USNS Black Powder information

USNS Black Powder (T-AGSE-1) is a Black Powder-class submarine support vessel acquired by the U.S. Navy in 2015 and assigned to Military Sealift Command...

SS Antares (T-AKR-294) USNS Assurance (T-AGOS-5) MV Atlantic Freighter USNS Audacious (T-AGOS-11) MV Baffin Strait (T-AK W9519) SS Beaver State (T-ACS-10) USNS Bellatrix...

USNS Arctic (T-AOE-8), a Supply-class fast combat support ship USNS John Lewis (T-AO-205), a replenishment oiler and the lead ship of her class USNS Loyal (T-AGOS-22)...

Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces less smoke and less fouling when fired compared to black powder. Because...

(AGSC-15), ex-YF-854 Black Powder-class USNS Black Powder (T-AGSE-1) [A] USNS Westwind (T-AGSE-2) [A] USNS Eagleview (T-AGSE-3) [A] USNS Arrowhead (T-AGSE-4)...

USNS Westwind (T-AGSE-2) is a Black Powder-class submarine and special warfare support vessel acquired by the U.S. Navy in 2015 and assigned to the US...

replaced by smokeless powder of nitrocellulose or similarly nitrated organic compounds.: 287–330  The oldest gun propellant was black powder, a low explosive...

planned Shenandoah-class destroyer tender, was cancelled USNS Arrowhead (T-AGSE-4), a Black Powder-class support vessel. This article includes a list of...

Wind-class icebreaker of the United States Coast Guard. USNS Westwind (T-AGSE-2), a Black Powder-class support vessel. This article includes a list of ships...

USNS Paoli (T-AO-157) was a Gettysburg-class fuel tanker, built at Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pennsylvania. A Type T2–SE–A1 tanker, it...

USNS Arrowhead (T-AGSE-4) is a submarine support vessel acquired by the U.S. Navy in 2015 and assigned to Military Sealift Command. Arrowhead was built...

USNS Eagleview (T-AGSE-3) is a submarine support vessel acquired by the U.S. Navy in 2015 and assigned to Military Sealift Command. Eagleview was built...

The United States military replaced black powder during the first decade of the 20th century with smokeless powders formulated from nitrocellulose colloided...

which used an early smokeless powder, was semi-rimless, and fired a 135-grain (later 112-grain) jacketed bullet. The 6mm U.S.N. or Lee Navy Cartridge was...

problem with black-powder loadings because black powder could be ignited by as little energy as a static electricity discharge. Smokeless powder often required...

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Tank Landing Ship Medium#Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) "Meet the Fleet – USNS LSM-335". Sealift Magazine. Vol. 14, no. 8. Washington, D.C.: Military Sea...

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the British Cordite, German WASAG and Soviet PTP propellants. Hercules Powder Company was the principal U.S. supplier of high performance extruded Ballistite...

Liberty ship named SS Amelia Earhart was launched, it was wrecked in 1948. USNS Amelia Earhart was named in her honor in May 2007. A small section of Earhart's...

the gunpowder to be used in the rifle's cartridges, which led to rapid powder fouling of the action and failures to extract or feed cartridges. This decision...

the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) and placed in service as USNS Parkersburg (T-AO-163). On 27 September 1957 she was returned to the Maritime...

Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) (later Military Sealift Command) as USNS Saugatuck (T-AOT-75) with a civilian crew on its establishment in October...

1947. To Military Sea Transportation Service in 1949 as USNS Cowanesque (T-AO-79), later USNS Cowanesque (T-AOT-79). Sunk off Okinawa, Japan on 23 April...

length as the .300 Savage. Although shorter than the .30-06, meaning less powder capacity, the T65 cartridge retained the ballistics and energy of the .30-06...

Sea Transportation Service (now the Military Sealift Command) to serve as USNS Tallulah (T-AO-50), later redesignated T-AOT-50. Manned by a civilian crew...

Maritime Administration, assigned to MSTS, and placed in-service as the USNS Bull Run (T-AO-156). She left the navy in 1957, going back to the Maritime...