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  2. List of current ships of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 95 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...

  3. List of naval ship classes in service - Wikipedia

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    Belgian Navy: 5 of 10 delivered from 1985 remain in service as the Aster class (3 sold to France, 1 to Bulgaria, 1 to Pakistan) Bulgarian Navy: 1 in service. French Navy: 13 in service as the Eridan class. Indonesian Navy: 2 in service as the Pulau Rengat class. Latvian Naval Forces: 5 in service.

  4. Warship - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, cruisers were the smallest warships capable of independent action. Along with battleships and battlecruisers, they have largely vanished from modern navies. Armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was designed like other types of cruisers to operate as a long-range, independent warship ...

  5. United States Navy ships - Wikipedia

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    USS Harpers Ferry, a United States Navy dock landing ship. Dock landing ships, also known as landing ship, dock or LSD, are amphibious warfare ships with well docks to transport and launch landing craft and amphibious vehicles. [10] Some ships with well decks, such as the Soviet Ivan Rogov class, also have bow doors to enable them to deliver ...

  6. Naval ship - Wikipedia

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    The ships include an aircraft carrier, two submarines, and seven destroyers. A naval ship (or naval vessel) is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) that is used by a navy. Naval ships are differentiated from civilian ships by construction and purpose. Generally, naval ships are damage resilient and armed with weapon ...

  7. List of active Russian Navy ships - Wikipedia

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    List of active Russian Navy ships. Naval Ensign of Russia (St. Andrew's flag) Naval Jack of Russia. This list of active Russian Navy ships presents a picture which can never be fully agreed upon in the absence of greater data availability and a consistent standard for which ships are considered operational or not.

  8. Naval armour - Wikipedia

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    Naval armor refers to the various protections schemes employed by warships. The first ironclad warship was created in 1859, and the pace of armour advancement accelerated quickly thereafter. The emergence of battleships around the turn of the 20th century saw ships become increasingly large and well armoured. Vast quantities of heavily armoured ...

  9. List of ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy - Wikipedia

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    Type 071 amphibious transport dock (Yuzhao class) Type 054A frigate (Jiangkai II class) Type 905 replenishment ship (Fuqing class). The ship types in service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) include aircraft carriers, submarines, (both nuclear and conventional), amphibious transport docks, landing ships, tank, landing ships, medium, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, missile boats ...