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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis...

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...

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...

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...

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...

to pioneer more sophisticated autonomous targeting capabilities than the U.S. Navy's current Harpoon anti-ship missile, which has been in service since...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Florida was scrapped, Utah converted into first a radio-controlled target ship, then an anti-aircraft gunnery trainer. She served in the latter role...

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...

other battleships have been sunk as targets, and USS Utah, demilitarized and converted into a target and training ship, was permanently destroyed at Pearl...

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...

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...

engine. It is primarily a land-attack missile; the Kh-59MK variant targets ships. The initial design was based on the Raduga Kh-58 (AS-11 'Kilter'),...

submarine. Bars represented ships torpedoed, although post-war flags have sometimes used the silhouette of the target ship instead. Mines indicated minelaying...

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...

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...

with the rest of the battleships, as she had since been converted to a target ship. However, she was still sunk within a few minutes of the battle. Arizona:...

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...

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...

for scrap in 1920, but Agamemnon was converted into a radio-controlled target ship that year and continued in that role until being sold for scrap in early...