umbrella- a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets; "an air umbrella over England" logistic assessment- a judgment of the logistic support required for some particular military operation drill- (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades)...
swiftly moving vessel equipped with huge, powerful, and extremely accurate long-range guns. The battleship reigned on thehigh seasuntilWorld War II, when the Japanese attack on U.S. naval forces atPearl Harbordefinitively established that aircraft-carrier–launched bomber planes could sink any and...
(46-cm)torpedo, was embarked on HMSArgus. The war ended before the squadron could go into action, but the RNAS had already used torpedoes dropped from Short seaplanes to sink enemy ships in the Mediterranean, and the Cuckoo, with its modest top speed of 103 miles (166 km) per hour ...
The AN-70 is a new generation, medium-range Short Take-Off and Landing (STOL) military transport aircraft developed by Antonov. The aircraft can transport any air-portable military and engineering vehicles currently operational with armies worldwide. It has a maximum take-off weight of 130t and...
During the history of early study on this technology, many prototype planes only flew in both vertical and horizontal modes, but the transition between the two was never achieved [26,27]. This situation lasted until the 1950s [28,29], when the Ryan X-13 Vertijet executed the transitions ...
A torpedo bomber is a bomber aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with aerial torpedoes, but which could usually also carry out conventional attacks using bombs. Torpedo bombers came into existence just before the First World War almost as soon as
USS Yarnall (DD-541), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant John Yarnall (1786–1815). Yarnall was laid down on 5 December 1942 at San Francisco, Calif., by the Bethlehem Steel Co.; launched
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The C-130 Hercule returns in a new doomsday role. If nuclear war breaks out, this will be the most important aircraft in the sky.
Development of the airlifter depends heavily on the Army's "tactical and operational maneuver" plans. Two different cargo planes could still be created to separately perform tactical and strategic missions, but which course to pursue is to be decided before C-17s need to be retired.[29] ...