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Revision as of 12:54, 11 November 2009
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Parent topics
- Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Antisubmarine warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- C3I-ISR [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Littoral warfare [r]: Air, sea, subsurface, and land warfare that takes place in waters near a coast, or on coastal land areas. [e]
- Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
Subtopics
Variants
- EP-3 Aries II [r]: Signals intelligence variant of P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft; slower than Air Force RC-135 comparable aircraft [e]
Weapons
- 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]
- Mark 46 torpedo [r]: Lightweight antisubmarine torpedo, primarily air-dropped but also ship-launched for close-in defense [e]
- Mark 50 torpedo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-shipping missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Air-to-surface missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
Avionics
- Radar [r]: Acronym for "radio detection and ranging"; a system used to locate a distant object by transmission of radio waves and reception of their reflection. [e]
- Sonobuoy [r]: Air-dropped, expendable sensors for anti-submarine warfare [e]
- Electronic warfare [r]: A subset of information operations that deals with the use of electromagnetic or kinetic means to degrade an enemy's military electronics systems, to be able to operate one's own electronics in the face of enemy attacks, and to evade those attacks through protection or deception [e]
Notable crew
- Tom Carper [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Delaware), Deputy Whip, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; the Environment and Public Works; Finance Committee; co-chair, Moderate Dems Working Group; honorary President, Third Way; former United States Navy P-3 Orion pilot [e]
- Shane Osborn [r]: United States Navy pilot of EP-3 Aries II signals intelligence aircraft in a mid-air collision with a Chinese fighter; landed the damaged aircraft successfully [e]
- Richard Gurnon [r]: Add brief definition or description