Thus, the three main categories of antisubmarine warfare operations are defense of shipping, defense of naval forces, and area defense.

The 1st Naval District is located at the country's main naval base in Rio de Janeiro ; the 2nd Naval District is in Salvador ; the 3rd Naval District is located in Natal ; the 4th Naval District is located in Belém ; and the 5th Naval District is located in Porto Alegre.

U. S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.

Some short-range naval guns use cased ammunition, but many battleship and cruiser main guns use a shell and separate bagged powder measures, which are selected according to the desired ballistic path.

The United States naval port of Pearl Harbor, located on the south coast of the main Hawaiian island of Oahu, is one of a complex of sea inlets.

Béjaïa becomes one of the main naval bases of the dynasty.

The classical definition of naval survivability includes three main aspects which are susceptibility, vulnerability, and recoverability, although recoverability is often subsumed within vulnerability.

As king, Edward's main interests lay in the fields of foreign affairs and naval and military matters.

This was later to be said to be one of the main turning points in the naval arms race between Germany and Britain that contributed to the outbreak of World War I.

Russia ’ s main Pacific port and naval base of Vladivostok, once closed to foreigners, bristles with Chinese markets, restaurants and trade houses.

Raeder's traditional Anglophobia, which always led him to view Britain as the main enemy and together the chance for increased naval building represented by the anti-British turn made Raeder into one of the strongest supporters of the anti-British foreign policy.

It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base.

Research on solvent-free Cordite RDB continued primarily on the addition of stabilizers, which led to the type commonly used in World War II as the main naval propellant.

: The ancient haven was " repaired " by King Eärnil I, and it became the main naval base during the Ship-kings ' conquests.

It is home to the country's main naval base.

During the Second World War, Germany established a submarine naval base at La Pallice ( the main port of La Rochelle ).

Historically, the main British naval bases were located near the English Channel to better face England's old enemies, France, Spain, and the Netherlands.

Primarily because of its great distance from German airfields, Scapa Flow was again selected as the main British naval base during World War II.

In March 1937, the then Director of Operations Group Captain Robert Saundby, complained that the role for Coastal Command in war, namely supporting the bomber offensive, and second, the support of naval forces along the British coastline, were too limited and was in danger of diverting the Command from its main concern ; ASW.

Japanese naval forces soon seized American, Dutch and British possessions across the Pacific and Southeast Asia, except for Australia, which became a main American forward base along with Hawaii.

Duxford houses the museum's large exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibitions buildings.

While commanding the First Air Fleet, Nagumo oversaw the effective attack on Pearl Harbor, but he was later criticized for his failure to launch a third attack, which might have destroyed the fuel oil storage and repair facilities which would have rendered the most important American naval base in the Pacific useless, and the submarine base and intelligence station which were the main factors in Japan's defeat.

The main naval base is at Den Helder, Noord Holland.

The naval associations are strengthened by the fact that oak was the main construction material for sailing warships.

If one takes the middle number, 5, and multiplies it by 3 ( the base number of the magic square of three ), the result is 15, which is also the constant sum of all the rows, columns, and two main diagonals.

The flowers are in the main not particularly distinctive, being of a general ' lily type ', with six tepals, either free or fused from the base.

In 2010, the main macro deficiencies of the Armenian economy — namely, unsustainable growth drivers, a narrow and resource-dominated export base, and overdependence on private transfers — were still prevalent.

This included a BCD ( Binary Coded Decimal ) based arithmetic unit, storing and addressing the main memory using base 10 numbering instead of binary.

The tower is made up of three sections: a 30. 5 m ( 100 ft ) high tower base forming the main entrance and public circulation spaces ; a 235. 4 m ( 772 ft ) tall tower body containing 57 office floors, a sky lobby and five mechanical plant floors ; and the tower top consist of six mechanical plant floors and a 102 m ( 335 ft ) tall tower mast.

The controllers are a joystick without a base ; the main body is a large hand grip with a triangular " cap " on top, the top being the portion that actually moved for eight-way directional control.

Sign outside the Ministry of Defense main base in Djibouti.

Navy headquarters and the main operational and training base are located at Ras el Tin near Alexandria.

During the Thirty Years ' War, the Vistula Lagoon was the main southern Baltic base of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, who was hailed as the protector of the Protestants.

As the trigger ( often actually a lever ) was pulled, the match was brought into the open end of a " touch hole " at the base of the gun barrel, which contained a very small quantity of gunpowder, igniting the main charge of gunpowder in the gun barrel.

The Ghana Air Force is headquartered in Burma camp Accra, and operates from bases in Accra ( main transport base ), Tamale ( combat and training base ), Takoradi ( training base ), and Kumasi ( support base ).

* 1497-Gibraltar became the main base in the conquest of Melilla by the troops of the Duke of Medina Sidonia.

The Kingdom of Asturias became the main base for Christian resistance to Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula for several centuries.

For many years, granite and volcanic rocks have been quarried locally for road base metal, riprap, armour stone and asphalt, although the main purpose now is for concrete aggregates.

Scotland's Scapa Flow was the main base for the Royal Navy in the 20th century.

This move was of major strategic importance, as it provided the Greeks with a forward base in close distance to the Dardanelles, the Ottoman fleet's main anchorage and refuge.

Jamaica became a base of operations for privateers, including Captain Henry Morgan, operating from the main English settlement Port Royal.

The main purpose of the military personnel is to operate a LORAN-C base.

The United Kingdom supposedly conducted its first successful hydrogen bomb test at Malden Island on 15 May 1957 ; Christmas Island was the operation's main base.

The main constituent of such lubricant product is called the base oil, base stock.