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Parent topics
- Combat search and rescue [r]: Add brief definition or description}
- Search and rescue [r]: The location of those in distress from natural, accidental, or hostile causes; on-scene medical stabilization and extrication; evacuation to treatment or other safe facilities [e]
Subtopics
- Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. [e]
- Mine (naval warfare) [r]: A naval explosive weapon that waits passively for a target to come into its range, and then detonates or releases a mobile weapon once its sensors detect an appropriate target [e]
- 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]
Incidents
- USS Oriskany (CV-34) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- USS Nimitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-shipping missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]
- Explosives [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Firefighting [r]: The act of extinguishing dangerous fires. [e]
- Precision-guided munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]
- Radio [r]: Transmission and reception of information, which can be voice, data or imagery over electromagnetic radiation in free space (i.e., wireless). The information is modulated onto a carrier wave [e]
- Safety of Life at Sea [r]: International convention defining safety requirements for ships [e]
- Satellite orbits [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Search and rescue transponder [r]: A device used by personnel in need of rescue, which assists in the final part of the search by interacting with search radar and guiding the rescuers to the victim [e]