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Naval History and Heritage Command
The Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC), also the Naval Historical Center until 2008, is the U.S. Navy's Echelon II historical command at the Washington Navy Yard, managing ten museums, USS Constitution, archives, DANFS, and the Sunken Military Craft Act program.
Naval history of World War II
Naval history of World War II: the 1939-1945 war at sea in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific; convoy battles against U-boats, the rise of the aircraft carrier over the battleship, and Allied victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), known until 2019 as SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, is a United States Navy research laboratory in San Diego, California.
Naval Kishore Press
Naval Kishore Press, also written Nawal Kishore Press, is a publishing house founded in 1858 in Lucknow by Munshi Naval Kishore, who issued about 5,000 titles in six languages.
Naval mine
A naval mine, also called a sea mine, is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy vessels or deny enemy access, used since the American Revolution.
Naval Oceanographic Office
The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), renamed from the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in 1962, is the Navy's principal oceanographic command, based in Mississippi and tracing its origins to 1830.
Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign
Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign: British and French attempts, February–March 1915, to force the Dardanelles strait by ships alone; halted on 18 March 1915 after mines sank Bouvet, Irresistible, and Ocean, leading to the Gallipoli landings.
Naval Port of Karlskrona
Naval Port of Karlskrona (Örlogsstaden Karlskrona), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998: a planned 1680 Swedish naval city by Erik Dahlbergh, with active naval base, shipyard, and fortifications.
Naval Postgraduate School
The Naval Postgraduate School, founded in 1909, is the United States Navy's graduate university in Monterey, California, offering master's and doctoral degrees in defense-focused fields.
Naval Ravikant (नवल रविकंत)
Naval Ravikant (नवल रविकंत) is an Indian-born American entrepreneur and angel investor, born in Delhi, who co-founded Epinions, Vast.com, and AngelList and invested in more than 100 startups including Twitter and Uber.
Naval Research Laboratory
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, operating in Washington, D.C. since 1923.
Naval Research Laboratory Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research
The Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) is a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory facility in Washington, D.C., opened in 2012 for Navy and Marine Corps autonomous systems research.
Naval ship
A naval ship, also called a military ship, is a vessel belonging to a state's armed forces, built or armed for military service at sea.
Naval Special Forces (Malaysia)
PASKAL (Pasukan Khas Laut), the Royal Malaysian Navy's naval special forces, established 1 October 1982 at Lumut; maritime counter-terrorism, EEZ and oil-rig protection, with Unit 2 at KD Sri Semporna, Sabah.
Naval Station Great Lakes
Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, opened July 1, 1911, and hosts Recruit Training Command, the U.S. Navy's only boot camp, plus NSTC headquarters and technical schools; it trained about 1 million WWII sailors and was retained by the 1993 BRAC round.
Naval Station Newport
Naval Station Newport is a United States Navy base on Aquidneck Island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, established in 1883 and home to the Naval War College and undersea warfare research.
Naval Station Norfolk
Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Virginia, is the world's largest naval base and primary Atlantic Fleet homeport. Established 1917 on the 1907 Jamestown Exposition site; about 6,200 acres, 13 piers, roughly 67,000 personnel.
Naval Station Pearl Harbor
Naval Station Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii, was a U.S. Navy base established in 1908, home of the Pacific Fleet from 1940, site of the December 7, 1941 attack, and merged with Hickam Air Force Base into Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam in 2010.
Naval Strike Missile
The Naval Strike Missile, or Kongsberg NSM, is a long-range subsonic anti-ship and land-attack cruise missile developed by Norway's Kongsberg, chosen by the US Navy in 2018.
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, is the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's East Coast homeport for Ohio-class Trident SSBNs and two SSGNs, the only Atlantic base supporting the Trident II D-5 missile, established 1978 and transitioning to Columbia-class submarines.
Naval Submarine Base New London
Naval Submarine Base New London, also known as SUBASE New London, is a United States Navy submarine base in Groton, Connecticut, the Navy's first continental submarine base.
Naval Tata
Naval Hormusji Tata (1904–1989) was an Indian business executive and labor statesman who rose from clerk to Deputy Chairman of Tata Sons and was the father of Ratan Tata.
Naval War College
The Naval War College, founded in 1884 at Newport, Rhode Island, is the United States Navy's graduate institution for the advanced study of war, home of Alfred Thayer Mahan's sea power doctrine and pioneering wargaming.
Naval warfare
Naval warfare: armed conflict in which at least one side operates from the sea with surface ships, submarines, or sea-based aircraft; also called maritime warfare. Covers sea control, sea denial, power projection, the six warfare tasks, and the shift toward drones and missiles.
Navalny (Навальный)
Navalny (Навальный) is Daniel Roher's 2022 CNN Films/HBO Max documentary about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after his 2020 Novichok poisoning, his investigation into the FSB, and his January 2021 return; it won the 2023 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
Navan
Navan (Irish: An Uaimh) is the county town of County Meath, Ireland, at the confluence of the Boyne and Blackwater rivers about 50 km northwest of Dublin.
Navantia
Navantia is a Spanish state-owned military shipbuilding group under the holding company SEPI, created in 2005 from IZAR, building F-110 frigates and S-80 submarines for the Spanish Navy.
Navarasa
Navarasa (நவரசா) is a 2021 Tamil-language Netflix anthology of nine short films, each based on one classical rasa, produced by Mani Ratnam and Jayendra Panchapakesan as a COVID-19 fundraiser for FEFSI film workers.
Navaratna (नवरत्न)
Navaratna (नवरत्न), also called Nabaratna, is an Indian jewelry arrangement of nine gemstones, each corresponding to one of the nine celestial bodies of Vedic astrology.
Navaratna Raja Mrganga Rasa
Navaratna Raja Mrganga Rasa (नवरत्नराजमृगाङ्क रस), also Navaratna Raja Mriganka Rasa, is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral tablet from Yogaratnakara combining mercury, sulphur, metal and gem bhasmas with herbs, used as a rasayana for Vata disorders and tuberculosis.