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Private purchase naval weapons are maritime weapons that were used aboard ships other than those in regular navies. They were stocked on private vessels...

nuclear weapons facilities, and the only West Coast dry dock capable of handling a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and the Navy's largest fuel depot. Naval Base...

easily outrace merchantmen, and tight controls on naval armaments led to fewer private-purchase naval weapons. Privateering continued until the 1856 Declaration...

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

resulted in 16 deaths, German weapons expert Holger Soschinka asserted that "Germany has one of the strictest weapons laws worldwide - and it is sufficient"...

global industry which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology. Public sector and private sector firms conduct research and development...

detachment of Naval Surface Warfare Center Division, Port Hueneme, California Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, California Naval Surface...

Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Calverton (NWIRP) was a government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) facility which had the mission of designing...

weapons to defend themselves against an offensive assault from the Soviet Union. From 1945 to 1972 the government ran a clandestine nuclear weapons program...

This article lists World War I infantry weapons (1914-1918). Edged weapons M1858/61 Kavalleriesäbel M1862 Infanteriesäbel M1873 Artilleriesäbel M1904 Kavalleriesäbel...

the Imperial Japanese Navy's Special Naval Landing Forces, and the smaller version was sold commercially to private customers. The Type 14 pistol was an...

a large provider of tracked and wheeled armored combat vehicles, naval guns, naval ship repair and modernization, artillery and missile launching systems...

and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The UK initiated...

Philippine independence in the Pan-Asian movement raised funds and sent weapons on the privately charted Nunobiki Maru unfortunately, the ship sank before it reach...

(1985). Naval Weapons of World War Two. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-459-2. Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World...

Naval Group is a major French industrial group specializing in naval defense design, development and construction. Its headquarters are located in Paris...

to improve the weapon. Since then, the advances made by human societies, and that of weapons, has been closely linked. Stone weapons gave way to Bronze...

Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. The history of the service can be traced back to 1692 when treatment for sick and wounded naval personnel was administered...

is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service...

Rosyth Dockyard /rəˈsaɪθ/ is a large naval dockyard on the Firth of Forth at Rosyth, Fife, Scotland, owned by Babcock Marine, which formerly undertook...