battle fleet


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Noun 1. [画像:battle fleet - a fleet of warships prepared for battle]battle fleet - a fleet of warships prepared for battle
fleet - a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
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The men of Torquas had perfected huge guns with which their uncanny marksmanship had permitted them to repulse the few determined efforts that near-by red nations had made to explore their country by means of battle fleets of airships.
| 1545: The Mary Rose, pride of Henry VIII's battle fleet, sank in the Solent with the loss of 700 lives.
1545: The Mary Rose, pride of Henry VIII's battle fleet, sank in the Solent on its way to attack a French fleet, with the loss of 700 lives.
Reeves received his qualification as a Naval Aviation Observer and in 1925, was posted as Commander, Aircraft Squadron, Battle Fleet. His flagship was the experimental carrier USS Langley (CV--1), rebuilt and recommissioned from his old ship, Jupiter.
1918: The German battle fleet surrendered to the Allies at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys.
As the Solarian Navy finally realizes it cannot face an Alliance battle fleet and win.
Never before had any navy in the world embarked on such a voyage, circumnavigating the globe and visiting as many countries with such a large and powerful battle fleet.
Using the perspective of complex adaptive systems, he describes the development of the doctrine from the end of the Spanish-American War through the beginning of World War II, discussing the Navy's transformation from a traditional organization to a modern one and the emergence of a learning system, and the evolution of the doctrine during the war and its shift from a centralized battle fleet to a distributed collection of mutually supported carrier task forces.
1545 The Mary Rose, pride of Henry battle fleet, sank in the Solent with the loss of 700 lives.
This conceptual shift requires a battle fleet capable of succeeding in a fight, against our strongest "near peer" adversaries we are likely to encounter in waters where it matters most.
RUSSIA yesterday withdrew a request for its battle fleet to dock in Spanish waters after Britain led an international outcry.

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