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The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy (German: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short k.u.k. Kriegsmarine, Hungarian: Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. Ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy were designated SMS, for Seiner Majestät Schiff (His Majesty's Ship).
The Austro-Hungarian Navy maintained a number of naval facilities in the Adriatic, most importantly that at Pola, and possessed some three modern dreadnought class battleships in 1914 as well as three modern pre-dreadnoughts and nine older battleships and a range of other craft including cruisers, destroyers and submarines in various states of ...
SMS Don Juan d'Austria (1862) Erzherzog Ferdinand Max class. SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max (1865) SMS Habsburg (1865) SMS Lissa (1869) SMS Kaiser (1858) – former ship of the line, re-launched 1871 as ironclad; SMS Custoza (1872) SMS Erzherzog Albrecht (1872) Kaiser Max class. SMS Kaiser Max (1875) SMS Don Juan d'Austria (1875) SMS Prinz Eugen ...
All three were decommissioned in 1916 in order to allow their crews to serve in the Austro-Hungarian air force and as crew members of Austro-Hungarian U-boats. [7] Following the end of World War I, all of the Habsburg-class battleships were handed over to Great Britain. They were then sold to Italy and broken up in 1921. [11]
The Austrian Armed Forces (German: Bundesheer, lit. 'Federal Army') are the combined military forces of Austria. The military consists of 16,000 active-duty personnel and 125,600 reservists. [1] The military budget is 1.0% of national GDP (including pensions) or €3.317 billion (2023,without pensions). [3]
Although the Kingdom of Hungary comprised only 42% of the population of Austria–Hungary, [76] the thin majority – more than 3.8 million soldiers – of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces were conscripted from the Kingdom of Hungary during the First World War. Roughly 600,000 soldiers were killed in action, and 700,000 soldiers were wounded ...
Austro-Hungarian Navy (2 C, 7 P, 2 F) W. ... Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces; A. Abstinence (conscription) Rank insignia of the Austro-Hungarian Army; Army Slavic;
World War I naval ships of Austria-Hungary (6 C, 18 P) * Ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (11 C, 3 P) A. Auxiliary ships of Austria-Hungary (1 C) B.