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Brown-water navy

Index Brown-water navy

The term brown-water navy refers in its broadest sense to any naval force capable of military operations in fluvial or littoral environments, especially those carrying heavy sediment loads from soil runoff or flooding. [1]

100 relations: Agent Orange, Armed Forces of the Republic of Ivory Coast, Armored Troop Carrier (LCM), Badges of the United States Navy, Blue-water navy, Boatswain's mate (United States Navy), Carrier battle group, Casemate ironclad, Caspian Flotilla, Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, Chilean Navy, Coast Guard Squadron One, Combined arms, Command of the sea, Dinassaut, Elmo Zumwalt, Flotilla, Flyboat, Frigate navy, Green-water navy, Gunboat, HA(L)-3, Harbour Defence Motor Launch, Helicopter Attack Squadron (Light) Five, Hispanics in the United States Navy, History of the United States Navy, Hull classification symbol, Imperial Chinese Navy, Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Iraqi Navy, John Darrell Sherwood, John Lenthall (shipbuilder), Juliet Marine Systems Ghost, Khmer National Navy, Korean People's Navy, Kustjägarna, List of monitors of the United States Navy, M80 Stiletto, Mare Island, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Maritime geography, Mark VI patrol boat, Military beret, Military history of Thailand, Mississippi River campaigns, Mississippi River Squadron, Missouri in the American Civil War, Mobile Riverine Force, Modern warfare, Mohammad Shariff, ..., Mongolian military ranks, Monitor (warship), Namibian Navy, Nanuk Remotely Controlled Weapon Station, Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, Naval fleet, Navies of landlocked countries, Navy, Navy Cargo Handling Battalion, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, Navy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, Pakistan Armed Forces, Pakistan Coast Guards, Pakistan Navy, Passage of Humaitá, Patrol Craft Fast, People's Liberation Army Navy, Portuguese Navy, Republic of Vietnam River and Coastal Police, Rheinmetall Air Defence, River monitor, River pirate, Royal Hungarian Army, Royal Lao Navy, Royal Netherlands Navy, Satakundskaya Flotilla, Serbian River Flotilla, Shivaji, Special warfare combatant-craft crewmen, Steamboats on the Yangtze River, Syed Mohammad Ahsan, Tariq Kamal Khan, The Sand Pebbles (film), Torpedo boat, Unadilla-class gunboat, United States floating battery Demologos, United States Naval Special Warfare Command, United States Navy, United States Navy SEALs, USS Carronade (IFS-1), USS Harnett County (LST-821), USS Hunterdon County (LST-838), USS Maury (AGS-16), USS Tioga County (LST-1158), USS Walworth County (LST-1164), USS Windham County (LST-1170), XM214 Microgun, Yard Repair Berthing and Messing, 9th Infantry Division (United States). Expand index (50 more) »

Agent Orange

Agent Orange is an herbicide and defoliant chemical, one of the tactical use Rainbow Herbicides.

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Armed Forces of the Republic of Ivory Coast

The Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire (Forces Republicaines de Cote d'Ivoire; "FRCI") is the current name of the armed forces of Ivory Coast.

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Armored Troop Carrier (LCM)

‘’’Armored Troop Carriers (ATC)’’’, often called ‘’Tangos’’ from the phonetic alphabet for ‘’T’’, were LCM-6 landing crafts modified for riverine patrol missions.

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Badges of the United States Navy

Insignia and badges of the United States Navy are military "badges" issued by the United States Department of the Navy to naval service members who achieve certain qualifications and accomplishments while serving on both active and reserve duty in the United States Navy.

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Blue-water navy

A blue-water navy is a maritime force capable of operating globally, essentially across the deep waters of open oceans.

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Boatswain's mate (United States Navy)

The United States Navy occupational rating of boatswain's mate (abbreviated as BM) is a designation given by the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) to enlisted members who were rated or "striking" for the rating as a deck seaman.

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Carrier battle group

A carrier battle group (CVBG) consists of an aircraft carrier (designated CV) and its large number of escorts, together defining the group.

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Casemate ironclad

The casemate ironclad is a type of iron or iron-armored gunboat briefly used in the American Civil War by both the Confederate States Navy and its adversary, the Union Navy.

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Caspian Flotilla

The Caspian Flotilla (r) is the flotilla of the Russian Navy in the Caspian Sea.

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Chesapeake Bay Flotilla

The Chesapeake Bay Flotilla was a motley collection of barges and gunboats that the United States assembled under the command of Joshua Barney, an 1812 privateer captain, to stall British attacks in the Chesapeake Bay which came to be known as the "Chesapeake Campaign" during the War of 1812.

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Chilean Navy

The Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile) is the naval force of Chile.

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Coast Guard Squadron One

Coast Guard Squadron One, also known in official message traffic as COGARDRON ONE or RONONE, was a combat unit formed by the United States Coast Guard in 1965 for service during the Vietnam War.

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Combined arms

Combined arms is an approach to warfare which seeks to integrate different combat arms of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects (for example, using infantry and armor in an urban environment, where one supports the other, or both support each other).

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Command of the sea

A navy has command of the sea (also called control of the sea or sea control) when it is so strong that its rivals cannot attack it directly.

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Dinassaut

The Dinassaut (Division Navale d'Assaut, "Naval Assault Division") was a type of riverine military unit employed by the French Navy during the first Indochina War.

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Elmo Zumwalt

Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. (November 29, 1920 – January 2, 2000) was an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations.

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Flotilla

A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota (fleet) of ships, and this from French flotte, and this from Russian "флот" (flot), meaning "fleet"), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet.

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Flyboat

The flyboat (also spelled fly-boat or fly boat) was a European light vessel (developed primarily as a mercantile cargo carrier, although many served as warships in an auxiliary role) of between 70 and 200 tons, used in the late 16th and early 17th century; the name was subsequently applied to a number of disparate vessels which achieved high speeds or endurance.

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Frigate navy

Frigate navy is a term describing a nation state's navy that is made of mostly frigates or destroyers as a major combat force.

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Green-water navy

Green-water navy is terminology created to describe a naval force that is designed to operate in its nation's littoral zones and has the competency to operate in the open oceans of its surrounding region.

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Gunboat

A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.

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HA(L)-3

HA(L)-3, (Helicopter Attack Squadron (Light) 3), nicknamed the "Seawolves", was an all-volunteer US Navy squadron formed in support of Naval Special Warfare operations and Mobile Riverine Forces during the Vietnam War.

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Harbour Defence Motor Launch

The harbour defence motor launch (HDML) was a British small motor vessel of the Second World War.

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Helicopter Attack Squadron (Light) Five

Helicopter Attack Squadron (Light) Five, known by the US Navy designation HA(L)-5 (sometimes abbreviated as HAL-5), was the initial designation of a Naval Special Warfare and close air support helicopter squadron in the period following the Vietnam War, which, along with its sister squadron HA(L)-4 "Red Wolves", was one of the last two US Navy squadrons using HH-1K "Huey" gunships.

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Hispanics in the United States Navy

Hispanics in the United States Navy can trace their tradition of naval military service to men such as Lieutenant Jordi Farragut Mesquida, who served in the American Revolution.

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History of the United States Navy

The history of the United States Navy divides into two major periods: the "Old Navy", a small but respected force of sailing ships that was also notable for innovation in the use of ironclads during the American Civil War, and the "New Navy", the result of a modernization effort that began in the 1880s and made it the largest in the world by the 1920s.

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Hull classification symbol

The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by individual ship within a type.

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Imperial Chinese Navy

The Imperial Chinese Navy was the modern navy of the Qing Empire established in 1875.

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Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the liberation war in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 to the fall of Dacca (Dhaka) on 16 December 1971.

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Iraqi Navy

The Iraqi Navy (IqN) is one of the components of the military of Iraq.

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John Darrell Sherwood

John Darrell Sherwood (born 1966) is an American author who has published five books and numerous articles.

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John Lenthall (shipbuilder)

John Lenthall (16 September 1807 – 11 April 1882) was an important American shipbuilder and naval architect.

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Juliet Marine Systems Ghost

GHOST is an advanced super-cavitating stealth ship that can reduce hull friction to 1/900th that of conventional watercraft.

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Khmer National Navy

The Khmer National Navy (Marine Nationale Khmère – MNK), was the naval component of the Khmer National Armed Forces (FANK), the official military of the Khmer Republic during the Cambodian Civil War between 1970 and 1975.

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Korean People's Navy

The Korean People's Navy (KPN), officially known as the Korean People's Army Naval Force (Chosŏn'gŭl: 조선인민군 해군; Hanja: 朝鮮人民軍 海軍, Chosŏn-inmingun Haegun, literally "Korean People's Army Sea Military"), is the naval service branch of the Korean People's Army, which contains each branch of the North Korean armed forces.

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Kustjägarna

The Coastal Rangers (or Kustjägarna, initials "KJ") is an amphibious elite special operations unit within the Swedish Amphibious Corps, which is the coastal defence arm of the Swedish Navy.

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List of monitors of the United States Navy

This is a list of all monitors of the United States Navy.

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M80 Stiletto

The M80 Stiletto is an American prototype naval ship of a new generation type of ship utilizing advanced stealth technologies, it is manufactured and developed by American naval architecture and maritime engineering company and defense contractor the M Ship Company as an operational experimental ship testbed / class for The Pentagon’s Office of Force Transformation.

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Mare Island

Mare Island is a peninsula in the United States in the city of Vallejo, California, about northeast of San Francisco.

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Mare Island Naval Shipyard

The Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY) was the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean.

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Maritime geography

Maritime geography is often discussed in terms of three loosely defined regions: brown water, green water, and blue water.

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Mark VI patrol boat

The Mark VI is a class of patrol boat in service with the United States Navy.

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Military beret

Berets have been a component of the uniforms of many armed forces throughout the world since the mid-20th century.

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Military history of Thailand

The military history of Thailand encompasses a thousand years of armed struggle, from wars of independence from the powerful Khmer Empire, through to struggles with her regional rivals of Burma and Vietnam and periods of tense standoff and conflict with the colonial empires of Britain and France.

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Mississippi River campaigns

The Mississippi River campaigns were a series of military actions by the Union Army during the American Civil War in which Union troops, helped by Union Navy gunboats and river ironclads, took control of the Cumberland River, the Tennessee River and the Mississippi River, main north-south avenues of transport.

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Mississippi River Squadron

The Mississippi River Squadron was the Union brown-water naval squadron that operated on the western rivers during the American Civil War.

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Missouri in the American Civil War

During the American Civil War, Missouri was a hotly contested border state populated by both Union and Confederate sympathizers.

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Mobile Riverine Force

In the Vietnam War, the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) (after May 1967), initially designated Mekong Delta Mobile Afloat Force, and later the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the Brown Water Navy.

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Modern warfare

Modern warfare is warfare using the concepts, methods, and military technology that have come into use during and after World Wars I and II.

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Mohammad Shariff

Admiral Mohammad Shariff Khan (Urdu: ايڈمرل محمد شريف; b.1920–7 July 2015,, was a four-star rank admiral and a memoirist who was at the center of all the major decisions made in Pakistan in the events involving the war with India in 1971, the enforcement of martial law in the country in 1977, and the decision in covertly intervening against Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Gaining commission in the Royal Indian Navy, he participated in the World War II on behalf of Great Britain before joining the Pakistan Navy in 1947 as one of the senior staff officer. In 1969, he was appointed Flag Officer Commanding of the Eastern Command of the Pakistan military in the East-Pakistan and led by the Eastern Naval Command during the civil war in East, followed by the foreign intervention by India in 1971. After the war, he was taken as war prisoner alongside with Lieutenant-General A.A.K Niazi after conceding of the surrender of Eastern Command to the Indian Army. He resumed his active military service in the Navy after his repatriation from India and was appointed the Chief of Naval Staff in 1975 after the sudden death of Vice-Admiral Hasan Ahmed. He has the distinction of being the first four-star admiral in the navy and was the first admiral to be appointed as Chairman joint chiefs committee in 1978 until 1980. As the Chairman Joint Chiefs Committee, he continued to advocate for an aggressive foreign policy and a strong nuclear deterrent against the foreign intervention. After retiring from the military in 1980, Shariff was appointed as chairman of Federal Public Service Commission while he continued his role as military adviser to President Zia-ul-Haq until 1988 when he retired from public service. After living a quiet life in Islamabad, he announced to publish his memoirs, "Admiral's Diary", on providing further accounts, causes, and failure of military crackdown in East Pakistan.

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Mongolian military ranks

The Military ranks of Mongolia are the military insignia used by the Mongolian Armed Forces and other military organisations such as Border defense troops, Internal troops, National emergency management agency, General executive agency of Court decision, General intelligence agency, and the State special security department.

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Monitor (warship)

A monitor was a relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns.

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Namibian Navy

The Namibian Navy is the Maritime Warfare Branch of the Namibian Defence Force.

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Nanuk Remotely Controlled Weapon Station

The Nanuk is a remote weapon station (RWS) used for light and medium calibre weapons which can be installed on any type of armoured vehicles or Brown water patrol vessel.

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Naval Amphibious Base Coronado

Naval Amphibious Base Coronado (NAB Coronado) is a naval installation located across the bay from San Diego, California.

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Naval fleet

A fleet or naval fleet is a large formation of warships, which is controlled by one leader and the largest formation in any navy.

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Navies of landlocked countries

A landlocked navy is a naval force operated by a country which does not have a coastline.

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Navy

A navy or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions.

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Navy Cargo Handling Battalion

The Navy Cargo Handling Battalion (NCHB) is part of the Navy Seabees and provides the flexible support of logistics in the form of transportation (deployable), and supply support globally where needed by the United States Military.

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Navy Expeditionary Combat Command

The Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) serves as the single functional command to centrally manage current and future readiness, resources, manning, training and equipping of the United States Navy's 21,000 expeditionary forces who are currently serving in every theater of operation.

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Navy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Congolese Navy, known as the National Navy (Marine Nationale), is the maritime component of the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Operational Test and Evaluation Force

The Operational Test and Evaluation Force (OPTEVFOR) serves as independent and objective agency within the United States Navy for the operational testing and evaluation (OT&E) of naval aviation, surface warfare, submarine warfare, C4I, cryptologic, and space systems in support Navy and U.S. Department of Defense acquisition programs.

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Pakistan Armed Forces

The Pakistan Armed Forces (پاکستان مُسَلّح افواج, Pākistān Musallah Afwāj) are the military forces of Pakistan.

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Pakistan Coast Guards

The Pakistan Coast Guards (پاک ساحلی محافظ; reporting name: PCG) is a law enforcement organization and one of the six uniform services of the Paramilitary command functioning and operating under the civilian control of the Interior Ministry (MoI).

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Pakistan Navy

The Pakistan Navy (rtl; Pɑkistan Bahri'a) (reporting name: PN) is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, responsible for Pakistan's of coastline along the Arabian Sea, and the defence of important civilian harbours and military bases.

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Passage of Humaitá

The Passage of Humaitá (Portuguese: Passagem de Humaitá) was an operation of riverine warfare during the Paraguayan War − the most lethal in South American history − in which a force of six Brazilian Navy armoured vessels was ordered to dash past under the guns of the Paraguayan fortress of Humaitá.

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Patrol Craft Fast

Patrol Craft Fast (PCF), also known as Swift Boats, were all-aluminum, long, shallow-draft vessels operated by the 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 movement of arms and munitions, transport Vietnamese forces and insert SEAL teams for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations during the Vietnam War.

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People's Liberation Army Navy

The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), also known as the PLA Navy, is the naval warfare branch of the People's Liberation Army, which is the armed wing of the Communist Party of China and, by default, the national armed forces of the People's Republic of China.

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Portuguese Navy

The Portuguese Navy (Marinha Portuguesa, also known as Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa or as Armada Portuguesa) is the naval branch of the Portuguese Armed Forces which, in cooperation and integrated with the other branches of the Portuguese military, is charged with the military defense of Portugal.

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Republic of Vietnam River and Coastal Police

The River and Coastal Police, also variously designated as Marine Police and 'Police Nautique' or 'Police Fluviale et Côtière' in French, was the "naval" branch of the Republic of Vietnam National Police (Vietnamese: Cãnh Sát Quốc Gia – CSQG), active from 1965 to 1975.

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Rheinmetall Air Defence

Rheinmetall Air Defence AG is a division of German armament manufacturer Rheinmetall, created when the company's Oerlikon Contraves unit was renamed on 1 January 2009 and integrated with Rheinmetall's other air-defence products.

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River monitor

River monitors are military craft designed to patrol rivers.

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River pirate

A river pirate is a pirate who operates along a river.

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Royal Hungarian Army

The Royal Hungarian Army (Magyar Királyi Honvédség, Königlich Ungarische Armee) was the name given to the land forces of the Kingdom of Hungary in the period from 1922 to 1945.

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Royal Lao Navy

The Royal Lao Navy (French: Marine royale laotienne – MRL) was the naval component of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (FAR), the official military of the Royal Lao Government and the Kingdom of Laos during the Laotian Civil War between 1960 and 1975.

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Royal Netherlands Navy

The Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine, “Royal Navy”) is the navy of the Netherlands.

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Satakundskaya Flotilla

The Satakundskaya Flotilla (Satakundskaya flotilla) was a brown-water navy unit of the Imperial Russian Navy, operating on Lake Näsijärvi, Finland, during the First World War from spring 1916 until winter 1917.

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Serbian River Flotilla

The Serbian River Flotilla (Речна Флотила, Rečna flotila) is the specific unit of the Serbian Land Forces with the task of keeping an optimum operational regime of sailing and of protection of Serbian interests in interior sailing corridors.

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Shivaji

Shivaji Bhonsle (c. 1627/1630 – 3 April 1680) was an Indian warrior king and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan.

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Special warfare combatant-craft crewmen

The Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC, pronounced "Swick") is a United States Naval Special Warfare Command team that operates and maintains an inventory of small craft used to conduct special operations missions, particularly those of the U.S. Navy SEALs.

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Steamboats on the Yangtze River

After thousands of years of junk and sampan traffic on the Yangtze River (Jiang), river steamers were introduced by Europeans during the mid- to late-nineteenth century.

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Syed Mohammad Ahsan

Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan (ﺴﻴﺩ ﻣﺤﻣﺪ ﺍﺣﺴﻦ b. 1920 – d. 1989), often known as S. M. Ahsan, was a three-star rank admiral in the Pakistan Navy, politician, and the Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Navy, serving under President Ayub Khan from 1966 until 1969.

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Tariq Kamal Khan

Admiral Tariq Kamal Khan (طارق کمال خان; b. 21 May 1930),, is a retired four-star rank admiral and a former diplomat who served as a Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of Pakistan Navy from being appointed in 1983 until retiring from his service in 1986.

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The Sand Pebbles (film)

The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American DeLuxe Color war film directed by Robert Wise in Panavision.

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Torpedo boat

A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle.

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Unadilla-class gunboat

The Unadilla class was a class of gunboat built for the Union Navy at the outbreak of the American Civil War.

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United States floating battery Demologos

Demologos was the first warship to be propelled by a steam engine.

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United States Naval Special Warfare Command

The United States Naval Special Warfare Command (NAVSPECWARCOM), also known as NSWC, is the Naval component of United States Special Operations Command, the unified command responsible for overseeing and conducting the nation's special operations and missions.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Navy SEALs

The United States Navy's Sea, Air and Land Teams, commonly abbreviated as the Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command.

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USS Carronade (IFS-1)

USS Carronade (IFS-1/LFR-1) was a ship of the United States Navy first commissioned in 1955.

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USS Harnett County (LST-821)

USS LST-821, renamed USS Harnett County (LST-821/AGP-281), was an built for the United States Navy during World War II.

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USS Hunterdon County (LST-838)

USS Hunterdon County (LST-838) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II, and later reconfigured and recommissioned for riverine warfare during the Vietnam War.

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USS Maury (AGS-16)

USS Maury (AGS-16) was a surveying ship in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1969.

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USS Tioga County (LST-1158)

USS Tioga County (LST-1158), previously USS LST-1158, was a United States Navy landing ship tank (LST) in commission from 1953 to 1970, and which then saw non-commissioned Military Sealift Command service as USNS Tioga County (T-LST-1158) from 1972 to 1973.

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USS Walworth County (LST-1164)

USS Walworth County (LST-1164), previously USS LST-1164, was a United States Navy landing ship tank (LST) in commission from 1953 to 1971, and which then saw non-commissioned Military Sealift Command service as USNS Walworth County (T-LST-1164) from 1972 to 1973.

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USS Windham County (LST-1170)

USS Windham County (LST-1170), previously USS LST-1170, was a United States Navy landing ship tank (LST) in commission from 1954 to 1973 which saw service in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific and served in the Vietnam War.

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XM214 Microgun

The XM214 is an American prototype 5.56 mm rotary-barreled machine gun.

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Yard Repair Berthing and Messing

Yard Repair Berthing and Messing were large unpropelled barges used by the "Brown Water Navy" of the US during the Vietnam War, as bases for specialized river boats.

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9th Infantry Division (United States)

The 9th Infantry Division ("Old Reliables") was created as the 9th Division during World War I, but never deployed overseas.

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Redirects here:

Brown Water Navy, Brown water navy, Brownwater Navy, Brownwater navy, Riverine Warfare, Riverine navy, Riverine warfare.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-water_navy

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