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Parent topics
- Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Antisubmarine warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- C3I-ISR [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Littoral warfare [r]: Air, sea, subsurface, and land warfare that takes place in waters near a coast, or on coastal land areas. [e]
- Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
Subtopics
Variants
- EP-3 Aries II [r]: Signals intelligence variant of P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft; slower than Air Force RC-135 comparable aircraft [e]
Weapons
- 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]
- Mark 46 torpedo [r]: Lightweight antisubmarine torpedo, primarily air-dropped but also ship-launched for close-in defense [e]
- Mark 50 torpedo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-shipping missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Air-to-surface missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
Sensors
- 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]
- Sonobuoy [r]: Air-dropped, expendable sensors for anti-submarine warfare [e]
Notable crew
- Tom Carper [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Delaware), Deputy Whip, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; the Environment and Public Works; Finance Committee; co-chair, Moderate Dems Working Group; honorary President, Third Way; former United States Navy P-3 Orion pilot [e]
- Shane Osborn [r]: United States Navy pilot of EP-3 Aries II signals intelligence aircraft in a mid-air collision with a Chinese fighter; landed the damaged aircraft successfully [e]