Naval Technology Quotes

It would be a good occasion to begin a navy

The future navy will have two kinds of ships: Submarines and targets.

The United States has the largest and best navy in the world.

The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to.

The only weapon with which we can expect to cope with other great nations is the Navy.

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they may have the advantage, but we will be found to have equally great in others.

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

Battleships are cheaper than battles.

Modernizing the U.S. Navy is a key component of rebuilding our military.

You have by this time surely seen with your own eyes what your iron ships, with which you think you can accomplish wonders and on which you boast so much, can do against my junks; how one of them has been burned by one of my junks and has disappeared in smoke; how the others would have met with the same doom had they not taken to flight and gone out to sea.

Since the littoral combat ship plays a vital role, we want to make sure we're buying the correct version.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

If you look at say, England and Germany a century ago, which had the most advanced navies then, they were dealing with extremely tricky technological problems. Putting a huge gun on a moving platform and ensuring that it could hit another moving target was one of the hardest technical problems of the early twentieth century.

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

On shipbuilding, on submarine building, warship building, coastal surveillance or small vessel building, we have both public and private sector. The capacities have really been scaled up, and the skill sets, hi-tech skill sets, have been acquired.

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two dreadnoughts; and dukes are just as great a terror and they last longer.

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.

The Virginia class is an extremely successful program, and we'd like to keep it that way, and we're confident in our performance. But the Ohio replacement is a significantly larger ship.

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.