underwater warfare
Naval depth fighting
Underwater warfare encompasses military operations conducted beneath the water's surface—submarine attacks, mine laying, torpedo strikes, and countermeasures against them.
The term covers both offensive actions and defensive techniques like sonar detection and depth charges.
Underwater warfare revolutionized naval strategy in the 20th century.
- depth chargeTimed underwater anti-submarine munition
- periscopeAngled optical viewing tube
- crash diveSudden steep submersion
- battle stationsAssigned combat positions
- silent runningMoving undetected, soundlessly
torpedo · mine · frogmen · sonar · wolfpack · propeller · hull · naval mine · passive sonar · active sonar · stealth technology · pressure hull · detonation · nuclear submarine · cavitation · sonar navigation · submarine · ballast tank
- submarinessub, subs, torpedo, submarines, hull
- submarine warfaresubmarine, submarines, torpedo, U-boat, sonar
underwater warfareaerial warfare
Armed conflict aloft
air combat · air warfare · aerial combat · ground combat · space warfare
underwater warfareconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces