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U S Navy Surface Of The Water
2,531 wordsWouldnt it be fun to ride a torpedo, or drive a nuclear reactor around underwater? In this research paper I am going to illustrate the ingenious submarine. The submarine is one of the most important strategic and tactical weapons systems of the 20 th Century, and this importance will increase in the 21 st Century. The tiny, leaking, creaking, and unsafe submarine boats of the 1890 s, displacing under two hundred tons and carrying a handful of men and a few torpedoes have grown into massive, soph...
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U S Navy World War Ii
2,464 words... torpedoes against merchant ships was demonstrated, virtually all submarines were fitted with one. After the war the Germans were the first to realize that the gun and its mount created a great deal of hydrodynamic resistance and that, in any case, radar and the use of the submarine on the surface. So they got rid of there guns, as follows several other navies. By the late 1950 s there were virtually no deck guns left. Although curiously, the Peruvian Navy still remains a gun on its Dos de Ma...
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Submarines In The Revolutionary And Civil Wars
995 wordsThe Trident Submarine houses twenty-four nuclear warheads with each having a range of 4, 600 miles over land. If a nuclear war were to break out between the Soviet Union and the United States, virtually every major city could be destroyed in a matter of hours. The origin of these major players in modern day warfare lies in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. A Dutchman named Cornelius Van Drebbel, made the very first submarine in 1652, to fight the mighty Spanish ship called the Rotterdam Boat. It...
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Submarines In The Revolutionary And Civil Wars
1,020 words... ve the submarine. This was a great risk because the submarine could easily collide with the torpedo as it was surfacing. To rectify the problem, the engineers attached a twenty-two foot battling ram to the front of the ship along with the torpedo on the end. When the torpedo hit the enemy ship and detonated the Pioneer III and the men would theoretically be unharmed and would only have to suffer a slight jolt from the explosion. The Confederate navy was still desperate to break the Union blo...
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Running Head Global Explorer
1,760 wordsRunning Head: Global Explorer Global Explorer (Authors Name) (Institution Name) Global Explorer MAD was the very apt abbreviation for the words mutual assured destruction doctrine during the cold war in which the opposing sides of the United States and Russia would effectively annihilate each other. This doctrine was based on the theory and military strategy through which the full range of nuclear weapons of both sides would be used against each other and this worked as a deterrence for the prev...
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Doors Well Leave Lips When I Couldnt Breathe Russian
416 wordsSung to the tune of Yellow Submarine In the town Where I was born Lived a man With PhD And he told Us of his job Making Russian Submarine So we sailed Up to the north Till we found The Barents Sea And we sank Beneath the waves In our Russian Submarine all drown in a Russian Submarine A Russian Submarine A Russian Submarine We all drown in a Russian Submarine A Russian Submarine A Russian SubmarinCasualties Jump by the score As we hit The ocean floor And the air Begins to fade In the submarine Th...
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One Of The Greatest U Boats
939 wordsEnglish 1 A 11 / 24 / 99 Submarines: The Underwater War The submarine is one of the greatest naval inventions in the history of war. This innovation allows men to dive to certain depths in the open seas at will. Submarines were equipped with weapons and communication devices. The submarine could stay at sea for months at a time and only required a few men to operate. They were small, quick, and hard to locate by larger ships. The submarine was thought to be the perfect naval vessel. The concept ...
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Makes The Story Red October
1,803 wordsMarko Red October 2) Outline: Marko 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...
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U S Navy World War Ii
5,009 wordsWouldn? t it be fun to ride a torpedo, or drive a nuclear reactor around underwater? In this research paper I am going to illustrate the ingenious submarine. The submarine is one of the most important strategic and tactical weapons systems of the 20 th Century, and this importance will increase in the 21 st Century. The tiny, leaking, creaking, and unsafe submarine boats of the 1890? s, displacing under two hundred tons and carrying a handful of men and a few torpedoes have grown into massive, s...
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U S Navy Ballistic Missile
2,579 wordsSUBMARINE ROLES AND MISSIONS The fundamental changes in the U. S. Submarine Force since the end of the Cold War involve major shifts in submarine warfighting concepts and doctrine, from the deterrence of global war to the support of U. S. national interests in regional crises and conflicts; from a primary Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) orientation against nuclear powered submarines to taking full advantage of the modern submarines multi-mission capabilities; from weapon loadout's of primarily MK 4...
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