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From the late 1920s, the Imperial Japanese Navy had developed a doctrine of operating floatplanes from submarines to search for targets. [2] In December 1941, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, proposed constructing a large fleet of submarine aircraft carriers (also designated STo or sen-toku — special submarine) whose purpose was to mount aerial ...
A new version, the F4F-4, entered service in 1941 with six machine guns and the Grumman-patented Sto-Wing folding wing system, [47] [48] which allowed more aircraft to be stored on an aircraft carrier, increasing the number of fighters that could be parked on a surface by more than a factor of 2. The F4F-4 was the definitive version that saw ...
Ro Laren / ˈ r oʊ ˈ l æ r ə n / is a fictional character appearing on a recurring basis in the fifth, sixth and seventh seasons of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Sto, pen name of illustrator Sergio Tofano; Transport. Société de transport de l'Outaouais, a public transit operator in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada;
Grumman E-1B Tracer of RVAW-110 after service aboard USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1976, showing the Grumman-patented Sto-Wing wing folding arrangement As one of the first carrier based early warning aircraft, the E-1 Tracer served from 1960 to 1977, [ 1 ] although considered only an interim type, being replaced by the Grumman E-2 Hawkeye in the ...
Gorn are available as one of the playable races for the Klingon Empire in the PC game Star Trek Online. The 'Gorn' jokes are a running gag in the online chat and spawned a fan-site of the species. [9] Dr. McCoy referred to performing an emergency delivery of a brood of eight Gorn, noting "those little bastards bite!"
On Jan. 6, 2021, Pence refused Trump's instructions to delay or halt the certification of current President Joe Biden's 2020 election win over Trump, drawing an angry rebuke from Trump during the ...
In 2004, Dockwise increased the deck width of Blue Marlin, to make it the then-largest heavy transport carrier in the world until it was surpassed by the launch of Dockwise Vanguard in 2012. One of the company's vessels, Mighty Servant 2 , capsized and sank after hitting an uncharted single underwater isolated pinnacle of granite off Indonesia ...