History Main / SpaceNavy

** The Rebel Fleet and Imperial Navy in [[Film/ANewHope the]] [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Original]] [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Trilogy]] and ''Film/RogueOne''. Though the heroes were more outside the power-structure of just the Rebel Fleet, being able to function in different capacities. In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', AscendedExtra [[Literature/XWingSeries Wedge Antilles]] has his adventures in a pure Navy-setting. Interestingly, while it would appear that fighter units use naval ranks (Luke is mentioned as a ''Commander''), there are also several generals, implying a separate army.
** The Republic's Navy in the [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Prequel]] [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Trilogy]] and ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''.
** The First Order's Navy in [[Film/TheForceAwakens the]] [[Film/TheLastJedi Sequel]] [[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker Trilogy]].

** The Rebel Fleet and Imperial Navy in the Original Trilogy. Though the heroes were more outside the power-structure of just the Rebel Fleet, being able to function in different capacities. In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', AscendedExtra [[Literature/XWingSeries Wedge Antilles]] has his adventures in a pure Navy-setting. Interestingly, while it would appear that fighter units use naval ranks (Luke is mentioned as a ''Commander''), there are also several generals, implying a separate army.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The Rebel Fleet and Imperial Navy in the Original Trilogy. Though the heroes were more outside the power-structure of just the Rebel Fleet, being able to function in different capacities. In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', AscendedExtra [[Literature/XWingSeries Wedge Antilles]] has his adventures in a pure Navy-setting. Interestingly, while it would appear that fighter units use naval ranks (Luke is mentioned as a ''Commander''), there are also several generals, implying a separate army.

* ''Literature/{{Nameless War}}'' plays this extremely straight, with a navy style command structure while ship classifications take their cue from the World War One / Two time period.

** On December 20 2019, the United States Space Force (USSF) was officially established as an independent branch of the United States military. However, it is still funded under the Department of the Air Force, much as the Marine Corps is funded under the Department of the Navy, and its current members are all former Air Force personnel.

* ''LightNovel/CrestOfTheStars'', though it become more prominent in the sequels.

* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''

* ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'': The Successor States and the Clans have their own space navy, but they are not as highlighted as mechwarriors. Since the fall of the Star League, the manufacturing of warships and jumpships have been crippled, with the production of the formers destroyed. Recently newer warships are now being produced, and dropships have been redesigned into pocket-warships.

* ''Literature/SpaceAcademyDropouts'': Space Fleet is the galaxy’s largest collection of peacekeepers, explorers, and scientists. It is made up of member ships from each race and there are crew members from multiple species serving on other species ships.

* "Machinima/RedVsBlue" is a Web series that has two Space Armies fighting against each other, though most of the fighting involves no action whatsoever, and the two squads the series is focused on seem to get along fine.

* ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' has two sides going to war with eachother: The Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance. Each side has over 200,000 warships and can easily hit the other from 4 million miles away. An average full fleet consists of about 12,000 ships. A commodore controls more ships than real life fleet admirals do.

*** More correctly, only commissioned officers can be pilots. Enlisted personnel would often see combat as [[GuyInBack defensive gunners, radio operators, flight engineers, and other technician specialties]][[note]] There's also the Air Force's "Special Tactics" personnel, including but not limited to Pararescue Jumpers, who engage in ground combat[[/note]], but generally only on bombers. Single- or two-seat fighters won't have those crew positions. Meanwhile, the ground crews will be made up almost entirely of enlisted airmen.

%%* ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes''

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. The Tri-World Federation has Spacefleet (not Starfleet because no-one's been outside the Solar System yet). Captain Janeway isn't happy about this trope however.
->'''Janeway:''' I never understood why Spacefleet has to follow naval traditions. The pioneer aviators who were the first to leave the surface of the Earth: UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart, Chuck Yeager, the [[UsefulNotes/TheWrightBrothers Wright brothers]]--those are the ones we should look to for inspiration.

* Every particular race in the ''VideoGame/{{X}}-Universe'' has their own SpaceNavy, including the [[ThouShaltNotKill normally peaceful]] [[FishPeople Boron]] and [[ProudMerchantRace mercantile]] [[TheReptilians Teladi]], but the [[PlanetTerra Terran]] United Space Command and the [=AGI=] Task Force take the cake. The former is a huge naval arm that serves as the primary force for the Terran State while the latter is a special forces branch dedicated to searching and eliminating any [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AGI-controlled ship]] that dare to enter Terran territory, hence their name. The space-based [[MegaCorp MegaCorps]], such as [=OTAS=] and Strong Arms, also have their own private navies to protect their assets from [[SpacePirates pirates]], the [[AIIsACrapshoot Xenon]], the [[BeePeople Kha'ak]], other rival governments, and each other themselves for rivalry-based CorporateWarfare.

** The most notable of these on-paper ideas -- and the closest we ever got to a real-life space navy -- were the USAF proposals to weaponize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]], the TropeNamer for the OrionDrive. Kennedy himself is said to have been ''terrified'' by these proposals, and for good reason. One of them was the [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship 4000 ton Orion Battleship]]. It would come packed with three 5 inch naval guns together with six 20mm CIWS turrets -- but that's only the secondary armament. The primary armament would consist of 500 twenty megaton conventional nukes, and an unspecified ammount of Casaba Howitzers: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_shaped_charge nukes that focus their explosion]] into a [[WaveMotionGun narrow, destructive beam]]. The other proposal was even more terrifying: an unmanned version of the Orion Battleship with much of its crew and weapons compartment replaced with a ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/william-black/art/Doomsday-Orion-504250808 massive]]'' 3 gigaton hydrogen bomb. For reference, detonating such a warhead would be like detonating every nuke in the world's current arsenal.[[note]]watch [[https://youtu.be/JyECrGp-Sw8 this]] video by WebAnimation/{{Kurzgesagt}} to get an idea of what ''that'' would be like[[/note]] It was the largest nuclear warhead ever proposed by a nation's military. Thankfully, none of this ever got close to being built due to not only international treaties banning nuclear detonations in space, but also mutual fears of escalating the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to the point of space combat. However, the designs were realistic -- they could have been built.

** The most notable of these on-paper ideas -- and the closest we ever got to a real-life space navy -- were the USAF proposals to weaponize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]], the TropeNamer for the OrionDrive. Kennedy himself is said to have been ''terrified'' by these proposals, and for good reason. One of them was the [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship 4000 ton Orion Battleship]], equipped with six hypersonic landing boats, a secondary armament of three 5 inch naval guns together with six 20mm CIWS turrets and a primary armament of not only 500 twenty megaton conventional nukes, but also an unspecified ammount of Casaba Howitzers: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_shaped_charge nukes that focus their explosion]] into a [[WaveMotionGun narrow, destructive beam]]. The other proposal was even more terrifying: an unmanned version of the Orion Battleship with much of its crew and weapons compartment replaced with a ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/william-black/art/Doomsday-Orion-504250808 massive]]'' 3 gigaton hydrogen bomb. For reference, detonating such a warhead would be like [[https://youtu.be/JyECrGp-Sw8 detonating every nuke in the world's current arsenal]]. It was the largest nuclear warhead ever proposed by a nation's military. Thankfully, none of this ever got close to being built due to not only international treaties banning nuclear detonations in space, but also mutual fears of escalating the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to the point of space combat. However, the designs were realistic -- they could have been built.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' features the United Nations Space Command Navy. [[PlayerCharacter John-117]] got his nickname "the Master Chief" because he's actually a Master Chief Petty Officer in the Navy.

** The most notable of these on-paper ideas -- and the closest we ever got to a real-life space navy -- were the USAF proposals to weaponize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]], the TropeNamer for the OrionDrive. Kennedy himself is said to have been ''terrified'' by these proposals, and for good reason. One of them was the [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship 4000 ton Orion Battleship]], equipped with six hypersonic landing boats, a secondary armament of three 5 inch naval guns together with six 20mm CIWS turrets and a primary armament of not only 500 twenty megaton conventional nukes, but also an unspecified ammount of Casaba Howitzers: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_shaped_charge nukes that focus their explosion]] into a [[WaveMotionGun narrow, destructive beam]]. The other proposal was even more terrifying: an unmanned version of the Orion Battleship with much of its crew and weapons compartment replaced with a ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/william-black/art/Doomsday-Orion-504250808 massive]]'' 3 gigaton hydrogen bomb. For reference, detonating such a warhead would be like [[https://youtu.be/JyECrGp-Sw8 piling all the nukes currently owned by the world's militaries into a warehouse and detonating them]]. It was the largest nuclear warhead ever proposed by a nation's military. Thankfully, none of this ever got close to being built due to not only international treaties banning nuclear detonations in space, but also mutual fears of escalating the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to the point of space combat. However, the designs were realistic -- they could have been built.

** The most notable of these on-paper ideas -- and the closest we ever got to a real-life space navy -- were the USAF proposals to weaponize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]], the TropeNamer for the OrionDrive. Kennedy himself is said to have been ''terrified'' by these proposals, and for good reason. One of them was the [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship 4000 ton Orion Battleship]], equipped with six hypersonic landing boats, a secondary armament of three 5 inch naval guns together with five 20mm CIWS turrets and a primary armament of not only 500 twenty megaton conventional nukes, but also an unspecified ammount of Casaba Howitzers: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_shaped_charge nukes that focus their explosion]] into a [[WaveMotionGun narrow, destructive beam]]. The other proposal was even more terrifying: an unmanned version of the Orion Battleship with much of its crew and weapons compartment replaced with a ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/william-black/art/Doomsday-Orion-504250808 massive]]'' 3 gigaton hydrogen bomb. For reference, detonating such a warhead would be like [[https://youtu.be/JyECrGp-Sw8 piling all the nukes currently owned by the world's militaries into a warehouse and detonating them]]. It was the largest nuclear warhead ever proposed by a nation's military. Thankfully, none of this ever got close to being built due to not only international treaties banning nuclear detonations in space, but also mutual fears of escalating the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to the point of space combat. However, the designs were realistic -- they could have been built.

** The most notable of these on-paper ideas -- and the closest we ever got to a real-life space navy -- were the USAF proposals to weaponize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]], the TropeNamer for the OrionDrive. Kennedy himself is said to have been ''terrified'' by these proposals, and for good reason. One of them was the [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship 4000 ton Orion Battleship]], equipped with six hypersonic landing boats, a secondary armament of three 5 inch naval guns together with five 20mm CIWS turrets and a primary armament of not only 500 twenty megaton conventional nukes, but also an unspecified ammount of Casaba Howitzers: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_shaped_charge nukes that focus their explosion]] into a [[WaveMotionGun narrow, destructive beam]]. The other proposal was even more terrifying: an unmanned version of the Orion Battleship with much of its crew and weapons compartment replaced with a ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/william-black/art/Doomsday-Orion-504250808 massive]]'' 3 gigaton hydrogen bomb. For reference, detonating such a warhead would be like [[https://youtu.be/JyECrGp-Sw8 detonating every nuclear weapon currently in the arsenals of nations around the world]]. It was the largest nuclear warhead ever proposed by a nation's military. Thankfully, none of this ever got close to being built due to not only international treaties banning nuclear detonations in space, but also mutual fears of escalating the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to the point of space combat. However, the designs were realistic -- they could have been built.

** The most notable of these on-paper ideas -- and the closest we ever got to a real-life space navy -- were the USAF proposals to weaponize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]], the TropeNamer for the OrionDrive. Kennedy himself is said to have been ''terrified'' by these proposals, and for good reason. One of them was the [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship 4000 ton Orion Battleship]], equipped with six hypersonic landing boats, a secondary armament of three 5 inch naval guns together with five 20mm CIWS turrets and a primary armament of not only 500 twenty megaton conventional nukes, but also an unspecified ammount of Casaba Howitzers: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_shaped_charge nukes that focus their explosion]] into a [[WaveMotionGun narrow, destructive beam]]. The other proposal was even more terrifying: an unmanned version of the Orion Battleship with much of its crew and weapons compartment replaced with a ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/william-black/art/Doomsday-Orion-504250808 massive]]'' 3 gigaton hydrogen bomb -- the largest ever seriously proposed by any nation so far, and a veritable DoomsdayDevice. Thankfully, none of this ever got close to being built due to not only international treaties banning nuclear detonations in space, but also mutual fears of escalating the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to the point of space combat. However, the designs were realistic -- they could have been built.

** The most notable of these on-paper ideas -- and the closest we ever got to a real-life space navy -- were the USAF proposals to weaponize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]], the TropeNamer for the OrionDrive. Kennedy himself is said to have been ''terrified'' by these proposals, and for good reason. One of them was the [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship 4000 ton Orion Battleship]], equipped with six hypersonic landing boats, a secondary armament of three 5 inch naval guns together with five 20mm CIWS turrets and a primary armament of not only 500 twenty megaton conventional nukes, but also an unspecified ammount of Casaba Howitzers: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_shaped_charge#:~:text=Nuclear%20shaped%20charges%20refers%20to,the%20second%20the%20H%2Dbomb. nukes that focus their explosion]] into a [[WaveMotionGun narrow, destructive beam]]. The other proposal was even more terrifying: an unmanned version of the Orion Battleship with much of its crew and weapons compartment replaced with a ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/william-black/art/Doomsday-Orion-504250808 massive]]'' 3 gigaton hydrogen bomb -- the largest ever seriously proposed by any nation so far, and a veritable DoomsdayDevice. Thankfully, none of this ever got close to being built due to not only international treaties banning nuclear detonations in space, but also mutual fears of escalating the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to the point of space combat. However, the designs were realistic -- they could have been built.

** The most notable of these on-paper ideas -- and the closest we ever got to a real-life space navy -- were the USAF proposals to weaponize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]], the TropeNamer for the OrionDrive. Kennedy himself is said to have been ''terrified'' by these proposals, and for good reason. One of them was the [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship 4000 ton Orion Battleship]], equipped with six hypersonic landing boats, a secondary armament of three 5 inch naval guns together with five 20mm CIWS turrets and a primary armament of not only 500 twenty megaton conventional nukes, but also an unspecified ammount of Casaba Howitzers: weaponized version of Orion Drive bombs. The other proposal was even more terrifying: an unmanned version of the Orion Battleship with much of its crew and weapons compartment replaced with a ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/william-black/art/Doomsday-Orion-504250808 massive]]'' 3 gigaton hydrogen bomb -- the largest ever seriously proposed by any nation so far, and a veritable DoomsdayDevice. Thankfully, none of this ever got close to being built due to not only international treaties banning nuclear detonations in space, but also mutual fears of escalating the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to the point of space combat. However, the designs were realistic -- they could have been built.

** The most notable of these on-paper ideas -- and the closest we ever got to a real-life space navy -- were the USAF proposals to weaponize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]], the TropeNamer for the OrionDrive. Kennedy himself is said to have been ''terrified'' by these proposals, and for good reason. One of them was the [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship 4000 ton Orion Battleship]], equipped with six hypersonic landing boats, a secondary armament of three 5 inch naval guns and five 20mm CIWS turrets and a primary armament of 500 twenty megaton conventional nukes and an unspecified ammount of Casaba Howitzers: weaponized version of Orion Drive bombs. The other proposal was even more terrifying: an unmanned version of the Orion Battleship with much of its crew and weapons compartment replaced with a ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/william-black/art/Doomsday-Orion-504250808 massive]]'' 3 gigaton hydrogen bomb -- the largest ever seriously proposed by any nation so far, and a veritable DoomsdayDevice. Thankfully, none of this ever got close to being built due to not only international treaties banning nuclear detonations in space, but also mutual fears of escalating the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to the point of space combat. However, the designs were realistic -- they could have been built.