41.   The merged company would be the largest supplier of non-nuclear surface ships for the U.S. Navy.

42.   The news agency said the exercises involved scores of surface ships, nuclear and diesel-power submarines, and air forces.

43.   The Seahawk is designed to provide all-weather detection, classification, localisation and interdiction of surface ships and submarines.

44.   The two-month mission will mostly involve surface ships, he said, without providing other details.

45.   This normally would not interfere with operations, although conditions aboard a submarine are more crowded than aboard a surface ship.

46.   They can be fired either from surface ships or submarines.

47.   Yegiyev dismissed media speculation that the Kursk might have been sunken by a missile fired during the naval exercise or rammed by a surface ship of the Northern Fleet.

48.   After the end of the Cold War, the British government decided to remove the sub-strategic weapons from Royal Navy surface ships and RAF maritime patrol aircraft.

49.   Typically armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles, standard missiles, anti-submarine rockets and torpedos, the cruiser also can coordinate attacks by aircraft, other surface ships and submarines.

50.   Only three other countries -- Russia, Sweden and Germany -- have reached the North Pole with surface ships.