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Trident/Ohio class submarine drawing. Sonar dome; Main ballast tanks; Computer room; Integrated radio room; Sonar room; Command and control center; Navigation Center; Missile control center; Engine room; Reactor compartment; Auxilliary machinery room no.2; Crew's berthing; Auxilliary machinery room no.1; Torpedo room; Wardroom; Chief Petty ...
A crow's nest is a structure in the upper part of the main mast of a ship or a structure that is used as a lookout point. On ships, this position ensured the widest field of view for lookouts to spot approaching hazards, other ships, or land by using the naked eye or optical devices such as telescopes or binoculars .
USS Alabama is the setting for the 1995 submarine film Crimson Tide. [60] The fictional ballistic missile submarine USS Colorado (SSBN-753) is the primary setting for the ABC television series Last Resort. [61] USS Wyoming is featured in Season 1, Episode 13 of the American television series The Brave. [62]
The Type 039A submarine [a] (NATO reporting name: Yuan class) is a class of diesel-electric submarine in China's People's Liberation Army Navy. [8] It is China's first AIP powered submarine. [ 9 ] The Yuan class is the successor of the Song class submarine . [ 10 ]
Deep cup nest of the great reed-warbler. A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young. Although the term popularly refers to a specific structure made by the bird itself—such as the grassy cup nest of the American robin or Eurasian blackbird, or the elaborately woven hanging nest of the Montezuma oropendola or the village weaver—that is too ...
A Juliett-class submarine A P-3C flies over a Juliett-class submarine An oblique photo of a Juliett-class submarine showing the aft end of a missile launcher and the blast deflector Initial plans called for 35 submarines of this class but only 16 were built, two - including the lead sub, by the Baltic Shipyard, St. Petersburg and the rest by ...
Common swifts nest in a wider variety of sites than any other species of Apus. Swifts usually nest in buildings but they can also be found nesting in holes in trees, cliffs and crevices, and even in nestboxes. Swifts usually enter their nesting holes with direct flight, and take-off is characterized by an initial free-fall. [14]