Sentences with phrase «us naval»

Consider the analogy of a naval captain.

Defence Issues Minister Paul Papalia says Western Australia has been dudded in the federal government's $ 89 billion naval shipbuilding plan, of which WA will receive just over $ 3 billion of work, while the prime minister has lauded it as «unashamedly nationalistic».

It was the first battle in naval history in which aircraft carriers engaged each other.

«I believe the [National Defense Strategy] and other guidance requires us to adopt a more global posture and this will shape our future naval presence, especially in the Indo - Pacific region,» Neller said.

Though confined to vessels, naval battles have been just as large and devastating as land battles.

On 1 June 1916, it was clear to every thinking person that this battle must, and would be, the last one,» a German naval expert wrote in 1918.

Sir George Sydenham Clarke, a British officer and colonial administrator at the time, wrote that «the battle of Tsu - shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar.»

A number of naval battles with the British proved inconclusive, and the Royal Navy was able to achieve a number of victories that crippled the Regia Marina.

The Japanese Navy believed that the loss of the Philippines would essentially mean the loss of the South China Sea, and sent a massive naval force divided into three groups to lure the Allies out to sea and destroy them.

With this new type of warship, and with the advent of aircraft carriers decades later, naval battles saw a new level of intensity and importance, as they defined the course of wars.

It's also a natural deep water port and houses the largest naval fleet in the world, as well as the only major submarine and ship building yards in the U.S.. On top of that, it's becoming a center for the biotech industry and has a growing startup scene.

Russia has also moved its warships out of a naval base in Syria out of concern for their safety after Trump threatened strikes.

If Neller's September vision for HIMARs holds, and the Marine Corps starts adapting TTPs for launching naval gunfire on the fly — which the Anchorage test suggests it is — then Marines can expect to find themselves engaging targets while still rocking and bobbing at sea... long before they hit the beach or fast - rope into some poor schmuck's compound.

The official said this could require a more sustained U.S. air and naval presence.

Richardson, the chief of US naval operations, told the House Appropriations subcommittee in March that Russia's increasing interest in undersea operations was «exactly why our investments [in European operations] are focused on the antisubmarine - warfare problem, both enhancing our undersea sensors and then... infrastructure for the antisubmarine aircraft, the P - 8.»

Indian and Western diplomats «are convinced that Hambantota will end up becoming a Chinese military and naval base, or another Djibouti,» the Observer Research Foundation, an Indian think tank, said in an October report.

Iran has caused international concern over its frequent naval drills in the strait, seen as intimidation tactics against its rivals.

It also claimed other countries wanted to «limit Russia's access to resources at sea and its access to vitally important naval transport communications.»

The Gulf has seen a number of naval incidents between Iran and the US in the past year, including test rocket fire by the Islamic Republic and the brief capture of American sailors who strayed into its territorial waters.

Last November, Modi's team inked a pact with Singapore that may boost Indian access to that country's Changi naval base.

There were ideas for lobbing mortars into Guantanamo naval base, in addition to blowing up some of the aircraft or ammunition there.

But when taken together, the Ford line of aircraft carriers shows the direction forward as envisioned by the US's naval planners.

The loss of an Indian naval ship from submarine action in the 1971 Indo - Pakistan War brought Paulraj to sonar technology and he advanced the Indian Navy's sonar capability.

The Gallop Government's decision in June to provide a $ 3 million incentive package to US defence contractor Raytheon, which is relocating its naval systems division headquarters from Sydney to Jervoise Bay, may also have run foul of the new policy.

It manufactures all kinds of combat aircraft, naval systems, missiles, unmanned systems, and more.

Carnegie Wave Energy has switched on its innovative CETO power plant, which will provide renewable electricity to the HMAS Stirling naval base on Garden Island.

Singer refused to take the deal and instead litigated — at one point obtaining a court order mandating the seizure of an Argentine naval vessel.

Moscow is merely concerned with strengthening Assad's hold over part of the country, which also includes its [Russia's] naval facility [at Tartus].»

In Japan, China pushed territorial buttons this year by sending naval vessels, including destroyers and attack submarines, through Japanese waters on their way into the Pacific Ocean.

The US maintains a large naval presence in the Pacific with advanced ballistic - missile - defense capabilities.

History: For an absolute bargain price of $ 12 million, for a naval flagship, the São Paulo was bought by Brazil to upgrade their ailing fleet.

Shiite - majority Iran has threatened to close the strait and plant naval mines to assert its power over Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states.

And he vows to rebuild a U.S. military - from naval ships and jet fighters to the U.S. nuclear arsenal - that he insists has eroded under President Obama.

President Obama has said he still hopes to close the prison, located in an isolated corner of the 45 - square - mile naval base that overlooks Guantanamo Bay in southeastern Cuba, by the time he leaves office.

He also said they should think twice before disputing China's territorial claims, which include the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Yellow Sea, where China has tried to prevent naval exercises by the U.S. and South Korea.

Saudi Arabia and its allies have conducted naval drills to show their willingness and ability to retaliate should Iran follow through.

One of Lockheed's four business areas, RMS is a $ 16 billion business that includes helicopters, naval systems, platform integration, logistics, simulation, and training.

Spanish state - owned shipbuilder Navantia will sell five small warships, Spain's army will train Saudi military personnel and contractors will build a naval construction center in the kingdom.

That can mean doing work in biomechanics, textiles, or marine fields such as naval architects, who design ships and offshore oil platforms.

Tension in the region is especially high as US and South Korean forces conduct and prepare to conduct major naval and ground exercises.

The naval operation is part of a wider EU blueprint launched by European Commission chief Jean - Claude Juncker last week.

Kennedy decided on a naval blockade rather than an air strike, and Khrushchev backed down.

Thursday is the 76th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese assault on a US naval base that resulted in the deaths of 2,402 Americans, numerous injuries, and the sinking of four battleships.

Watching General Fusion's progress with interest is Peter J. Turchi, who was in charge of the imploding liner technology for the overall Linus program between 1972 and 1980 at the naval lab.

Money: Compensation data for Canadian naval architects is lacking.

But the naval labs lacked the capacity to model the magnetized plasma and funding eventually was moved to other projects.

«If you make a small mistake when writing code for some application like Facebook, the maximum that might happen is that you end up having some additional text on the screen,» says Praveen Viswanath, a naval engineer working in Vancouver.

«Other engineers» encompasses a wide variety of fields, from agriculture to biomechanics to textiles — not to mention an array of marine jobs like naval architect.

«But if you make a mistake when you are doing an engineering calculation in naval architecture, you may end up killing some people.

It's worth noting, as CBS points out, that Syria hosts Russia's only naval base on the Mediterranean Sea.