13-513: M36 , M-36 or M.36 may refer to: Military [ edit ] HMS Bicester (M36) , a Royal Navy mine countermeasures vessel M36 tank destroyer , a World War II and Korean War US Army tank destroyer M89SR sniper rifle , first introduced as the Sardius M36 Sniper Weapon System in the 1980s Bofors M36 , an anti-aircraft autocannon Bulgarian M36 helmet , of
26-662: A football at a distance of up to 1,000 metres (1,100 yd). In late 2007 Chiddingfold used the Seafox drone , the Royal Navy's mine disposal system, during Exercise Neptune Warrior off Scotland. Seafox is described by the MOD as a "state of the art fire and forget system, capable of destroying mines in depths of up to 300 metres" . The 2021 defence white paper announced that all the Hunt-class vessels would be retired from Royal Navy service in
39-504: A six year refurbishment programme that was completed in 2018. The capabilities of the remaining eight vessels of the Hunt class have been significantly enhanced by the installation of Sonar Type 2193 and the NAUTIS 3 command system. The performance of Sonar 2193 exceeds that of any other mine hunting sonar in service in the world today and is capable of detecting and classifying an object the size of
52-561: A state highway M36 (Cape Town) , a Metropolitan Route in Cape Town, South Africa M36 (Johannesburg) , a Metropolitan Route in Johannesburg, South Africa M36 (Pretoria) , a Metropolitan Route in Pretoria, South Africa M36 Highway (Kazakhstan) , part of AH7 (Asian Highway 7) Vehicles ICAR M.36 Comercial , a Willy Messerschmitt-designed airliner, of which one was built in
65-695: The River Clyde . Quorn was the last ship of the class launched. Following the sale of Bicester and Berkeley to the Greek Navy, the sale of Cottesmore and Dulverton to the Lithuanian Navy and the decommissioning of Brecon , a contract to re-engine the remaining eight vessels was signed by BAE Systems in 2008, whereby the existing 30-year old Napier Deltic 9-59K power units were replaced by Caterpillar CAT C32 engines, together with new gearboxes, bow thrusters, propellers and control systems, in
78-464: The 1930s New South Wales M36 class locomotive Progress M-36 , a Russian spacecraft Medicine and science [ edit ] Messier 36 , an open star cluster in the constellation Auriga M36, a sub-strain of the Vollum strain of the anthrax bacterium M36, a subclade of Haplogroup M (mtDNA) Other uses [ edit ] British NVC community M36 , a mire community; see Mires in
91-555: The 2020s and replaced by automated systems. It was subsequently indicated that the withdrawal would occur in the 2029 to 2031 period. In 2023, the navy began to take delivery of six REMUS 300 small autonomous underwater vehicles (SAUVs), produced by Huntington Ingalls Industries. The system is being acquired to enhance the capabilities of the Hunt -class ships and has a reported operating depth of 300 meters with an endurance time of up to 20 hours. All 13 ships of this class re-used names from
104-695: The British National Vegetation Classification system Symphony No. 3 (Szymanowski) , M36 in the Michałowski catalogue M36, an Egyptian hieroglyph; see List of Egyptian hieroglyphs § M36 M36, a metric screw thread standardised in ISO 965 See also [ edit ] 36M, a variant of the British Mills bomb hand grenade [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
117-649: The Bulgarian Army prior to and during World War II Panssarimiina m/36 , a Finnish anti-tank mine Skoda 75 mm Model 1936 (75 mm M.36), a mountain artillery gun M36, a variant of the US Army M35 series 2½-ton 6×6 cargo truck M36, the engine for the Leichttraktor , a German 1930s experimental tank M36 Burster, a warhead of the US Army M55 rocket M36 Captive Flight Training Missile, used for training on
130-670: The handling of the AGM-114 Hellfire Modell 1936, a German World War II uniform M36 Patrol Boat, Royal Thai navy patrol boat Transportation [ edit ] Airports and train stations Frank Federer Memorial Airport , see List of airports in Arkansas Jigozen Station , in Jigozen, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan Muroran Station , in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan Roads M-36 (Michigan highway) ,
143-524: The same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M36&oldid=1128666933 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages HMS Bicester (M36) HMS Bicester
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#1732848017644156-668: The separate roles of the traditional minesweeper and that of the active minehunter in one hull, but later modifications saw the removal of mine-sweeping equipment. They have a secondary role as offshore patrol vessels . Upon introduction in the early 1980s they were the largest warships ever built out of glass-reinforced plastic and were the last in operation to use the Napier Deltic diesel engine . All were built by Vosper Thornycroft in Woolston except Cottesmore and Middleton , which were built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited on
169-588: Was a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy . She was sold to the Greek Navy in 2001 as Europa . This article about a specific naval minesweeper of the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel The Hunt class is a class of thirteen mine countermeasure vessels of the Royal Navy . As built, they combined
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