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* The research vessel ''[http://www.jamstec.go.jp/chikyu/eng/CHIKYU/tour.html Chikyu Hakken]'' - a Japanese geological research vessel that can drill ''6000-metre-deep holes in the ocean floor''.
* The new British Type 45 ''Daring''-class destroyers, with the radar cross-section of a fishing trawler. Even if it doesn't have all the weapons it can carry fitted. [["Join the Army," They Said|Began appearing in the recruitment ads even before the first one was commissioned]].
* The Russian nuclear-powered "''Kirov''" class [https://web.archive.org/web/20010823152817/http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/fleet/russian/1144.htm heavy cruisers]. 20 anti-shipping missiles, four different kinds of surface-to-air missiles (up to 476 rounds can be carried, 340 ready to fire at any one time), 10 torpedo tubes, [[Gatling Good|CIWS systems]] and a rapid-firing 130mm twin cannon. Bigger than some light aircraft carriers. A living example of [[More Dakka]]. She also has a SIGINT profile compared a Disney-style Christmas Tree with all candles blazing and all mechanical gnomes singing Jingle Bells at maximum volume. In Russian, of course.
* The ''Iowa'' class battleships. That is all.
** To clarify, and distinguish this example from the previous mention of the ''Iowa'' Class, in 1984 Ronald Reagan was signifigantly increasing the size of the US Navy. One target of this increase were the four ''Iowa'' Class Battleships, which had all been mothballed since the New Jersey provided fire support during the Vietnam War. The ships were put through an extensive refit, completly gutting the old systems and modernizing the ships. After the refit, the Battleships were arguably the best warships the world has ever, and ever will, see, with the old armament of 16" and 5" guns being supplemented by Tomahawk and Harpoon missiles, Phalanx cannons, and a helipad complete with a Sea Sprite ASW helicopter.
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== When you are saving the whales... ==
* It definitely helps to have [https://web.archive.org/web/20091023033620/http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-091020-1.html a boat that you'd expect Batman to have.]
** [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/08/2787921.htm Until it got sunk].
** Not to mention now forever stuck in our memories with [[Never Live It Down|a bad paintjob,and being called the Bat-mobile]].
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