naval forces
Seaborne armed services
Naval forces are a nation's military assets for warfare at sea—warships, submarines, aircraft carriers, and the personnel who operate them.
The term encompasses both the vessels themselves and the organizational structure commanding them: The naval forces were deployed to the strait.
Distinguished from army and air force by their maritime domain.
- admiralSenior naval commander
- aircraft carrierWarship with flight deck
- carrier strike groupWarship formation centered on flattop
- battleshipArmored naval capital vessel
- corvetteLight, fast warship
blockade · destroyer · captain · cruiser · submarine · dockyard · commodore · command structure · minesweeper · Spanish Armada · patrol boat · battle stations · petty officer · Pearl Harbor attack · combat readiness · sailor · chain of command · frigate
- Asian MilitariesPLAN, Gurkhas
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, generals
- military branchesArmy, army, marines, coast guard, National Guard
- military forcesarmy, soldiers, troops, militias, reserve army
- naval warfarebattleship, destroyer, sea battles, warship, cruiser
- Canadian MilitaryCanadian Army, DND, military branches, service branches, army reserve
naval forcesground troops
Soldiers operating on land
land forces · ground forces · army · infantry · air forces
naval forcescivilian population
merchant marine · commercial shipping · non-combatants · merchant fleet · coast guard