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HMHS Britannic (originally to be the RMS Britannic) (/ b r ɪ ˈ t æ n ɪ k /) was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic ...
The Russian warship Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, was attacked and sunk by Ukrainian forces on 14 April 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian officials announced that their forces had hit and damaged it with two R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles , and that the ship had then caught fire.
This is a list of ships sunk by missiles.Ships have been sunk by unguided projectiles for many centuries, but the introduction of guided missiles during World War II changed the dynamics of naval warfare. 1943 saw the first ships to be sunk by guided weapons, launched from aircraft, although it was not until 1967 that a ship was sunk by a missile launched from another ship outside a test ...
The cargo vessel sank in the South China Sea off Quảng Nam Seaport, Quảng Nam province, Vietnam. All eight crew members were rescued by the Vietnam Coast Guard. [170] The Admiral United States: The 100-foot (30 m) yacht burned and sank in Basin A, Marina Del Rey, California, after fireworks and ammunition caught fire aboard the vessel. [171]
The Panama Maritime Authority later reported that the ship had been sunk by a Russian missile. [175] Four crew members were initially reported as missing and were later found. [184] The ship was also reported to have been captured by the Russian Navy and used as a shield against Ukrainian shelling. [185]
On 13 November 1915, Britannic was requisitioned as a hospital ship from her storage location at Belfast. Repainted white and from bow to stern with large red crosses and a horizontal green stripe, she was renamed HMHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) Britannic. [52] Olympic (left), and Britannic, still fitting out, at Harland & Wolff, c.1915
8 January - A Russian Air Force aircraft accidentally released an FAB-250 warhead over Rubizhne, Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast. No casualties or damage were reported, and the warhead failed to detonate. [157] 12 March - A Russian Air Force IL-76 transport aircraft carrying 15 people on board caught fire and crashed during takeoff in Ivanovo ...
The incident occurred at a time of severely strained relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. [1] Responding to the Soviet Union's deployment of fourteen SS-20/RSD-10 theatre nuclear missiles, the NATO Double-Track Decision was taken in December 1979 by the military commander of NATO to deploy 108 Pershing II nuclear missiles in Western Europe with the ability to hit targets ...