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Parent topics
- Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense [e]
Subtopics
- Torpedo [r]: A naval weapon that travels underwater, using its own propulsion, to attack its target, minimally with onboard mechanisms to keep it on a straight course. Modern torpedoes are underwater guided missiles that can track their target and adjust their course to hit it [e]
- Reconnaissance [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Reconnaissance (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Commerce raiding [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Destroyer [r]: While the definition has evolved constantly, it is a multipurpose surface warship with capabilities against ship, aircraft, submarine, land, and sometimes ballistic missile targets [e]
- Honor Harrington [r]: The central character in an extensive science fiction series created by David Weber, with considerable personality resemblances, although far higher technology, to Horatio Hornblower [e]
- Warship [r]: A ship designed to employ weapons and sensors in direct naval warfare [e]
