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Corrections, additions, suggestions and comments are always welcome. The
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Contents:


* Naval Slang, Jargon and Terminology FAQ Maintained by Jeff Crowell

* sci.military.naval FAQ Maintained by Andrew Toppan

* Part A: Introduction & About the Newsgroup
o Section A.1: Introduction
o Section A.2: Scope of the FAQ
o Section A.3: Newsgroup Charter
o Section A.4: Newsgroup History
o Section A.5: Netiquette (Etiquette)
o Section A.6: Security issues
o Section A.7: Writing Good Questions
o Section A.8: Acknowledgements, credits & disclaimers

* Part B: General Terminology & Definitions
o Section B.1: Common Internet abbreviations
o Section B.2: Common naval abbreviations
o Section B.3: Naval vessel designations (USA/NATO)
o Section B.4: Naval vessel designations (USSR/Russia)
o Section B.5: Warship naming
o Section B.6: Meaning of warship status categories
o Section B.7: Ranks
o Section B.8: Ship Displacements
o Section B.9: Conversion factors

* Part C: General Naval Information
o Section C.1: Finding shipmates and reunions
o Section C.2: The fate of a certain ship
o Section C.3: Lists of ships in service; state of a particular
fleet
o Section C.4: State of the Russian/ex-USSR Fleet
o Section C.5: Tomahawk Missiles
o Section C.6: Five Star Admirals
o Section C.7: The Sullivan Brothers
o Section C.8: TWA Flight 800
o Section C.9: Basic Naval Research
o Section C.10: Wooden decks on battleships, cruisers and carriers
o Section C.11: Finding Logs and Muster Rolls
o Section C.12: Other resources
o Section C.13: Navy and Maritime Administration reserve
("mothball") fleets

* Part D: Naval Aviation
o Section D.1: A/F-X
o Section D.2: The JSF (ex JAST) program
o Section D.3: Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey
o Section D.4: Yakovlev Yak-41/141 "Freestyle"
o Section D.5: Is fighter X better than fighter Y?
o Section D.6: Why do some aircraft have gold-tinted canopies?
o Section D.7: Why do USAF aircraft have tailhooks?
o Section D.8: Can X aircraft operate from a carrier?
o Section D.9: Did a C-130 land on a carrier? How about a U-2?
o Section D.10: The composition of an aircraft carrier's air wing
o Section D.11: Why do the USAF/USN use incompatible refuelling
systems?
o Section D.12: Aircraft designations

* Part E: Aircraft Carriers
o Section E.1: Which aircraft carriers are in service?
o Section E.2: What happened to the former USSR's aircraft
carriers?
o Section E.3: Composition of a carrier battle group
o Section E.4: Major carrier fires since WWII
o Section E.5: Naming of USS Franklin
o Section E.6: Was USS Franklin repaired after she was nearly lost
in 1945?
o Section E.7: Decommissioning/disposal of older US carriers
o Section E.8: The mysterious LPH 1
o Section E.9: Why starboard side islands?
o Section E.10: USN plans for future carriers
o Section E.11: The Royal Navy's Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF)
Program

* Part F: Surface Combatants
o Section F.1: Status of the Iowa class battleships
o Section F.2: Grounding of USS Missouri in 1950
o Section F.3: Decommissioning/disposal of US cruisers (CG/CGN)
during the 1990's.
o Section F.4: Meaning of warship types, i.e. "frigate","cruiser"
and "destroyer"
o Section F.5: The wrecks of Scapa Flow
o Section F.6: Royal Navy losses during the Falkands War
o Section F.7: Aluminum in warship construction
o Section F.8 The 1975 reclassification of US cruisers, frigates
and ocean escorts
o Section F.9: The destroyer disaster at Honda Point, CA in 1923
o Section F.10: The "stealth ship", Sea Shadow
o Section F.11: Alaska class: large cruisers or battlecruisers?
o Section F.12: Long Beach's Guns, and guns on "all missile" ships
o Section F.13: Ships damaged in the Persian Gulf
o Section F.14: Gun Calibers

* Part G: Submarines
o Section G.1: How are old nuclear submarines being disposed of?
o Section G.2: Why are relatively modern subs being taken out of
service?
o Section G.3: What is the future of US ballistic missile subs
(SSBN)?
o Section G.4: What happened to USS Thresher and USS Scorpion?
o Section G.5: Can someone list accidents involving nuclear
submarines?
o Section G.6: The Seawolf class
o Section G.7: Salvage of German WWII U-Boats
o Section G.8: US Covert operations submarines
o Section G.9 Why don't the US, UK and France use diesel-electric
subs?
o Section G.10: The Russian 200 knot torpedo
o Section G.11: Soviet/Russian "Akula" and "Typhoon" classes
o Section C.12: Project Jennifer, Glomar Explorer, HMB-1, and the
"Golf"-class SSB

* Part H: Age of Sail & Historic Ships
o Section H.1: What is hogging?
o Section H.2: Status, condition and restoration of USS
Constitution
o Section H.3: Controversy about the history of the
frigate/sloop-of-war USS Constellation
o Section H.4: Restoration of the Sloop-of-War USS Constellation
o Section H.5: Sailing Ship Rig Types & Classifications

END CONTENTS


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