The Eight-Eight Fleet Program (八八艦隊, Hachihachi Kantai) was a Japanese naval strategy formulated for the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy in...

name, chosen by Edsel Ford, that of the fleet-footed messenger of the gods of Roman mythology. The Mercury Eight was strongly identified as an upmarket...

Carrier Air Wing Eight (CVW-8), is a United States Navy aircraft carrier air wing based at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia. The air wing is attached...

Number Eight is a female humanoid Cylon model on the television series Battlestar Galactica, a reimagining of the 1978 show of the same name. She is portrayed...

battlecruisers planned for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as part of the Eight-eight fleet in the early 1920s. The ships were to be named Amagi, Akagi, Atago...

When Eight Bells Toll is a first-person narrative novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean and published in 1966. It marked MacLean's return...

Qantas operates a fleet of Airbus A330, Airbus A380, Boeing 737 and Boeing 787 making a total of 125 aircraft. This list excludes subsidiaries Jetstar...

construction of a battle fleet of eight modern battleships and eight battlecruisers. This was the genesis of the Eight-Eight Fleet Program, the development...

received names. They were intended to reinforce Japan's "eight-eight fleet" of eight battleships and eight battlecruisers after the United States announced a...

Tosa-gata Senkan) were two dreadnoughts ordered as part of the "Eight-Eight" fleet for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the early 1920s. The ships...

Numbers 13–16. They were intended to reinforce Japan's "eight-eight fleet" of eight battleships and eight battlecruisers after the United States announced a...

in the Japanese navy were still dissatisfied, calling for an 'eight-eight-eight' fleet with 24 modern battleships and battlecruisers. The British, impoverished...

re-entered operation, this time as the sole cruise ship in Swan Hellenic's fleet. The vessel was named Minerva II, after both the Roman goddess and the company's...

battle. These planes were the first Navy aircraft to attack the Japanese fleet that day. They attacked without fighter cover, and five of the Avengers...

British counterparts, the Eight-Eight Fleet Program was restarted. The first battleships built for the renewed Eight-Eight Fleet Program were the two dreadnoughts...

mackerel fleets at Prouts Neck, one at dawn and the other at sunset; on the third he painted a grisaille study of the work that inspired Eight Bells, which...

under the Eight-eight fleet plan. They have two sub-classes, this article handles them collectively. In 1920, the IJN developed an Eight-eight Fleet Plan which...

need a fleet at least 70 percent as strong as the United States' in order to emerge victorious. To that end, the concept of the Eight-Eight fleet was developed...

1907, the official policy of the Navy became an 'eight-eight fleet' of eight modern battleships and eight battlecruisers. However, financial constraints...

was initially planned in 1920 as one of six of the oilers under the Eight-eight fleet final plan. Kamoi was completed 12 September 1922, and classified...

between 1922 and 1924 under the Eight-eight fleet plan. The IJN planned to build over 100 submarines under the Eight-eight fleet plan, and it was recognized...

Airlines fleet, comprising 149 passenger aircraft and 12 freighters. On May 16, 2023, Singapore Airlines confirmed that it had cancelled orders for eight Boeing...

for the expansion of Japan's fleet to include eight battleships and eight battlecruisers. Immediately, issues with the fleet expansion plan surfaced because...

latter's fleet posed such a significant threat to its own. The primary component of the Fleet was its battleships, typically organized in eight-ship squadrons...

wholly owned by Villegas Group of Buses. It was formed in 2012. The fleet Diamond V–Eight is composed of 10 units. All of them are UD Trucks Condor PKB212...

first eight months of the Pacific War. At the time of its best-known operation, the attack on Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, the 1st Air Fleet was the...

128 (one hundred [and] twenty-eight) is the natural number following 127 and preceding 129. 128 is the seventh power of 2. It is the largest number which...

The United States Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) is a service component command of the United States Navy that provides naval forces to a wide variety of...

U.S. Navy carrier strike groups currently assigned to the United States Fleet Forces Command. USS Gerald R. Ford is the aircraft carrier assigned as the...

options on eight more. The exercised options, later making for a total fleet of 17 Boeing 787-9s, were planned replace the Heathrow-based 747 fleet during...