The United States demonstrated the capability to launch a ballistic missile from a surface ship nearly forty years ago.

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The DDG 1000 is a multimission surface ship designed to provide advanced land attack capability and contribute to military dominance in the shallow coastal waters known as the littorals.

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To pluck them from the ocean, Bezos used Remotely Operated Vehicles (underwater drones) operated from a command ship on the surface.

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Next, we are going to have our guys fly to the surface and back in a ship made of foil, then somehow dock with the orbiting craft, none of which has been tested in lunar orbit, fire another engine blast and get home, again without any steering, power or otherwise.

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Originally designed as a specialist anti-submarine ship, the Type 22 frigate evolved into a powerful surface combatant with substantial anti-surface, anti-submarine and anti-aircraft weapons systems.

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Originally designed as a specialist anti-submarine ship, the Type 22 frigates evolved into a powerful surface combatant with substantial anti-surface, anti-submarine and anti-aircraft weapons systems.

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To get the whole thing to the surface, a very long, very strong rope was attached to the captured chimney at one end and to floats at the other, and paid out until it reached the surface at which point a ship hauled up the booty.

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If a cable does fail, a repair ship is dispatched to lift both ends to the surface using grappling hooks and fuse the ends back together a slow, expensive process.

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The Russians have also been marketing to international customers a family of deadly sea-skimming anti-ship cruise missiles with air-, surface- and submarine-launched variants.

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