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US and Navy
A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh ( CG-67 ) | USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga-class cruiser.
* 1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
* 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U. S. submarine sunk in accident.
* Destroyer Tender ( US Navy Hull Classification: AD ), support ships to aid the operation of a fleet of destroyers
The AIM-7 Sparrow medium range missile ( MRM ) was purchased by the US Navy from original developer Howard Hughes
Link-4 datalink capability allowed US Navy Tomcats to share information with the E-2C Hawkeye AEW aircraft, and during Desert Shield in 1990, the Link-4A was introduced and allowed the Tomcats to have a fighter-to-fighter datalink capability, further enhancing overall situational awareness.
Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.
* Users: US ( U. S. Navy ), Iran ( IRIAF )
However, before RAT-C reached initial operational status in 1960 aboard the large US Navy destroyer-leader Norfolk, its name was changed to the present ASROC.
Most other US Navy and allied navy destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, and several different classes of cruisers only carried the one ASROC ' matchbox ' MK 112 launcher with eight ASROC missiles ( although later in service, some of those missiles could be replaced by the Harpoon anti-ship missile ).
To replace the Embraer P-95 Bandeirulha in the maritime patrol duties, 12 Lockheed P-3A Orions have been bought from US Navy surplus and eight ( with an option for a ninth ) of them are being upgraded by EADS CASA in Spain, the remainder are to be used as spare parts source.
To carry out the plans of power projection that Brazil wants to run, the expenditure will cost more than US $ 138 billion, within the Navy alone.
* Several US Navy ships have been named the or the, the latter being a French translation of his penname " Poor Richard ".
Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.
Sir Edward Grey replied through the American ambassador that the incident could be grouped together with the Germans ' sinking of the SS Arabic, their attack on a stranded British submarine on the neutral Dutch coast, and their attack on the steamship Ruel, and suggested that they be placed before a tribunal composed of US Navy officers.
The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when USS Cyclops, under the command of Lt Cdr G. W.
US Navy Avengers, similar to those of Flight 19.
The US Navy warship Lexington visited the atoll in late 1915 and advised evacuation of all inhabitants, but the governor, Captain Arnaud, declared that evacuation was not necessary.
Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.
* USS Columbus, various ships of the US Navy
The main outcome of the US Navy submarine missile project was the SSM-N-8 Regulus missile, based upon the V-1.
# Blockade: Use the US Navy to block any missiles from arriving in Cuba.
However, Army units in the United States would have had trouble fielding mechanized and logistical assets, while the US Navy could not supply sufficient amphibious shipping to transport even a modest armored contingent from the Army.
A US Navy P-2 Neptune | P-2H Neptune of VP-18 flying over a Soviet cargo ship with crated Ilyushin Il-28 | Il-28s on deck during the Cuban Crisis.
* Construction Electrician ( US Navy ), a Seabee occupational rating in the U. S. Navy

US and Military
Anspach is also home to a US Military base.
* US Army Garrison Ansbach-Ansbach Military Community
* T-1A Jayhawk Military version of Model 400 used as a trainer for pilots of large aircraft in the US military.
In the US Military, wearing of the tag is required at all times by soldiers in the field.
Alternatively, in the US Military, two identical tags are issued.
The US Navy operates Naval Support Facility ( NSF ) Diego Garcia, a large naval ship and submarine support base, military air base, communications and space-tracking facility, and an anchorage for pre-positioned military supplies for regional operations aboard Military Sealift Command ships in the lagoon.
* AOE class at US Navy Military Sealift Command
* Guam Residents Organize Against US Plans for $ 15B Military Buildup on Pacific Island-video report by Democracy Now!
Military aid more than doubled to reach just under US $ 9 million by FY 1981, surged to more than US $ 31 million by FY 1982, and stood at US $ 48. 3 million in FY 1983.
As of 2010 US Military spending is about 43 % of the world total .. Only a handful of countries spent a larger portion of GDP on military in 2010 and of these only Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates spent more than US $ 10 billion.
The US Office of Military Cooperation in Kuwait is attached to the American Embassy and manages the FMS program.
The Daily Mail reports that Edward has had the photograph independently verified by specialists like a Loch Ness Monster sighting devotee and a group of US Military monster experts.
* National Military Appreciation Month – in the United States to recognize and honor the US Armed Forces.
* The US Military Commissions Act of 2006
Major Naval Units in PLA Military Region s in 2006 ( Source: US DOD ) – click to enlarge.
In the 1980s, upon the death of one of the US Military men, the Theft of medieval art from Quedlinburg came to light.
Additionally, the US Military experimented with designing a special version of the Smith and Wesson Model 29 for Tunnel Rats, called the Quiet Special Purpose Revolver or QSPR.
The US Military used radioteletype in the 1930s and expanded this usage during World War II.
São Toméan military officers have been receiving training in the US under the International Military Education and Training ( IMET ) programme.
On July 4, 1802, the US Military Academy at West Point formally started as an institution for scientific and military learning.
* Bid whist ( a partnership game with bidding, played in the USA, and made popular by the US Military )

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