A Navy is the branch of a country's military forces principally designated for naval warfare, namely maritime or ocean-borne combat operations and other functions. It includes operations conducted by surface vessels (ships), submarine vessels, and seaborne aviation, as well as ancillary support, communications, training, and other fields; recent developments have included space-related operations. A country, a land, or a state, is a geographical area that connotes an independent political entity, with its own government, administration, laws, often a constitution, police, military, tax rules, and population, who are one anothers countrymen. ... Naval warfare is combat in and on seas and oceans. ... Sunset at sea A sea is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. ... Ocean (from Okeanos, a Greek god of sea and water; Greek ωκεανός) covers almost three quarters (71%) of the surface of the Earth. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For online phenomenon of shipping, see Shipping (fandom). ... USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ... An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircraft. ... For other meanings of the term space, see space. ...

History

Naval warfare first developed whenever humankind conducted fighting from water-borne vessels. By the late 20th century, naval power had seen a great and varied evolution through history, and remains today a major element in the military and strategic security power of a a country's power projection capabilities, though some would suggest its importance has declined in the wake of the development of military aviation and air power. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Power projection is a term used in military and political science (specifically international relations) circles, referring to the ability of a state to implement policy by means of force, or the threat thereof. ... Aviation or Air transport refers to the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ... Aerial warfare is the use of aircraft and other flying machines for the purposes of warfare. ...

See also

• List of navies
• Modern naval tactics
• Naval history
• Naval warfare
• Fleet

This is a list of navies, present and historical: Argentine Navy Australia: Royal Australian Navy Bangladesh Navy Brazilian Navy Canada: Royal Canadian Navy China: Peoples Liberation Army Navy Denmark: Royal Danish Navy Finnish Navy French Navy German Navy Indian Navy (formerly Royal Indian Navy) Ireland: Irish Naval Service Italy... Modern Naval Tactics It is tempting to regard modern naval combat as the purest expression of tactics. ... Naval warfare is combat in and on seas and oceans. ... Naval warfare is combat in and on seas and oceans. ... Fleet can refer to several things: Two or more motor vehicles owned by a company A group of ships: Fishing fleet Naval fleet, such as US 1st Fleet also known as the US Coast Guard US 2nd Fleet US 3rd Fleet US 5th Fleet US 6th Fleet US 7th Fleet...

Other meanings

• The nickname of the United States Naval Academy in the intercollegiate athletics and academic context
• The colour navy blue.
• "Naval" is occasionally a misspelling of navel.

Teamwork: Fourth Class Midshipmen lock arms and use ropes made from uniform items as they brace themselves climbing the Herndon Monument The United States Naval Academy (USNA) is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... A sport consists of a physical activity or skill carried out with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... Navy blue is an especially dark shade of blue. ... For the plant of this name, see Umbilicus rupestris. ...

Types of naval vessel

• Aircraft carrier
• Amphibious assault ship
• Battlecruiser
• Battleship
• Bireme
• Bomb ketch
• Corvette
• Cruiser
• Destroyer
• Dromon
• Escort aircraft carrier
• Frigate
• Gunboat
• Hospital ship
• Ironclad
• Liburnian
• Longship
• PT Boat
• Quinquireme
• Seaplane tender
• Ship of the line
• Sloop-of-war
• Submarine (also U-boat)
• Submarine chaser
• Survey ship
• Trireme
• Xebec (Chebek/Shebec/Zebec)

For a list of the prefixes used with ship names (HMS, USS, &c.) see ship prefix. An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircraft. ... Amphibious assault ships, usually shortened to amphibs, phibs or popularly known as gator freighters, denotes a range of classes of warship employed to land and support ground forces on enemy territory by an amphibious assault. ... HMS Invincible, one of Britains first battlecruisers Battlecruisers (short for battleship-cruisers) were large warships of the early 20th century. ... This article is about a battleship as a type of warship. ... A French galley and Dutch men_of_war off a port by Abraham Willaerts, painted 17th century. ... A bomb ketch was a type of wooden sailing ship with two masts. ... For the automobile, see Chevrolet Corvette. ... The USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ... This article is about the warship. ... A Byzantine fresco showing a dromon The Dromons (from Greek runner) were the most important warships of the Byzantine navy. ... The escort aircraft carrier or escort carrier, was a small aircraft carrier developed by the U.S. Navy in the early part of World War II to deal with the U-boat crisis of the Battle of the Atlantic. ... Sailing frigates were 4th, 5th, or 6th-rated ships in the rating system of the Royal Navy. ... A gunboat is literally a boat carrying one or more guns. ... A hospital ship is a floating hospital installed aboard a large ocean-going ship. ... Ironclad warships, frequently shortened to just ironclads, were ships sheathed with thick iron plates for protection. ... A liburnian was a galley, a warship propelled by oars. ... The Oseberg longship (Viking Ship Museum, Norway) A photograph of a Longship taken from the side A longship tacking in the wind Longships, langskip or drakkar were boats used by the Scandinavians and Saxons for mostly military purposes. ... PT boats in line A PT boat was a motor torpedo boat (hull classification symbol PT), a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. ... A quinquireme was a galley, a warship propelled by oars, developed from the earlier trireme. ... A seaplane tender (or seaplane carrier) is a ship which provides the facililites necessary for operating seaplanes. ... Ships of the line were 1st, 2nd, or 3rd-rated ships in the rating system of the Royal Navy. ... USS Constellation, a United States Navy sloop-of-war. ... USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ... U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ... A submarine chaser is a small and fast naval vessel specially intended for anti-submarine warfare. ... A survey ship is a vessel designed to conduct hydrographic and oceanographic research. ... A Greek trireme A Roman trireme Triremes were ancient war galleys with three rows of oars on each side. ... A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship. ...

External links

• NOSI (Naval Open Source Intelligence) - a digital library of world naval operational news, curated from open source intelligence, and intended to serve as a source of continuing education on naval and military affairs (http://www.nosi.org)
• Naval & Maritime page (http://vlnavmar.usnaweb.org/) of the World Wide Web Virtual Library (http://www.vlib.org/)