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Parent topics
- Anti-submarine warfare [r]: (ASW) In the context of naval warfare, the mission of attacking underwater vessels, from platforms under naval command and control. [e]
- Anti-surface warfare [r]: (ASuW) In the context of naval warfare, the mission of attacking surface vessels, from small boats to supertankers and aircraft carriers, from platforms under naval command and control [e]
Subtopics
Propulsion
- Air-independent propulsion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cavitation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Diesel-electric [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pump-jet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Snorkel [r]: Add brief definition or description
Sensors and navigation
- Periscope [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sonar [r]: A contraction of sound navigation and ranging, formally includes the active mode in which a pulse goes out and a receiver measures the echo. Also includes hydrophones or passive, listen-only systems. [e]
Weapons
- Anti-shipping missile [r]: An air, surface (sea or land), or submarine-launched missile that can track and intercept a maneuvering ship target against the background of moving water [e]
- AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: A U.S. developed anti-shipping missile that can be launched from aircraft, ships and submarines [e]
- Exocet [r]: An aging French anti-shipping missile, which can be fired from land, aircraft, helicopter, submarine and ship platforms, and which has a considerable combat record [e]
- P-700 Granit [r]: A Soviet-designed cruise missile, with the NATO reporting designation SS-N-19 SHIPWRECK, launched from ships and submarines, typically against ship targets [e]
- Cruise missile [r]: A guided missile that uses aerodynamic forces, as well as active jet or rocket propulsion, to stay airborne and to adjust its course. [e]
- BGM-109 Tomahawk [r]: A U.S.-designed cruise missile, launched from vertical launch systems on ships and submarines, against land targets [e]
- Submarine-launched ballistic missile [r]: A ballistic missile launched from a normally submerged submarine, which has multiple engineering challenges, chief among them being computing a correct ballistic trajectory from a varying point of launch (POL) [e]
- UGM-27 Polaris [r]: The first operational submarine-launched ballistic missile, of medium to intermediate range [e]
- UGM-73 Poseidon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UGM-96 Trident [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UGM-133 Trident II [r]: Add brief definition or description
Tactics
Classes
Germany
- Type 209-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Type 212-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Type 800-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
Israel
- Dolphin-class [r]: The latest submarine class in the Israeli Defense Forces, a variant of the German Type 800-class [e]
- Gal-class [r]: Israeli Defense Forces submarine, built in Britain using the German Type 209-class design [e]
Russia/Soviet
United Kingdom
- Conqueror-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vanguard-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Astute-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
United States
- Sturgeon-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Los Angeles-class [r]: The primary class of attack submarines in the United States Navy, built in three groups of which early models are being retired; to be replaced by the Virginia-class [e]
- Improved Los Angeles-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Seawolf-class [r]: A class of advanced attack submarines of the United States Navy, optimized for Cold War requirements as a replacement for the Los Angeles-class; production capped and replacement shifted to the Virginia-class [e]
- Virginia-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
