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While the F/A-18C is possessed by the Navy Reserve Strike fighter squadron VFA-204, due to their unsuitability in combat situations in regards to their lack of modern avionics, communications equipment and weapons integration, they are used solely as an adversary/aggressor trainer.
AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon; AIM-9 Sidewinder; AIM-7 Sparrow; AIM-120 AMRAAM; AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER; JDAM GPS-guided bombs; Paveway laser-guided bombs; CBU-100 Cluster Bomb; B61 nuclear bomb; Mark 82 dumb bomb; Mk 77 incendiary bomb; SCALPEL
Gambier Bay was the only US Navy aircraft carrier to be sunk by surface naval gunfire during WWII. She lost 147 of her crew. USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76) was operating off Luzon on 8 January 1945 when at 07:46 a Ki-43 Oscar plunged down towards the carrier. The aircraft came under heavy anti-aircraft fire but it continued aiming directly for the ...
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 list of naval weapon systems aims to provide reference about weapons mounted on surface combatant warships, and smaller craft and submarines found throughout the history of naval warfare. The list is sorted alpha-numerically by system service designation (i.e. Mk 15), or issue name if designation is unknown: NB: As this is an English ...
Torpedoes of the United States (1 C, 62 P) Pages in category "Naval weapons of the United States" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
Bomb damage assessment (BDA), also known as battle damage assessment, is the practice of assessing damage inflicted on a target from a stand-off weapon, most typically a bomb or air launched missile. It is part of the larger discipline of combat assessment .
Naval weapons of the United States (11 C, 35 P) W. World War I naval weapons (1 C, 53 P) World War II naval weapons (2 C, 105 P) Pages in category "Naval weapons"