The Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD), also known as the Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapon Development and colloquially known as...

nuclear weapons with the introduction of the first of the Resolution-class submarines armed with the Polaris missile. Following the conclusion of the collapse...

outpost of the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD). It was commissioned as HMS Birnbeck, and was used for secret weapons development and...

Admiralty's Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development was placed in command of Operation Pluto. By VE-Day his command would consist of several ships...

of coolness inherent in the Happy Days character Fonzie. During World War II, scientists working for the British Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development...

Cecil Hampshire's "The Royal Navy Since 1945" writes that [U]nder the system of Home Service, General Service, and Foreign Service commissions which was introduced...

of Churchill's war-winning Wizards, including atomic scientists, aeronautical engineers and the scientists of the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons...

(working at the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development) who devised the "Swiss roll" which consisted of a floating roadway made of waterproofed...

academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy. It is located on a hill overlooking the port of Dartmouth...

weapons delivery systems. Between 1940 and 1996, the U.S. federal government spent at least US$11.7 trillion in present-day terms on nuclear weapons,...

The Grand Fleet was the main battlefleet of the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was established in August 1914 and disbanded in April 1919. Its...

a collective responsibility for providing strategic direction to the department, managing performance and ensuring that defence delivers the required...

DMWD may refer to: Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development, a British Admiralty department during World War II DMWD (gene), a human gene protein...

based on Thornycroft's First World War mortar. The Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (the Wheezers and Dodgers) were advocating the multiple...

design and development, 1906-1922. Barnsley: Seaforth Pub. ISBN 978-1-84832-085-7. "Completed acquisition by Babcock International Group plc of Devonport...

Development. In 1958 the two were re-united as divisions of the Weapons Department, under the Director General of Weapons (Director General, Weapons from...

Set in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea, located near Eastbourne, it follows a well-meaning platoon of men ineligible for active service...

The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom that was responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Historically, its titular...

work of the several departments of the Admiralty. This responsibility did not always coincide with control of staff and the head of a department might...

Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, or more popularly Board of Longitude, was a British government body formed in 1714 to administer a scheme of prizes intended...

telescope in honour of the celebrated inventor of the Newtonian reflecting telescope. Some two decades of development led to the commissioning of the Isaac Newton...

The Air Department of the British Admiralty (later succeeded by the Air Section and the Air Division) was established prior to World War I by Winston...

the three service intelligence departments were amalgamated in the new Defence Intelligence Service at the Ministry of Defence. However, well before the...

experience in the dockyard and at sea. Graduates of the Academy could earn two years of sea time as part of their studies, and would be able to take the lieutenant's...

always a permanent member of the board until the Admiralty Department was established as an official government department in 1709 with the First Lord...

The Atlantic Fleet was a naval fleet of the Royal Navy. It existed for two periods; 1909 until 1914, and then 1919 until 1932. On 14 December 1904 the...

the war, he joined the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development where he photographed new weapons being deployed as part of their assessment. Most...

(1921–1943) Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (1941–1945) Inspectorate of Anti-Aircraft Weapons and Devices (1940) Weapons Department (1962–1964)...

assembled an enormous fleet of oilers and supply ships of every type. Even before the war, it had been active in the development of underway replenishment...

International Development section of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The Old Admiralty (Ripley Building) in 1760, before the addition of the Adam...