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The Integrated Undersea Surveillance System breast insignia is a military badge of the United States Navy which was officially created by OPNAVINST 1020.5 on 24 December 1990. [1] The insignia is awarded to those personnel who have been trained and qualified in naval sonar and undersea surveillance technology. [1]
The current Sri Lankan Navy was established on 9 December 1950 when the Navy Act was passed for the formation of the Royal Ceylon Navy. The roots of the modern Sri Lankan Navy date back to 1937 when the Ceylon Naval Volunteer Force was established, which was renamed and absorbed into the Royal Navy as the Ceylon Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve ...
Philippine Navy AW109 during flight operations aboard the USS Green Bay. AW159 Wildcat helicopter of the Philippine Navy (PN) armed with K745 Blue Shark torpedos taken at the Philippine Fleet Defense Expo (PFDX) 2023. The Naval Air Wing has 33 naval air assets consisting of 25 manned aircraft and 8 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
The HL-20 Personnel Launch System was a NASA spaceplane concept for crewed orbital missions studied by NASA's Langley Research Center around 1990. It was envisaged as a lifting body re-entry vehicle similar to the Soviet BOR-4 spaceplane design. [ 1 ]
The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) is the maritime service branch of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) responsible for defending the country against any seaborne threats and as a guarantor of its sea lines of communications.
The majority of the bases of the Ukrainian Navy, [39] along with 12,000 of Ukraine's 15,450 Navy personnel were stationed in Crimea. [ citation needed ] On 24 March 2014, at least 12 of Ukraine's 17 ships in Sevastopol were seized by Russia, [ 40 ] [ 41 ] while the ensuing conflict saw two Ukrainian navy officers killed by Russian marines.
Established in 1959, the Marine nationale tunisienne (Tunisian National Navy) initially received French assistance, including advisory personnel and several small patrol vessels. [13] On 22 October 1973, the U.S. Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326) was decommissioned in ceremonies at the Quai d'Honneur, Bizerte.
A 1728 diagram illustrating a first- and a third-rate ship. The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the Royal Navy between the beginning of the 17th century and the middle of the 19th century to categorise sailing warships, initially classing them according to their assigned complement of men, and later according to the number of their carriage-mounted guns.