Navy refers to all military organizations of a country's maritime military and national defense, including ships, personnel and naval institutions. The army fighting at sea is usually composed of surface warship units, submarine units, aviation units, marine corps, naval coast guard and various professional units.
The emergence and development of the navy has a long history. It takes warships or warships as the main line, from primitive and simple ancient warships to multi-system modern warships, from individual scattered technology to intensive and comprehensive technology, and has gone through a long process of thousands of years.