Navy

Under Navy one understands naval forces of a state also Warships, Auxiliary ships and other assigned portions how Naval pilots, Naval infantry, support and training facilities. Besides is the term Merchant fleet common for the whole of all Trading vessels a country and the administration due to it. For Germany kind regulates. 27 Basic Law: "all German kauffahrteischiffe form a uniform merchant fleet."

In many countries those become beside the merchant fleet Fischereiflotte and the research fleet as independent units regards.

The term navy leads itself of word marinus, to duly, off (compares also marine). The first organized marine ones were with that , and Romans to find. In the German linguistic usage one means the part that specialized in the military tasks in lake with navy German Federal Armed Forces, to the demarcation approximately Army and Air Force.

Within more militarily marine ones becomes usually organizational between or several Flotten and the supporting elements as for instance bases, schools etc.. differentiated. In that German navy latter portions the board of admiralty are zugrordnet, during all task forces to water, to country and in air the fleet command are subordinate. Large marine ones have several fleets, like z.B. those U. S. Navy with their operated fleets (2., 3., 5., 6. and 7. Quick one) or those navy with the Pacific -, that black sea, the North Sea and the Baltic fleet.

Those Ranks in the navy other designations than those of the army or the Air Force have. The military designations are partly ajar against those the merchant fleet.

1 Marine different countries and epochs
- 1.1 Germany
- 1.2 Other countries
2 See also

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