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Parent topics
- Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense [e]
Subtopics
- Torpedo [r]: A naval weapon that travels underwater, using its own propulsion, to attack its target, minimally with onboard mechanisms to keep it on a straight course. Modern torpedoes are underwater guided missiles that can track their target and adjust their course to hit it [e]
- Reconnaissance [r]: Gathering information by physical observation or remote viewing with sensors. [e]
- Commerce raiding [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Destroyer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Honor Harrington [r]: The central character in an extensive science fiction series created by David Weber, with considerable personality resemblances, although far higher technology, to Horatio Hornblower [e]
- Warship [r]: A ship designed to employ weapons and sensors in direct naval warfare [e]
- Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense [e]
- Carrier Strike Group [r]: In the United States Navy, the group of ships centered around a large aircraft carrier [e]
- USS Enterprise (CVN-65) [r]: First nuclear-propelled aircraft carrier of the United States Navy [e]
- Sea glass [r]: Formed when broken pieces of glass from bottles, tableware, and other items that have been lost or discarded are worn down and rounded by tumbling in the waves along the shores of oceans and large lakes. [e]