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Navajo Sandstone
The Navajo Sandstone is a light-colored, cross-bedded Jurassic sandstone deposited by ancient dunes across the Colorado Plateau, forming the slickrock cliffs of Zion National Park.
Navajo Stirling
Navajo Stirling (Rongotehengia Navajo Hunter Stirling, born 1997), New Zealand UFC light heavyweight from City Kickboxing, Auckland; undefeated 11-0 with 7 KOs, TKO wins over Błachowicz and Cutelaba, ranked #5, faces Procházka in November 2026.
Navajo Transitional Energy Company
Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) is a coal mining company wholly owned by the Navajo Nation, created in 2013 and owner of the Navajo Mine in New Mexico.
Navajo Wars
The Navajo Wars were armed conflicts between the Navajo (Diné) people and Spain, Mexico, and the United States, ending with the Treaty of 1868 that let the Navajo return home.
Navajo weaving
Navajo weaving, also called Navajo rug or blanket making, is the hand-loomed textile tradition of the Diné (Navajo) people, practiced since the early 1600s on an upright loom.
Naval Academy
The Naval Academy (Морская академия) was a military school in St. Petersburg founded by Peter I in 1715 to train officers for the Russian fleet.
Naval air station
A naval air station is a military air base operated by a navy for its aviation branch. The first permanent US station opened at Pensacola, Florida, in 1914.
Naval Air Station Brunswick
Naval Air Station Brunswick (NAS Brunswick) was a US Navy base in Brunswick, Maine, hosting P-3C Orion anti-submarine patrol squadrons until it closed in 2011 under the 2005 BRAC process.
Naval Air Station Fallon
Naval Air Station Fallon (NAS Fallon) is a United States Navy air station in Churchill County, Nevada, home of TOPGUN and the pre-deployment training site for carrier air wings.
Naval Air Station Jacksonville
Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NAS Jacksonville, NAS Jax) is a US Navy master air and industrial base in Jacksonville, Florida, established in 1940 and specializing in anti-submarine warfare.
Naval Air Station North Island
Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI) is a US Navy air station on North Island in San Diego Bay, California, commissioned in 1917 and known as the "Birthplace of Naval Aviation".
Naval Air Station Patuxent River
Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NAS Patuxent River, Pax River) is a US Navy base in St. Mary's County, Maryland, commissioned in 1943 as the Navy's principal naval aviation test center.
Naval Air Station Sigonella
Naval Air Station Sigonella (NAS Sigonella) is a United States Navy air base near Catania in Sicily, Italy, known as "The Hub of the Med".
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NAS Whidbey Island) is a US Navy air station near Oak Harbor, Washington, commissioned in 1942 and the Navy's sole naval aviation installation in the Pacific Northwest.
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake is a US Navy installation in California's Mojave Desert, its largest landholding, and the site where the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile was developed.
Naval architecture
Naval architecture, also called ship design or marine architecture, is the engineering discipline covering the design, construction, and operation of ships, submarines, and other floating structures.
Naval artillery
Naval artillery, also called naval gunnery, is the class of heavy guns mounted on warships, the main armament from the age of sail to the battleship era.
Naval aviation
Naval aviation, also called Navy aviation, is the branch of a navy's air power that operates fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft from ships at sea and shore bases.
Naval Base San Diego
Naval Base San Diego is the principal homeport of the U.S. Pacific Fleet's surface ships, located on the eastern shore of San Diego Bay in California.
Naval Battle of Buceo
The Naval Battle of Buceo was a May 1814 naval victory off Montevideo in which Guillermo Brown's squadron destroyed Spanish naval power in the Río de la Plata.
Naval Battle of Casablanca
Naval Battle of Casablanca, 8–10 November 1942: US Task Force 34 under Admiral Hewitt versus Vichy French forces under Admiral Michelier during Operation Torch; Jean Bart duelled USS Massachusetts; over 460 French sailors killed.
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 12–15 November 1942: series of U.S.–Japanese night and carrier actions in Ironbottom Sound that defeated Japan's last major effort to reinforce Guadalcanal and seize Henderson Field, sinking the battleship Kirishima.
Naval campaign of the War of the Pacific
The naval campaign of the War of the Pacific was the 1879 struggle for sea control between Chile and Peru, ending with Chile's capture of the Huáscar at Angamos.
Naval campaign of William Brown
The naval campaign of William Brown (Campaña Naval de 1814) was the United Provinces' offensive against Spanish Montevideo, culminating in victory on 17 May 1814.
Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt
Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt, at North West Cape near Exmouth, Western Australia, is a joint Australian-US VLF station commissioned 16 September 1967, renamed for the vanished prime minister in 1968, transmitting to submarines and hosting space surveillance radars.
Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), the civilian federal law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of the Navy, investigates felony crime, counterintelligence, terrorism, and cyber threats for the Navy and Marine Corps from about 191 locations in over 41 countries.
Naval expedition of Narasimhavarman I to Sri Lanka
The naval expedition of Narasimhavarman I to Sri Lanka (நரசிம்மவர்மன் I) was a Pallava sea campaign, launched from Mamallapuram, that restored the exiled prince Manavamma to the throne.
Naval fleet
A naval fleet is a large organized formation of warships, submarines, and support vessels under one commander, divided into task forces for operations. Covers fleet organization, blue-water versus coastal fleets, and current sizes of the U.S. and UK fleets.
Naval flight officer
A naval flight officer (NFO) is a US Navy or Marine Corps officer who performs navigation, radar interception, and weapons-system duties in naval aircraft without flying the aircraft.
Naval Group
Naval Group, formerly DCNS and DCN, is a French state-majority-owned company headquartered in Paris that builds submarines and surface ships, prime contractor for France's nuclear deterrence fleet and a major submarine exporter.