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Glossary of Naval Skills Terms

AGM-a military designation for an air-launched guided missile craft, usually flat-bottomed, unpowered, and towed by other craft,
designed to attack smface targets. used for transporting raw materials, freight, or liquids.
AIM-a military designation for an air-launched air-intercept base surge-the initial surge of radioactive spray, debris, and dust
guided missile. caused by the explosion of a nuclear weapon on or ncar Earth's
surface.
airfoil-surl'lCe of a body in flight.
beam-extreme width of a ship or boat.
airframe-all external parts of an airplane or missile.
bearing-direction of an object ii'om an observer, measured
air-la-air missile-a missile designed to be used in air-to-air war-
clod,'wise from one of three reference directions: true north, mag-
fare.
netic north, or the ship's head.
air-la-surface missile-a missile designed to be fired from air-
biological warfare-the military use of living organisms or toxins
borne plattorms against ground targets.
to infect target personnel.
almanac-a periodic publication of variable astronomical infor-
boat etiquette-the naval customs and traditions pertaining to
mation.
small boats.
anchorage-an area assigned for anchoring ships.
boat officer---cmbarked officer ill charge of a small boat under
antiballistic missile (ABM)-missile llsed in defense against illCOIll-
certain circumstances.
ing ballistic missiles.
bollard-a single large post on a pier, used in securing a ship's
antiradiation missile-missile designed to home ill on radiations
mooring lines.
emitted from enem), weapons or traclUng sites.
bridge-one or more platforms or compartments on the upper
area defense-protection of an entire formation of ships or land
superstructl1l'e of a ship from which the operations of the ship
or sea area.
and its aircraft arc directed.
armament-weapons of a ship or aircraft.
caliber- in naval guns up to 3 inches in diameter, the diameter of
ASROC-antisubmarine rocket, fitted with either a homing tor- the bore in inches or millimeters; in guns larger than 3 inches, the
pedo or nuclear depth bomb warhead. length of the gun in inches divided by the bore diameter.
atomic time-time reckoned by the use of an atomic clock, usually capstan-a rotating drum of a winch that raises an anchor cable
cesi unl-based. or other he;wy weight.
attack plane-multiweapon aircraft that can carry bombs, torpe- captor mine-a mine consisting of an encapsulated homing tor-
does, or rockets. pedo suspended above the sea bottom, activated by the acoustic or
aulonomous underwaler vehicle (AUV)-a self-propelled under- magnetic signature of a passing ship or submarine.
water vehicle that can perform underwater searches for mines or case ammunition-propellant charge for naval gUlls packed in a
other objects without external guidance. metal case, placed in a gun barrel just behind the projectile.
ballistic missile-missile that goes all a free-falling path aner a cavitation-disturbance around rotating propeller blades and their
powered and guided ascent. shafts and struts, caused by collapse of pressure bubbles resulting
from water flow over their surfaces.
ballistics- the study of flight characteristics of projectiles in ii'ce
fall. CBR warfare-chemical, biological, or nuclear (radiological) war-
fare.
barge-in the case of boats, any small craft used for transport-
ing officers senior to a ship's captain; in cargo hauling, a long large

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