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 BB-61 Iowa Class
Battleships were tasked to conduct prompt and sustained combat operations at sea, worldwide, in support of national interests.
They were a new type for the Navy, the "fast battleship", intended to protect aircraft carriers against the threat of similar Japanese "big-gun" ships, as well as to form a "fast wing" for the traditional battle line.
Compared to the Iowa-class battleships, Yamato and Musashi were almost 20,000 tons larger at 76,000 tons, and carried 18.1-inch main batteries vice the 16-inch cannons used by the Iowa class.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/bb-61.htm   (925 words)

  
 Battleship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid-16th through the mid-20th centuries.
The Imperial Japanese Navy's Satsuma was the first battleship in the world to be designed and laid down as an all-big-gun battleship, although gun shortages only allowed her to be equipped with four of the twelve 12-in (305 mm) guns that had been planned.
Battleships still in existence as museums include the American USS Massachusetts, North Carolina, Alabama, New Jersey, and Texas, the British HMS Mary Rose, Warrior and Belfast, the Japanese Mikasa, the Swedish Vasa, the Dutch Buffel and Schorpioen, and the Chilean Huáscar.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battleship   (8020 words)

  
 Fw: Defence Review Submission. You may find it interesting
Martin Bryant was a one time aberration, a countries defence of its civilian population is its most important duty, it has to be prepared every day of the year to carry out that defence.
We have countries in our vicinity who have 1400 main battle tanks our 48 would be casualties within the first few hours.
It is not a wish to copy the latest Patents, but understanding how other international competitors solve basic functional necessities, to suit their particular model is money in the bank just knowing what they have not done is worth solid gold.
www.mail-archive.com /public-list@neither.org/msg01331.html   (3963 words)

  
 No War!
Hundreds of warplanes and battleships (including nuclear-armed submarines) and tens of thousands of troops readied for "sustained land combat operations" are being deployed in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, surrounding Afghanistan and threatening the entire region.
It is U.S. imperialism which organizes death squads in Colombia and is waging a counter-insurgency war against the people of that country, a war of which has already claimed the lives of more than 100,000 workers and peasants.
Various countries are refusing to give way to the pressure of imperialism and maintaining independent stands in defense of international law, the sovereignty of countries and peace amongst the peoples.
www.anti-imperialist.org /no_war.html   (1085 words)

  
 Gulf War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This, corresponding with other facts, leaks and rumors, is seen by many as an indicator of substantial CIA involvement during the era.
He argued that the American-supported country was an illegitimate guardian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
The battleship USS Wisconsin was one of many naval vessels deployed for Operation Desert Shield, and marked one of the few post-World War II times that battleships participated in actual combat operations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Gulf_War   (8914 words)

  
 Battleship Variations
This variant is identical to Classic (Standard) Battleships, with the additional proviso that all of the remaining cells not used by the fleet can be traversed by a single, closed loop (connecting cells horizontally or vertically).
As with many PQRST puzzles, Moving Battleships (without tallies) is harder to solve because of the large number of possible ship placements and the lack of tallies.
All other cells (other than the ones that pieces are on) of the board must be attacked at least by one chess piece.
www.mountainvistasoft.com /variations.htm   (3658 words)

  
 World Battleships List: Other Nations' Dreadnoughts
During WWI many battleships being built in England for other countries were taken over for the Royal Navy.
Battleship IX Would have been built by Danubius.
Conversion started, but industrial problems stopped work from 11/1918 to 3/1919, then work was suspended in 10/1919 and she was nearly converted back to a battleship for resale to Chile.
www.hazegray.org /navhist/battleships/othr_dr.htm   (1796 words)

  
 21st CENTURY BATTLESHIPS (BBG-21s)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Battleships are designed to survive 15" and 16" shells, which are literally 1000 to 2000 pound penetrating warheads, and many better ships also have excellent torpedo belts.
Battleships are the only vessels that could actually survive the kinds of threats that are likely to appear in littoral areas once they get within gun range of their targets.
With no battleships available the USN was forced to shift their emphasis to the aircraft carrier as the center of a striking force, though they still continued to build a new generation of battleships.
www.combatreform.com /battleships.htm   (16534 words)

  
 Lawyers, Guns and Money
In other Canadian news, I've forgotten to mention the pleasing upset victory of Stephane Dion in the Liberal leadership race; not only was he probably the best candidate on the merits (particularly since on civil liberties Ignatieff makes Alberto Gonzales sound like Nadine Strossen), but it gives hope to academics everywhere.
Three other battleships were sunk and four damaged (USS Colorado and the three carriers were away from Pearl) during the attack, and 2403 Americans died.
The champion of Pearl Harbor rhetoric, though, is none other than the man who spent the healthiest and most vulnerable years of his life defending the airspace of Texas from the predations of the North Vietnamese.
lefarkins.blogspot.com   (7474 words)

  
 List of Ship Kits
Other people have since contributed to it, and it is now being maintained by Joseph Poutre (joseph.poutre@verizon.net) Comments, additions, and corrections should be sent to him.
Other than the vehicle ramps, reminiscent of Ro-Ro transports, on either side forward of the bridge, and right aft, could be a typical small cruise liner.
Among other details missing are a catwalk on the aft side of the second funnel, a boom type crane for boats opposite the oil derrick, and the yardarms for the second funnel are too fragile and should be replaced.
www.quuxuum.org /rajens_list/shiprevs.html   (13939 words)

  
 Uncovering Bush Plan for Regime Change in Cuba - Printer Friendly
By preventing other countries from trading with Cuba, the US government hopes to make it impossible for the nation to provide for the needs of its citizens.
Top on the list were the creation of a new government in Cuba that does not include Fidel or Raul Castro and proof that this new government was "substantially moving towards a market-oriented economic system based on the right to own and enjoy property".
The island is blockaded, not by US battleships and destroyers, but by a collection of laws and presidential mandates that fly in the face of international law, limiting the free movement of trade and the economic sovereignty of Cuba and those who would do business with them.
www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/cuba/2677.html.pf   (1645 words)

  
 FAS Email Archives -- Missile Defense Monitor
Peppas has called upon all countries, showing anxiety over the strengthening of the Cyprian defensive potential, to recall President Glafkos Kloridis's earlier-advanced proposal on the complete demilitarisation of the island.
Referring to the danger of the violation of the military balance on the island, Ankara, according to the Turkish press, plans to strengthen there its military presence and even, possibly, to resort to a military operation for destroying the missiles after they are delivered to Cyprus.
Of course the actions of the USA, Turkey and other Western countries - Russia's rivals - have caused a quite understandable and legitimate critical reaction in the governmental, public and political quarters in Russia itself.
www.fas.org /MHonArc/BMDList_archive/msg00011.html   (3724 words)

  
 Subject Listing for Education and research - project web site
Additional studies are needed to assess the uncertainties in retrieved shapes due to temporal and spatial mismatches, anisotropic and bright background reflectances, and calibration errors and to validate the retrieved shapes.
This web site has grown from a network security consulting project into a list of terrorist organisations who make use of the internet (or at least have an internet presence) and ultimately includes freedom fighters on the side of good, and quasi-national groups as well as the military professionals and aid organisations of the title.
Although gamma ray bursts are the largest known explosions in the Universe, outshining the rest of the Universe when they explode unpredictably in distant galaxies, their underlying nature and the cause of the explosion are true mysteries of astrophysics.
aerade.cranfield.ac.uk /subject-listing/edres2.html   (14877 words)

  
 Lemelson Center: Archives: George H. Clark "Radioana" Collection
Also enclosed are a good number of photographs; copies of bulletins and magazines; telegraphic messages; price lists; reprints from journals and books; catalogues; data sheets; technical bulletins; correspondence; affidavits; pamphlets; charts; testimonies; and directions.
There is a good bibliography on coil aerials and other directional aerials; lists of publications relating to loop antennas; copies of loop patents; portions of bulletins, books, magazines and newspapers; blueprints; pamphlets; reprints from journals; reports; testimonies; photographs; papers; memoranda; instructions; service notes; results of experiments; notes; specifications; diagrams; and correspondence.
Included are abstracts; articles; correspondence; data regarding wireless terminology; glossary of terms published in the yearbooks of 1913 - 1915; list of radio terms and classification numbers; news clippings; notes; reports of committees on standardization, the Institute of Radio Engineers, for 1913, 1915, 1922, 1926, 1927, and 1928; standardization rules; and technical information booklets.
invention.smithsonian.org /resources/fa_clark_list_051_100.aspx   (2000 words)

  
 BrothersJudd Blog
But others say it is in fact fueled by a greater sense of self-confidence, the result of a surging economy and an increased sense of its own growing strategic importance, which may dampen the effects of any rupture with the EU.
Once the country's most downtrodden, entrenched in feudal misery, Lebanon's Shiites stand today on the verge of their greatest political power in the history of a diverse country defined by its fractious religious communities: Sunni and Shiite Muslims, Druze and Christians.
The first, that we laugh at other because we feel superior to them, flies in the face of the Rousseauvian conceit that Man is essentially good and that we are all equal to, if not basically the same as, one another.
www.brothersjudd.com /blog   (10643 words)

  
 ARRLWeb: ARRL Home Page
Two other more recently filed petitions--one from No Code International and another from two amateur licensees--are expected to be put on public notice in the near future.
She promised to post a list of contributing clubs on the ARRL Web site this fall "as our way of saying thank you." More information on BPL is available on the ARRL Web site, including a video--available for downloading and showing at club meetings--that graphically demonstrates the interference radio amateurs would experience from BPL.
To join the list, send a message to majordomo@alum.wpi.edu with the words "subscribe mars-net" in the body of the message.
www.arrl.org /?news_list_off=3300   (1451 words)

  
 USA, Countries, Museums, Visual Arts, Performing Arts at World Wide Arts Resources
For over thirty years, Battleship Massachusetts has opened her hatches to visitors of all ages.
Battleship New Jersey Historical Museum Society Home Page Battleship New Jersey Historical Museum Society The History of the USS New Jersey and the Battleship New Jersey Historical Museum Society The battleship New Jersey is not just another World War II...
The Burke Museum, located on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, is the State museum of natural and cultural history, and the only major natural history museum in the Northwest.
wwar.com /categories/Museums/Countries/USA/index2.html   (862 words)

  
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So the driver tells the other two vehicles and they form up in a horizontal line and hit the gas.
A British fighter pilot became the youngest person ever to be awarded the George Cross when he rescued his companion when their plane was shot down by the Americans.
I don't want to fight over this to prove it, I just sat down in a resterant I'm a regular at and saw some marines sitting off to the side and I thanked them for serving and was invited to join them and that's how I herd it.
www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/30-19655.asp   (2828 words)

  
 Off the Script
After all, a mere 8-plus months in the pit of Iraq and they've left in the dust a proud prewar era in which there was a single party line, enforced throughout the government.
Energy flows, well, they're a country by country matter to be reported, if at all, on business pages.
Similarly, except on the odd op-ed page or in the odd column (such as this striking example from James Carroll of the Boston Globe), the idea that our wars might be driven by war profits and the complex corporate system that goes with them exists nowhere in the mainstream.
www.motherjones.com /news/dailymojo/2003/12/12_518.html   (3863 words)

  
 ZV (Miscellaneous) Files Navy Department Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This series of files is comprised of 5.5 linear feet of material, and is a subject file for documentation not categorized under other file series.
Among the contents are: (1) official Office of Naval Records and Library, and Naval History Division correspondence and reports; (2) manuscripts; (3) copies of material found in other depositories; (4) newspaper and magazine articles; (5) cross-reference sheets to records in Record Group 45 and 80 at the National Archives.
Z File materials are unavailable for loan and must be consulted in the library.
www.history.navy.mil /library/guides/zvfilelist.html   (646 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Information for these lists was culled from Satoshi Amagai, ANIMAG #9 (pages 6-21), ANIMERICA #5 (page 10, by Larry Greenfield), Steven Feldman, Atsushi Fukumoto, MAJO NO TAKKYUBIN GUIDEBOOK (translated by Atsushi Fukumoto), Waichi Ogura, Anime Hasshin's THE ROSE #21 (pages 8-11, by John Ott), and Tetsu Tatsumi; and edited by Steven Feldman.
On the other side of the coin, Miyazaki produced Takahata's THE STORY OF YANAKAWA CANAL and OMOIDE POROPORO.
The others are all good, too (well, I don't have "Dr. Watson" or "Moriarity Unleashed" yet, but the others are all good).
www.tcp.com /~miyazaki/file-archive/miyazaki.filmlist.old   (4308 words)

  
 Coastal Computers, Inc. - Preserved US Military Aircraft
This list of US military aircraft preserved and displayed was originally compiled by Ben Marselis with input from many others.
I will try to keep the various lists in as much logical and chronological order as possible, but you may have to look in several to get what you want.
Allan Barley has a UK Survivors List which I am listing here until I can enter the updates.
www.coastcomp.com /av/pres   (1292 words)

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