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The Montana-class battleships were planned as successors of the Iowa class for the United States Navy, to be slower but larger, better armored, and with superior firepower.. Five were approved for construction during World War II, but changes in wartime building priorities resulted in their cancellation in favor of continuing production of Essex-class aircraft carriers and Iowa-class ...
Flank may refer to: Flank (anatomy), part of the abdomen Flank steak, a cut of beef; Part of the external anatomy of a horse; Flank speed, a nautical term; Flank opening, a chess opening; A term in Australian rules football; The side of a military unit, as in a flanking maneuver; Flanking, a sound path in architectural acoustics
A signal passed at danger (SPAD) [1]: 75 is an event on a railway where a train passes a stop signal without authority. [2] This is also known as running a red, in the United States as a stop signal overrun (SSO) [3] and in Canada as passing a stop signal. [4]
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Flank Speed: [3] Set of 40 models, released on September 1, 2009. Introduces Soviet and New Zealander warships. Condition Zebra: Set of 40 models, released on June 8 ...
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The gas turbine propulsion plants also allowed the ship's speed to be controlled directly from the bridge via a throttle control, a first for the U.S. Navy. American shipyards constructed Oliver Hazard Perry-class ships for the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Early American-built Australian ships were originally built as the ...
Because the word “flank” usually refers to the “side” of something, and because the earliest sailing warships had all their cannons facing either port or starboard, and even later WWI and WWII ships had the most firepower turned 90 degrees to the target, with nothing official to base this on, I always thought/assumed that ”flank speed” originally meant absolute maximum speed in ...