A brown-water navy or riverine navy, in the broadest sense, is a naval force capable of military operations in littoral zone waters. The term originated...
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"blue-water navy" is a maritime geographical term in contrast with "brown-water navy" (littoral waters and near to shore) and "green-water navy" (near...
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between two long-standing descriptors: blue-water navy (deep waters of open oceans) and brown-water navy (littoral waters and near to shore). As a non-doctrinal...
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Maritime geography (redirect from Brown water)
military units to loosely define three maritime regions: brown water, green water, and blue water. The elements of maritime geography are loosely defined...
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littoral applications (brown-water navy), open-ocean applications (blue-water navy), and something in between (green-water navy), although these distinctions...
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and deployable than a navy that just maintains corvettes or gunboats. A frigate navy can be a green water navy or a brown water navy, depending on how logistics...
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the late 1980s, the PLAN was largely a riverine and littoral force (brown-water navy) mostly in charge of coastal defense and patrol against potential Nationalist...
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Patrol Boat, River (category Patrol vessels of the United States Navy)
the Swift Boat by the U.S. Navy's Brown Water Navy during the Vietnam War. List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy Sherwood, John (31 January...
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Hull classification symbol (redirect from US Navy hull classification symbol)
included Brown Water Navy/Riverine Forces during the Vietnam War. Few of these ships are in service today. PBR: Patrol Boat, River, Brown Water Navy (Pibber...
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18 December 1965, the US Navy, for the second time in one hundred years, authorized the reactivation of a brown-water navy for riparian operations in...
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18 December 1965, the U.S. Navy, for the second time in a hundred years, authorized the reactivation of a brown-water navy, this time in South Vietnam...
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City-class ironclad (category Ironclad warships of the Union Navy)
Joiner, Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy, p. 138. Joiner, Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy, pp. 65–66. Joiner, Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy, p. 46. Milligan...
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Navy (French: Marine nationale) is the maritime component of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC). It is a brown-water navy,...
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but blockade runners provided a thin lifeline. The Brown-water navy components of the U.S. navy control of the river systems made internal travel difficult...
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Guard ship (section Royal Navy)
coastal patrol boat, which serves its protective role at sea. In the Royal Navy of the eighteenth century, peacetime guard ships were usually third-rate...
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Mobile Riverine Force (category Military units and formations of the United States Navy)
the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the brown-water navy. It was modeled after lessons learned by...
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of the Royal Navy Carrico, John M (2007). Vietnam Ironclads, A Pictorial History of US Navy River Assault Craft, 1966-1970. Brown Water Enterprises....
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applications (brown-water navy), open-ocean applications (blue-water navy), between riverine/littoral and open-ocean applications (green-water navy), although...
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Patrol boat (section Algerian National Navy)
nation's navy, coast guard, police, or customs, and may be intended for marine ("blue water"), estuarine ("green water"), or river ("brown water") environments...
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Patrol Craft Fast (category Patrol vessels of the United States Navy)
United States Navy, initially to patrol the coastal areas and later for work in the interior waterways as part of the brown-water navy to interdict Vietcong...
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troops refused to surrender. Napalm bombs were dropped by aviators of the US Navy, the USAAF, the US Marine Corps, and the Royal Air Force in support of ground...
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forces are often referred to as brown-water navies. There are several reasons a landlocked country may choose to maintain a navy. If a river or lake forms a...
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With the Peruvian Navy destroyed, Bolivia becoming a landlocked country, and Argentina having only a brown-water navy, the Chilean Navy had a regional hegemony...
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of United States Navy barges survived World War II and continued to act in a support role. Some were used by the "Brown Water Navy" of the United States...
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Scout cruiser (section Austro-Hungarian Navy)
tubes. The British were the first to operate scout cruisers, when the Royal Navy acquired 15 ships divided into two distinct groups - the eight vessels all...
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Cruise-missile submarine (redirect from SSG (US Navy))
its engine power alone as it may exit the atmosphere. The United States Navy's hull classification symbols for cruise missile submarines are SSG and SSGN...
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carrier, is an aircraft carrier smaller than the standard carriers of a navy. The precise definition of the type varies by country; light carriers typically...
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the West, USS Switzerland, USS Lancaster and USS Monarch during the brown-water navy battle for control of the Mississippi River and its tributaries as...
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Williams, who was awarded the Medal of Honor while serving in the "brown-water navy" in Vietnam. In 1958 BMCM Sherman Byrd became the first African-American...
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Fast combat support ship (category Auxiliary ships of the United States Navy)
The fast combat support ship (US Navy hull classification symbol: AOE) is a type of replenishment auxiliary ship. Different from traditional logistic ships...
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