sci.military.naval FAQ

sci.military.naval FAQs

• Naval Slang, Jargon and Terminology FAQ Maintained by Jeff Crowell
  • Slang FAQ Part 1 (A-M)
  • Slang FAQ Part 2 (N-Z)

• sci.military.naval FAQ Maintained by Andrew Toppan
  
  • Part A: Introduction & About the Newsgroup
    • Section A.1: Introduction
    • Section A.2: Scope of the FAQ
    • Section A.3: Newsgroup Charter
    • Section A.4: Newsgroup History
    • Section A.5: Netiquette (Etiquette)
    • Section A.6: Security issues
    • Section A.7: Writing Good Questions
    • Section A.8: Acknowledgements, credits & disclaimers
    
    
  • Part B: General Terminology & Definitions
    • Section B.1: Common Internet abbreviations
    • Section B.2: Common naval abbreviations
    • Section B.3: Naval vessel designations (USA/NATO)
    • Section B.4: Naval vessel designations (USSR/Russia)
    • Section B.5: Warship naming
    • Section B.6: Meaning of warship status categories
    • Section B.7: Ranks
    • Section B.8: Ship Displacements
    • Section B.9: Conversion factors
    
    
  • Part C: General Naval Information
    • Section C.1: Finding shipmates and reunions
    • Section C.2: The fate of a certain ship
    • Section C.3: Lists of ships in service; state of a particular fleet
    • Section C.4: State of the Russian/ex-USSR Fleet
    • Section C.5: Tomahawk Missiles
    • Section C.6: Five Star Admirals
    • Section C.7: The Sullivan Brothers
    • Section C.8: TWA Flight 800
    • Section C.9: Basic Naval Research
    • Section C.10: Wooden decks on battleships, cruisers and carriers
    • Section C.11: Finding Logs and Muster Rolls
    • Section C.12: Other resources
    • Section C.13: Navy and Maritime Administration reserve ("mothball") fleets
    
    
  • Part D: Naval Aviation
    • Section D.1: A/F-X
    • Section D.2: The JSF (ex JAST) program
    • Section D.3: Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey
    • Section D.4: Yakovlev Yak-41/141 "Freestyle"
    • Section D.5: Is fighter X better than fighter Y?
    • Section D.6: Why do some aircraft have gold-tinted canopies?
    • Section D.7: Why do USAF aircraft have tailhooks?
    • Section D.8: Can X aircraft operate from a carrier?
    • Section D.9: Did a C-130 land on a carrier? How about a U-2?
    • Section D.10: The composition of an aircraft carrier's air wing
    • Section D.11: Why do the USAF/USN use incompatible refuelling systems?
    • Section D.12: Aircraft designations
    
    
  • Part E: Aircraft Carriers
    • Section E.1: Which aircraft carriers are in service?
    • Section E.2: What happened to the former USSR's aircraft carriers?
    • Section E.3: Composition of a carrier battle group
    • Section E.4: Major carrier fires since WWII
    • Section E.5: Naming of USS Franklin
    • Section E.6: Was USS Franklin repaired after she was nearly lost in 1945?
    • Section E.7: Decommissioning/disposal of older US carriers
    • Section E.8: The mysterious LPH 1
    • Section E.9: Why starboard side islands?
    • Section E.10: USN plans for future carriers
    • Section E.11: The Royal Navy's Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF) Program
    
    
  • Part F: Surface Combatants
    • Section F.1: Status of the Iowa class battleships
    • Section F.2: Grounding of USS Missouri in 1950
    • Section F.3: Decommissioning/disposal of US cruisers (CG/CGN) during the 1990's.
    • Section F.4: Meaning of warship types, i.e. "frigate","cruiser" and "destroyer"
    • Section F.5: The wrecks of Scapa Flow
    • Section F.6: Royal Navy losses during the Falkands War
    • Section F.7: Aluminum in warship construction
    • Section F.8 The 1975 reclassification of US cruisers, frigates and ocean escorts
    • Section F.9: The destroyer disaster at Honda Point, CA in 1923
    • Section F.10: The "stealth ship", Sea Shadow
    • Section F.11: Alaska class: large cruisers or battlecruisers?
    • Section F.12: Long Beach's Guns, and guns on "all missile" ships
    • Section F.13: Ships damaged in the Persian Gulf
    • Section F.14: Gun Calibers
    
    
  • Part G: Submarines
    • Section G.1: How are old nuclear submarines being disposed of?
    • Section G.2: Why are relatively modern subs being taken out of service?
    • Section G.3: What is the future of US ballistic missile subs (SSBN)?
    • Section G.4: What happened to USS Thresher and USS Scorpion?
    • Section G.5: Can someone list accidents involving nuclear submarines?
    • Section G.6: The Seawolf class
    • Section G.7: Salvage of German WWII U-Boats
    • Section G.8: US Covert operations submarines
    • Section G.9 Why don't the US, UK and France use diesel-electric subs?
    • Section G.10: The Russian 200 knot torpedo
    • Section G.11: Soviet/Russian "Akula" and "Typhoon" classes
    • Section C.12: Project Jennifer, Glomar Explorer, HMB-1, and the "Golf"-class SSB
    
    
  • Part H: Age of Sail & Historic Ships
    • Section H.1: What is hogging?
    • Section H.2: Status, condition and restoration of USS Constitution
    • Section H.3: Controversy about the history of the frigate/sloop-of-war USS Constellation
    • Section H.4: Restoration of the Sloop-of-War USS Constellation
    • Section H.5: Sailing Ship Rig Types & Classifications