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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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Western Countries Social Prominence
1,882 words... validity of Soucasauxs statement. We can say that the reason why men cannot stand the sight of womens menstrual blood is not that they loathe it, in esthetic sense of this word, but that they feel that it contains a some kind of an unexplained force. It is not a secret that macho men despise domesticated hubbies more then anybody else, because in their eyes, feminized men became subjected to female existential power in other words, they committed a gender suicide. If we rid the popular stere...
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North And South Bermuda Triangle
1,432 wordsThe Dragons Triangle On the other side of the world from the Bermuda Triangle is similar mysterious place called the Dragons Triangle. To the Japanese this place is known as Ma-No Umi, which means the sea of the Devil. For centuries Japanese fishermen have told stories of mysterious losses of fishing boats to Sea Demons and Dragons who inhabit the Triangle. Ships have been recorded missing in the triangle for more than 3000 years some reports go as far back as the Sung and You dynasties of ancie...
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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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Perception Of Death Farewell To Arms
1,862 wordsResearch Paper The central theme in Hemingway's work is heroism. Most of his novels are not primarily studies of death or simply researches into the lost generation. They are essentially the portrayal of a hero, the man who by force of some extraordinary quality sets the standards for those around him. Hemingway has always kept four subjects in his mind when writing. These four subjects which have always fascinated Hemingway are fishing, hunting, bullfighting, and war, in which all have shown so...
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Aircraft Carriers Pearl Harbor
3,616 words? The key to national greatness is a strong industrial economy coupled with a powerful navy. ? Introduction It was 8 AM at in the Pacific on December 7, 1941, and a harbor filled with a few warships was being bombed. It wasn? t uncommon for a harbor bombing during the times of World War II. What was uncommon was the fact that the harbor belonged to the United States, a country that wasn? t involved in the war yet, and the country bombing it was Japan, a country that had come out of isolation jus...
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U S Navy U S Forces
1,721 wordsThe JMSDF (Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force) Japan is an island country surrounded by water. This means that the threat to Japan always comes from the sea. Japan also relies heavily on other countries for the supply of natural resources that are indispensable to national existence. Over 90 percent of imports are transported through sea routes. Taking into account the factors of geographical and economic features, the main mission of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) is to defend t...
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Exxon Valdez Water Pollution
869 wordsPollution of lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans has been killing land and water animals for years. Water pollution kills all kinds of animals every year. The EXXON VALDEZ oil spill near anchorage Alaska caused over 3, 000 otters to die, 36, 000 different kinds of seabirds were killed and over 100 eagles. The Exxon Valdez spilled over 11 million gallons of crude oil in 1989 because of somebody's carelessness. Oil spills are one of the worst types of pollution. They happen most often in the ocean ...
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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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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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