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  • Thumbnail for Sea Fighter (FSF-1)
    Smaller water craft can be carried and launched from its stern. The vessel is being developed under the program title Littoral Surface Craft-Experimental...
    13 KB (1,376 words) - 21:55, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lun-class ekranoplan
    Organization due to their use of the ground effect, in which the craft glides just above the surface of the water. The ground effect occurs when flying at an...
    19 KB (1,523 words) - 07:44, 19 November 2024
  • (CCB) Combatant Craft Assault (CCA) Combatant Craft Medium (CCM) Combatant Craft Heavy (CCH) Swimmer Delivery Vehicle (Mk 8) Surface-Planing Wet Submersible...
    10 KB (697 words) - 18:56, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mark V Special Operations Craft
    any specifically conceived SEAL insertion craft. Prior to the Mk V SOC, SEALs traveled on any form of surface transport available, often resorting to taping...
    18 KB (2,062 words) - 10:12, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ground-effect vehicle
    ground-effect craft, wingship, flarecraft or ekranoplan (Russian: экранопла́н – "screenglider"), is a vehicle that is able to move over the surface by gaining...
    44 KB (4,859 words) - 06:51, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mark 38 25 mm machine gun system
    to protect warships primarily from a variety of surface threats, especially small, fast surface craft. It consists of an M242 Bushmaster chain gun mounted...
    26 KB (2,067 words) - 09:44, 11 October 2024
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    Watercraft (redirect from Water craft)
    into surface vessels, which include ships, yachts, boats, hydroplanes, wingships, unmanned surface vehicles, sailboards and human-powered craft such as...
    7 KB (769 words) - 08:49, 23 August 2024
  • before the First World War and had existed as a command for all German surface craft during the inter-war years of the 1930s. By the outbreak of World War...
    12 KB (1,355 words) - 17:30, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Combatant Craft Medium
    United States Naval Special Warfare Command as a multi-mission surface tactical mobility craft built by Vigor Industrial "to provide small-caliber gunfire...
    6 KB (435 words) - 17:37, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Craft beer
    Craft beer is beer manufactured by craft breweries, which typically produce smaller amounts of beer than larger "macro" breweries and are often independently...
    84 KB (8,157 words) - 08:38, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pillar Point Air Force Station
    were installed for defensive measures. In June 1944, a short-range UHF Surface Craft Detection Radar System, model SCR-296, built by Western Electric Company...
    5 KB (640 words) - 08:12, 11 February 2024
  • board or on the ground. Air navigation differs from the navigation of surface craft in several ways; Aircraft travel at relatively high speeds, leaving...
    21 KB (3,057 words) - 18:16, 27 September 2024
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    X-class submarine (redirect from X craft)
    14 days in the craft or 1,000 nmi (1,900 km), after suitable training. Actual range of the X-Craft itself was 600 nmi (1,100 km) surfaced and 80 nmi (150 km)...
    22 KB (2,421 words) - 21:23, 18 August 2024
  • of agents and use by special forces. These derived from high-speed surface craft, sometimes disguised as fishing vessels. The I-SILC model was the first...
    13 KB (1,475 words) - 06:11, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
    gun systems, one on each side of the ship, designed to counter fast surface craft. There are numerous mounts for crew-served weapons like the M2 Browning...
    138 KB (12,035 words) - 00:04, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Landing craft mechanized
    The landing craft mechanized (LCM) is a landing craft designed for carrying vehicles. They came to prominence during the Second World War when they were...
    11 KB (1,180 words) - 10:47, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Special Operations Craft – Riverine
    Special Operations Craft – Riverine is a boat used by the United States Navy to perform short-range insertion and extraction of special operations forces...
    7 KB (320 words) - 13:02, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Landing Craft Utility
    A Landing Craft Utility (LCU) is a type of boat used by amphibious forces to transport equipment and troops to the shore. They are capable of transporting...
    35 KB (2,173 words) - 23:20, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Point of sail
    point of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface. The principal points of sail...
    20 KB (2,566 words) - 03:27, 5 July 2024
  • engage space, air, surface, and submerged targets with weapons deployed from the ship itself, rather than by crewed carried craft. Surface ships include cruisers...
    5 KB (642 words) - 04:33, 18 August 2024
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