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Bedwars (stylized as BedWars) is a game developed by Easy.gg based on the fanmade Minecraft minigame of the same name. [155] Similar to the original version, players defend their bed from other opponents while attempting to destroy other player's beds. [156] [157] Unlike the Minecraft version, the game has more weapons to use. [155]
Conceptual design of Project Habakkuk aircraft carrier with 600-metre (1,969 ft) runway. Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.
Minesweeper J 636 underway in British coastal waters during World War II A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines . Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping.
U.S. Maritime Commission "Ships for Victory" emblem. The Emergency Shipbuilding Program (late 1940 – September 1945) was a United States government effort to quickly build simple cargo ships to carry troops and materiel to allies and foreign theatres during World War II. Run by the U.S. Maritime Commission, the program built almost 6,000 ships.
These ships were armed with a wide variety of defensive weapons from 0.5-inch (13 mm) machine guns to the 4-inch (100 mm) main armament. They were also equipped with a wide array of radars, along with their normal complement of mines. They were easily mistaken for destroyers. Half the class was lost through enemy action during the Second World ...
To regulate the movement of ships and landing craft with maximum economy, a special organization was established called Build Up Control (BUCO). This operated under the tactical commanders, the First Army in the US case, on the British committee system, with representatives of the Allied Naval Commander, Ministry of War Transport and War ...
The List of ship classes of World War II is an alphabetical list of all ship classes that served in World War II.Only actual classes are included as opposed to unique ships (which are still included if they were the only one of a class to be built, for example, HMS Hood was the first of the four planned Admiral-class battlecruisers, but the other three were cancelled).
The Parys mine had recently begun large-scale production and had glutted the British market with cheap copper; however, the 14 tons of metal required to copper a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line still cost £1,500, [12] compared to £262 for wood. The benefits of increased speed and time at sea were deemed to justify the costs involved.