What is used in naval warfare?

Answer 1

Since this question was put into the World War 2 Category I will try to answer your question based on then and now.

In World War 2 the Navy lost a good deal of their Naval Fleet when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Of the ships that survived or repaired or built new the Navy used Destroyers, Battle Ships, Fletchers (medium sized ships that could hunt subs) aircraft carriers, tanker ships that supplied fuel for the ships, PT Boats that were about the size of the coast guard ships you see on television, escort ships to escort the aircraft carriers around the Pacific Ocean. small landing boats called Higgins Boats that could land the Marines and Army Soldiers on the islands or on the Beaches in France, Africa, Norway, Africa, LST boats that could carry Jeeps, tanks and other equipment.

They had some boats and tanks that could work as both "cars" and swimming tanks and boats. They were called Ducks. I can't remember what the tanks were called that could operate in the ocean and on land.

There were a lot more boats than that but that is the basic list of what the Navy used in World War 2. They also used many types of airplanes that took off from aircraft carriers and the landing strips on the islands.

In today's US Navy they do not have battleships because they were rendered as being "not useful anymore" because the Aircraft Carriers of today can do way more than any destroyer or battle ship could back in World War 2. We do still have destroyers though. We have many types of submarines now. We have ships that are large cargo ships we like to call "Roll On Roll Off" ships. One end of the RORO ships open up with a large ramp. They can haul tanks, Hummers, large vehicles of most types used by all the US Military forces and a lot of heavy cargo.

There are fewer large tanker ships to supply fuel to ships and smaller boats for the Navy because many of our large ships and subs are nuclear power.

If you would like to see what the Navy has today you can go to their web site. On the search engines you can often find photos of ships too. Type in US Naval Ships on your search engines.

Aah, I forgot to tell you they have large guns, missiles, person weapons, bombs and other weapons on the Naval ships and planes. Today's ships have the capability of firing missiles that can be fired from the ships many miles from their target and have the missile land right on the spot they need to reach. The airplanes can do the same thing and some planes cannot be seen by the human eye or some radar scopes of the enemy.