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Examples
of Vessels in the Armed Forces Subject to UNDS
Army Vessel Classification
| Vessel Type |
Mission |
| * Lighterage |
Transport equipment, cargo, and personnel between
ships, from ship to shore, or for operational mission support. |
| * Floating Utility |
Perform port terminal operations. |
Navy Vessel Classification
| Vessel Type |
Mission |
| * Aircraft Carriers |
Provide air combat support to the fleet with landing
and launch platform for airplanes and helicopters. |
| * Surface Combatants |
Provide air defense, missile defense, antisubmarine
warfare support, merchant and carrier group protection, independent
patrol operations, and tactical support of land-based forces. |
| * Amphibious Ships |
Provide a landing and take-off platform for aircraft,
primarily helicopters, and a means for launching and recovering
smaller landing craft. |
| * Submarines |
Provide strategic missile defense, search and
rescue, and research and survey capability. |
| * Auxiliaries |
Provide logistical support, such as underway replenishment,
material support, and rescue and salvage operations. |
| * Mine Warfare Ships |
Conduct minesweeping missions to find and destroy
mines. |
| * Small Boats and Service Craft |
Provide a variety of services. Includes: patrol
training craft (YP), tug boats (YTB), torpedo trials craft (YTT),
landing craft, barges, transport boats, personnel boats, harbor
patrol boats, work boats, utility boats, floating drydocks,
and rigid inflatable boats. |
| * Inactive Assets |
Vessels in various states of readiness, the majority
of which are scheduled for scrapping, transfer to MARAD, or
sale to foreign nations. |
Air Force Vessel Classification
| Vessel Type |
Mission |
| * Floating Utility |
Used for personnel and utility transport, training,
and repair operations. |
Marine Corps Vessel Classification
| Vessel Type |
Mission |
| * RRC |
Perform offensive amphibious operations. |
| * CRRC |
Perform offensive amphibious operations. |
Military Sealift Command
Vessel Classification
| Vessel Type |
Mission |
| * SMSF |
Support the Armed Forces in specialized missions
such as undersea surveillance, missile range tracking, oceanographic
and hydrographic surveys, acoustic research, and submarine escort. |
| * NFAF |
Provide underway replenishment services (i.e.,
deliver fuel, food, spare parts, equipment, and ammunition)
to Navy surface combatants, as well as ocean towing and salvage
services. |
Coast Guard Vessel
Classification
| Vessel
Type |
Mission |
| * Cutters |
Provide multi-mission capability, including patrol,
air defense search and rescue, and drug interdiction. |
| * Tenders |
Used to maintain inland, river, coastal, and offshore
buoys and navigational aids, and to serve as construction platforms. |
| * Icebreakers |
Support the winter icebreaking efforts in order
to maintain open waterways in the Arctic, Antarctic, and the
northern regions of the U.S. including the Great Lakes, Northwest,
and Northeast. |
| * Tugboats |
Provide towing and support services (icebreaking,
search and rescue, and law enforcement) to other vessels. |
| * Small Boats and Crafts |
Used in harbors and inland waters for drug interdiction,
port security, cable repair, maintenance of navigation aids,
patrolling for illegal dumping, search and rescue, etc. In addition,
they are used in rough surf for search and rescue, for inland
river and lake patrol, as transports, and for fire fighting. |
| * Other Vessels |
Sailing cutters and other vessels used for training. |
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