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Makes The Story Jack Ryan
1,778 wordsMarko Ramius is the captain of the Russian super-submarine 'Red October'. The Red October is a modified submarine of the Typhoon-class and is nuclear powered. The 'October' can carry twenty-six nuclear missiles, enough firepower to blow up the city of Washington for about twenty times. To test this very expensive submarine (billions of dollars! ), the Russian navy has to find the 'Red October' in the Atlantic Ocean. Because the 'Red October' has a new propulsion-system that is very silent, it wi...
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Russian Navy Nuclear Submarine
1,673 wordsThe White Sea and the Barents Sea have been of importance to the Russian merchant fleet ever since the 15 th century. Because of this, Russias Navy has always been an important part of the Russian Military. The matter of access to ice free harbors in the north became even more important after Germany became a significant naval power in the Baltic Sea. Events during World War I increased the importance of the Kola Peninsula to Russia very much. The Kola Peninsula and the White sea played an vital...
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand President Woodrow Wilson
2,259 wordsIt is thought that this war that is been ongoing for over a year, began with the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand; however, many other reasons led to this war. Some occurring reasons date as far back as the late 1800 's. Nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and the system of alliances were four main factors that pressed the great powers towards this explosive war. Nationalism is the love of one's country rather that the love of a native region. Throughout the 1800 's many nationa...
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Second World War First World War
2,303 wordsAmong the most significant aspects of twentieth century military affairs has been how naval and land-based air power have transformed maritime operations. Today, much of the maritime arena is controlled, monitored, or exploited by aerospace systems. The capital ships of the modern era are the aircraft carrier and the missile-armed submarine, both weapons of three-dimensional warfare. The worlds sea lanes are monitored by aircraft and helicopters flown from the decks of aircraft carriers and othe...
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Post Cold War Second World War
2,205 words... latin was to launch the infamous Kamikaze anti shipping campaign. Though Japanese Army Air Force pilots occasionally flew on such one-way suicide missions, the overwhelming majority of Kamikazes were Japanese naval attackers. The threat of the Kamikaze was the greatest aerial anti shipping threat faced by Allied warfare forces in the war. Approximately 2, 800 Kamikaze attackers sunk 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4, 900 sailors, and wounded over 4, 800. The Kamikaze anticipated th...
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First World War Submarine Warfare
995 wordsThe First World War and Submarine Warfare The first "World War, " also known as the Great War, took place shortly after the turn of the century from 1914 - 1918, and was so named because it was the first conflict of global proportions. The war resulted in the loss of millions of lives and the virtual destruction of Europe. The stunning proportions of the war were due largely to the application of technology to warfare. The industrial revolution at the end of the nineteenth century had brought me...
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Lonely Hearts Upper Lip
2,216 words... he Came in Through the Bathroom Window" that William Campbell was once a police officer. The vinyl copy of "Sgt. Pepper's... " has lyrics printed on the back cover, layered over a picture of the Beatles. Paul is facing backwards, to signify he is an imposter, and he appears to be taller than everyone else, even though he, John, and George are the same height. The lyrics "Within You Without You" from the song of the same title are coming out of Paul's head. George's thumb is pointing to the l...
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Attack On Pearl Harbor People In Power
2,110 words... cause in such a case it means that, in most cases, some sort of aggressive behavior, or more aggressive behavior than before, will be exhibited because the cabinet was correcting their previous leniency and liberalism by electing Tojo. His accession marked the final triumph of the military faction which advocated war with the United States and Great Britain (Hideki). Washington knew the nature of the Tojo cabinet, and yet they did nothing. In both cases, no one monitored anything or anyone m...
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Fresh Air Six Hours
1,473 wordsOne had been swayed by the Yellow Submarine, that cool Beatles number of the 60 s. This one looked cool too. And mysterious. As it lolled on the gentle waters off Visakhapatnam, this mean machine seemed to hide Cimmerian secrets in its bosom. And some 70 men. The invitation from Commander S. Dasika of the Eastern Naval Command was too tempting to forego, in spite of the claustrophobic rush at the mention of a submarine. It is not often that one gets a chance to visit an Indian Navy submarine. An...
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World War One Declared War On Germany
1,344 wordsThe U-boat fleet all started in 1905, when the German government ordered for a new type of military submarine to be produced, and be called das Unterseebootein, which means undersea boat, and is abbreviated as U-boat. Within a short time, Krupps Germaniawerft plant designed the almost perfect submarine, except for one flaw, the use of petrol engines. Using gasoline was extremely dangerous, with the constant risk of explosions. So instead of petrol engines, they replaced them with diesel engines....
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Fresh Air Good Bye
1,414 wordsThe book "On the beach" by Nevil Shute tells about the time after the third world war, which was mostly fought between Russia, China and America. There were also some smaller countries involved. The first hydrogen bomb was dropped by Albania on Naples and other followed. The Russians sent bombers from Cairo to Washington and London. After that only a few statesmen were still alive. The war increased and a lot of hydrogen bombs were dropped. After some time the whole northern hemisphere was destr...
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Abraham Lincoln Dark Haired
1,446 wordsThe year 1866 is an important time in nautical history. It is the year that the world was first terrified by an amazing ocean going monster, the Nautilus. During that year several ships had met with this "thing, " a long slender object far greater in size than any creature known to man. After numerous sightings and the pass of many months the "monster" began attacking any vessel that drew near. This alarmed all the world's nations and the United States decided that they would send out the Abraha...
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Running Head Cold War Submarines
1,011 wordsRunning Head: Cold War - Submarines Cold War - Submarines (Authors Name) (Institution Name) Cold War Submarines The period between 1945 and until the breaking down and collapsing of the Soviet Union in 1991 is considered as a heated competition between the Soviet Union and with specificity with the United States. This period of competition is known as the Cold War because both the countries were in the continuous process of preparing for war with each other. However, luckily for the world and as...
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1960 And 1970 War In Vietnam
2,076 words... Korean War films raised questions about the willingness and the ability of Americans to live up to those ideals (See: The Korean War); and the Cold War films showed how those ideals can be called on to prevent war while at the same time containing the Soviet Union. They also favored subjects that featured those weapons most closely associated the nuclear war they were designed to prevent: the long-range bomber and the nuclear submarine. The first and most successful of the Air Force films, S...
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League Of Nations Declaration Of War
1,603 wordsThomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va. , on Dec. 28, 1856. He was profoundly influenced by a devoutly religious household headed by his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister, and his mother, Janet Woodrow Wilson, the daughter of a minister. Woodrow attended (1873 - 74) Davidson College and in 1875 entered the College of New Jersey graduating in 1879. Wilson studied (1879 - 80) at the University of Virginia Law School, briefly practiced law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entere...
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Nuclear Submarine Family Members
1,466 wordsThe Kursk, a Russian nuclear submarine, which sank on August 12 th is at the bottom of the Barents Sea, 150 km (90 miles) off Russias northwest coast. While performing a routine naval tactical exercise something undetermined went wrong sending the submarine to the sea s floor. One of the most advanced submarines of this modern era is now a casket of steel for all 118 crewmen that were aboard the vessel. President Vladimir Putin and his government s actions towards the disaster are both irrespons...
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Dollar Bill Five Dollar
1,160 wordsLaughing and Crying The bridge between laughing and crying is not long. During submarine deployments, it is customary to tell sea stories on those long boring mid-watches. During one particular mid-watch I told an amazing story that happened to me ten years earlier while stationed on my last submarine. This story shouldn t be told when your boss is part of the group because there could be repercussions that you may feel later. My story begins when I was on a submarine that was home-ported in Val...
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Armed Forces Coast Guard
641 wordsThe role of the officer in the armed forces is to provide leadership for all operational commands. Military officers are expected to command the managerial, executive, scientific and technical centers of high-level military operations. In the U. S. Army, the officer will command a fort or a brigade. In the Navy, he or she will command a ship, submarine, or aircraft squadron. In the Air Force, officers command space shuttles or engineering, airlift wing, medical staff, or logistics centers. In th...
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Charleston S C Volcanic Eruptions
2,884 wordstrembling or Natural Disasters earthquake, trembling or shaking movement of the earths surface. Most earthquakes are minor tremors. Larger earthquakes usually begin with slight tremors but rapidly take the form of one or more violent shocks, and end in vibrations of gradually diminishing force called aftershocks. The subterranean point of origin of an earthquake is called its focus; the point on the surface directly above the focus is the epicenter. The magnitude and intensity of an earthquake i...
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Bushnell Turtle Onboard Oxygen Supply Submarine
315 wordsMilitary submarines were invented by David Bushnell. He was born in Saybrook Connecticut in 1742, and died in 1824. He built the first military submarine in 1775. The name of this submarine was, ? Bushnell? s Turtle. ? The reason for this is because it looked like two turtle shells fused together to form an egg-like case. Lead ballast kept the craft upright and it was propelled by hand-operated screw-like devices. The submarine was submerged when a valve admitted sea-water into a ballast tank, a...
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