What is "silent service"

n. 1 (context military informal sometimes capitalized English) The submarine service. 2 (context military informal sometimes capitalized possibly dated English) The navy.

Silent Service is a 1985 submarine simulator video game. It was designed by Sid Meier and published by MicroProse for various 8-bit home computers, and in 1987 for 16-bit systems like the Amiga. A NES port of Silent Service developed by Rare was released in 1989 by Konami in Europe and by Ultra Games in North America. The follow-up game, Silent Service II, was released in 1990.

Tommo Inc. purchased the rights to this game and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015.

Silent Service may refer to:

• An unofficial name that many submarine services give themselves, including:
  • The Royal Navy Submarine Service, the submarine element of the Royal Navy
  • The United States Pacific Fleet, a Pacific Ocean theater-level component command of the United States Navy
  • The Submarine Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet
• Silent Service (video game), a 1985 video game
  • Silent Service II, a 1990 sequel to the original game
• The Silent Service (TV series), a 1957 drama television series directed by Jean Yarbrough
• The Silent Service, a 1988 Japanese manga and anime series
• The Silent Service, a series of books by author H. Jay Riker

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