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...re generally not capable of long-range steaming or being seaworthy in the "blue water" deep ocean; they were coastal craft. ...the words of a requirement restated a century later, "Self-deployability (blue water endurance) is needed to allow the platforms to get to the contested area wi

During the Cold War, the focus of naval operations was "blue water" far from land. In today's geopolitical environment, "green water" of coast ...ittoral, which vary much more than in the deep open ocean. For example, in blue water, the bottom may be so deep so that it is out of sonar range and will give n

...submarine. With the end of the Cold War and the disappearance of a major "blue water" threat from Soviet submarines designed as carrier killers, U.S. naval avia

...lass, which have greater speed, but less internal space, and optimized for blue water, principally antisubmarine, missions. They used the [[WLQ-4|AN/WLQ-4]] "Sea

* Muir, Malcolm, Jr. ''Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the United States Navy, 1945-1975.'' (1996). 348pp

...ced ship, or at least a small formation, has gone in and out of style. For blue water operations, however, aircraft and satellites can survey far more area than