use...
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Ship of the line (category Age of Sail naval ships)
fell into disuse except in historical contexts, after warships and naval tactics evolved and changed from the mid-19th century. Some other languages...
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U. S. Naval Tactics and Battle Plans in the Interwar Period, [in:] International Journal of Naval History 1/2 Bennett, Geoffrey (2003), Naval Battles...
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data and naval tactics, terrorist threats, and surface, submarine, and airborne training, readiness and tactics." In the June 2010 issue of Naval History...
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naval and air equivalents. Military tactics concerns itself with the methods for engaging and defeating the enemy in direct combat. Military tactics are...
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mention of strategy or tactics seems to have survived.[citation needed] Josephus Flavius (Antiquities IX 283–287) reports a naval battle between Tyre and...
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Early modern warfare (section Naval warfare)
Sail, which characteristic dominated the era's naval tactics, including the use of gunpowder in naval artillery. All of the Great Powers of Europe and...
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Paul Hoste (section Advanced tactics)
Hoste (1652–1700) was a Jesuit priest and naval tactician who produced the first major work on naval tactics. Born at Brest in 1652, he was trained by...
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Anti-aircraft warfare (section Tactics)
Admiral Charles B. Momsen, in a 1953 article. Layered air defence in naval tactics, especially within a carrier group, is often built around a system of...
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Marines (redirect from Naval infantry)
Roman crews remained inferior in naval experience to the Carthaginians and could not hope to match them in naval tactics, which required great fleet maneuverability...
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Shock tactics, shock tactic, or shock attack is an offensive maneuver which attempts to place the enemy under psychological pressure by a rapid and fully-committed...
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