In the late 1980s 10 further Skyhawks were obtained from Australia and, under the Kahu ( Falcon ) programme, the fleet was updated with F-16 avionics, ( including APG 66 radar ), allowing use of AIM-9L and AGM-65 Maverick missiles and laser-guided bombs.

The share price was set at 295p valuing the company at approximately £ 215 million, and raising £ 66 million for the company, half of which will go towards fleet expansion.

The current fleet consists of 66 vessels, including 34 commissioned vessels.

A large fleet of Class 66 has subsequently been acquired from Electro-Motive Diesel.

As of summer 2010, the 66 / 5 fleet had reached 98 examples, numbered 66501-520 / 522-599.

SIA is one of the world's largest operators of the Boeing 777 family, with 66 in its fleet.

In 2005 the SB20 became the second largest One-design fleet at the Cowes Week regatta with 66 entries.

It operated a fleet of Class 56 and Class 66 locomotives.

Guided missile destroyers ( DDG in the US Navy ) were developed to carry these weapons and protect the fleet from air, submarine and surface threats.

The U-boats were to surrender to Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt at Harwich, under the supervision of the Harwich Force, then the surface fleet was to sail to the Firth of Forth and surrender personally to Beatty.

Admiral Raeder was strongly opposed to Sea Lion since the almost entire Kriegsmarine surface fleet had been either sunk or badly damaged in Weserübung, and therefore his service was hopelessly outnumbered by the ships of the Royal Navy.

On " La Puntilla " in Old San Juan the Coast Guard base its small, but capable surface fleet of several long cutters and other patrol boats.

In the last several years, the PRC has made progress in modernizing its surface fleet with the purchase of Sovremenny class destroyers, as well as producing sophisticated domestic designs such as the Lanzhou class destroyers and.

It proposed a total surface escort fleet of 19 frigates and destroyers.

Externally, Columbia was the first orbiter in the fleet whose surface was mostly covered with High & Low Temperature Reusable Surface Insulation ( HRSI / LRSI ) tiles as its main thermal protection system ( TPS ), with white silicone rubber-painted Nomex — known as Felt Reusable Surface Insulation ( FRSI ) blankets — in some areas on the wings, fuselage and Payload Bay Doors.

This, however, removed the effectiveness of the U-boat fleet, and the Germans consequently sought a decisive surface action, a strategy which culminated in the Battle of Jutland.

At the end of World War I, as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles restricted the total tonnage of the German surface fleet.

Germany had the largest submarine fleet in World War II, since the Treaty of Versailles had limited the surface navy of Germany to six battleships ( of less than 10, 000 tons each ), six cruisers and 12 destroyers.

The presence of the German destroyer in the Atlantic Ocean is a likely inaccuracy, as most of the surface fleet of the Kriegsmarine never ventured that far west, and none did so from 1942 onwards.

Vostrikov orders the K-19 to surface so that he may contact fleet command to inform them of the accident and await orders.

The surface forces, moreover, are so weak and so few in numbers vis-à-vis the British fleet that the only course open to them-presupposing their active employment-is to show that they know how to die gallantly and thereby to create the basis for an eventual rebirth in the future ".

The western campaign, if successful, would provide Germany with the ore fields of north-eastern France, as well as a more favorable geographic position, without putting Germany's surface fleet at risk.

Weserübung, though successful, proved to be a costly operation for the Kriegsmarine with almost the entire German surface fleet either sunk or badly damaged.

Raeder argued strongly against Operation Sea Lion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain, as Weserübung had almost destroyed the German surface fleet.

There are also weapon systems based on the surface of planets occasionally, as in Stargate SG-1 where the hero uses an Ancient weapon in Antarctica to destroy the villain's invading fleet from the ground ; others are simpler, including ground based fighters, as in the case in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope where single-manned fighters defended a rebel base against a moon-sized Death Star.

Countries that were strategically dependent on surface fleet, most notably US and UK, maintained also fleet defense fighters that acted very similarly to their non-naval counterparts.

By 1916, after the Battle of Jutland, the Germans were forced to concede that the Imperial German Navy's surface fleet could not challenge the strength of the Royal Navy on the high seas, so great faith was placed in the U-Boat to strangle British supply lines in the Atlantic.

A failed attempt at satellite surveillance of the Martian surface, aborted military conferences and the sabotaged construction of a new space fleet hinder Spectrum's plans to return to Mars, and the organisation is unsuccessful on two occasions in apprehending Captain Black.

On April 3, Mitchell met with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt and a board of admirals to discuss aviation, and Mitchell urged the development of naval aviation because of the growing obsolescence of the surface fleet.

The fleet at the time comprised some 24 destroyers and frigates for surface warfare ( mainly in the Baltic Sea ) and anti-submarine warfare.

The main armament of the fleet was artillery and torpedoes for surface warfare and anti-submarine rockets for anti-submarine warfare.

After traveling up the River Stour, the fleet was met by Danish vessels that numbered 13 or 16 ( sources vary on the number ) and a battle ensued.

Their numbers were boosted by the addition to their fleet of two more ships, one of which was commanded by Stede Bonnet, but toward the end of 1717 Hornigold retired from piracy, taking two vessels with him.

Octavian's fleet was largely made up of smaller, fully manned Liburnian vessels, armed with better-trained, fresher crews.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers.

* 1637 – Eighty Years ' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.

At the end of 1999 the fleet of ferry vessels owned by the Transport and Harbors Department comprised nine motor vessels, six of which ranged in age from 15 to 55 years.

The lighter Ottoman vessels remained behind, but the battleship squadron moved on north under cover of the forts at Kumkale and engaged the Greek fleet, coming from Imbros, at 9: 40.

Cook was taken on as a merchant navy apprentice in their small fleet of vessels, plying coal along the English coast.

Wortham was responsible for fusing John's galleys, the ships of the Cinque Ports and pressed merchant vessels into a single operational fleet.

The fleet also includes 8 Lupo class frigates ( two built in Peru ), 6 PR-72P class corvettes, 4 Terrebonne Parish class landing ships, 2 Type 209 / 1100 and 4 Type 209 / 1200 class German-built diesel submarines ( the biggest submarine force in South America ), as well as patrol vessels, tankers and cargo ships.

Since this operation PLAN has sought the leadership of the ‘ Shared Awareness and Deconfliction ’ body ( SHADE ), which would require an increase in the number of vessels contributing to the anti-piracy fleet.

In 1655, he sailed into the Delaware River with a fleet of seven vessels and about 700 men and took possession of the colony of New Sweden, which was renamed " New Amstel.

The shipyard also contains a portion of the United States Navy reserve fleet, a large collection of inactive U. S. Navy vessels, including four aircraft carriers ; the USS Independence, the USS Constellation, the USS Ranger and the USS Kitty Hawk.

The U. S. Navy operated with a battle fleet of about 25 vessels.

Large vessels of the lake freighter fleet are built on the lakes and cannot travel downstream beyond the Welland Canal.

His fleet carried 30, 000 men aboard 70 vessels, with the goal of bringing glory to the Chinese emperor.

) The plan, originated by Tain, involved a fleet of cloaked Romulan and Cardassian vessels traversing into the heart of Dominion territory in the Gamma Quadrant where they would annihilate the homeworld of the Founders.

Learning that the fleet is losing the battle, the Enterprise crew disobeys orders and heads for Earth, where a single, damaged Borg Cube opposes a group of Starfleet vessels.

In 2371 the Romulan Tal Shiar intelligence agency and their Cardassian counterparts, the Obsidian Order, launched a preemptive strike against the Dominion ; their entire fleet of approximately 4 Warbirds and 12 Keldon class Cardassian vessels, however, was destroyed, and it was revealed that the Tal Shiar officer leading the attack was actually a Dominion agent.

The Romulans eventually emerged in the post-Smarba period with a powerful new fleet composed of " Kestral " ( Klingon-built vessels ) and " Hawk " ( hybrid ) series fleets, along with extensively retrofitted " Eagle " vessels.

By 1649, the East India Company ordered all homeward-bound vessels to wait for one another at St Helena and in 1656 onward the Company petitioned the government to send a man-of-war to convoy the fleet home from there.