A target ship is a vessel — typically an obsolete or captured warship — used as a seaborne target for naval gunnery practice or for weapons testing. Targets...
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Operation Crossroads (section Able Target array)
which had developed nuclear weapons during World War II. A fleet of 95 target ships was assembled in Bikini Lagoon and hit with two detonations of Fat Man...
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mobile, or towed behind other craft, or just set adrift in the sea. Target ships are vessels, typically obsolete or captured warships, used for naval...
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via the bombardier to lead the missile to its target by radio control.[citation needed] Many anti-ship missiles can be launched from a variety of weapons...
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heading of the target ship to a straight line drawn from the target ship to the submarine. When target angle is 0° (or 360° ) the target ship is coming directly...
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cards and soda, these distribution centers ship items directly to Target stores. Also, unlike Walmart, Target's grocery selection does not come from their...
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The Ōhama-class target ship (大濱型標的艦, Ōhama-gata hyōtekikan) was a bombing target ship class of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World...
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class is a ship class of Landing Helicopter Assault (LHA) type amphibious assault ships operated by the United States Navy (USN). Five ships were built...
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194, No 14 & No 198 of Type D escort ship. Used by PLAN as CDS & retired in 1975, 1983, 1983, 1975 (sunk as a target), 1956 & 1975 respectively. PLANS Chongqing...
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The Hakachi (波勝) was a bomb target ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) serving during the Second World War, the only ship of her class. Project number...
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Dubei class target ship (AGT) and range supporting vessel is a very little known auxiliary ship of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), and has received...
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and probably made the situation look worse than it was. The disarmed target ship Utah was holed twice by torpedoes. West Virginia was hit by seven torpedoes...
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AGM-158C LRASM (redirect from Long Range Anti-Ship Missile)
to pioneer more sophisticated autonomous targeting capabilities than the U.S. Navy's current Harpoon anti-ship missile, which has been in service since...
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would destroy a $10,000 torpedo. The Navy was also reluctant to supply target ships. Consequently, there were no live-fire tests, and the designers had to...
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wake trajectory left behind a moving target. The torpedo is fired to cross behind the stern of the target ship, through the wake. As it does so, it uses...
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Florida was scrapped, Utah converted into first a radio-controlled target ship, then an anti-aircraft gunnery trainer. She served in the latter role...
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HMS Agamemnon (1906) (category Ships built on the River Clyde)
Mudros on board the ship while she was anchored at Lemnos in the northern Aegean Sea. She was converted to a radio-controlled target ship following her return...
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USS G-1 (category Ships sunk as targets)
USS G-1 (SS-19½) was the lead ship of her class of submarine of the United States Navy. While the four G-boats were nominally all of a class, they differed...
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New York-class battleship (section Ships in class)
York was used as a target ship in Operation Crossroads and sunk as a target in 1948, while Texas was converted into a museum ship, and was moored in San...
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Sea skimming (category Anti-ship missiles)
probability of being shot down during their approach to the target. Sea-skimming anti-ship missiles try to fly as low as is practically achievable, which...
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smaller profile compared to firing at the target ship's broadside and thus more likely to miss the target ship to one side or the other, an individual cannon...
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List of battleships of the United States Navy (category Lists of ships of the United States Navy)
other battleships have been sunk as targets, and USS Utah, demilitarized and converted into a target and training ship, was permanently destroyed at Pearl...
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Self-replicating spacecraft (redirect from Seeder ship)
immediately switch to "resource extraction" mode and attempt to dismantle the target ship for raw materials. While the plot claims that the probes reproduce "at...
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Stingray, Dodge has fired two live torpedoes at 900 yards (820 m) into a target ship anchored in Norfolk Harbor, thereby humiliating Graham and winning the...
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USS Skate (SS-305) (category Ships sunk as targets)
from 1943 to 1946. She was used as a target ship in the 1946 atomic bomb tests and finally sunk as a target ship in October 1948. Skate was laid down...
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USS Killen (category Ships sunk as targets)
and decommissioning on 9 July 1946. The veteran destroyer served as a target ship during the atom bomb tests in 1958 (Operation Hardtack I, shots WAHOO...
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List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy (category Lists of ships of the United States Navy)
as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these ships are designated with hull classification symbols such as CV (Aircraft Carrier)...
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Japanese cruiser Takao (1930) (category Ships sunk as targets)
as a target ship in 1946. The Takao-class ships were approved under the 1927 to 1931 supplementary fiscal year budget, and like her sister ships, was...
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in the age of sailing ships and black powder cannon to shoot masts, or to cut the shrouds and any other rigging of a target ship.[citation needed] When...
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mother ship, mothership or mother-ship is a large vehicle that leads, serves, or carries other smaller vehicles. A mother ship may be a maritime ship, aircraft...
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