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Navy gets in some Hellfire action
Tests in adding a 24-pack of Hellfire missiles, guided by the Army’s Apache Longbow system, to thier LCS fleet seems to be moving forward rather well. Now don’t freak out, LCS is also supposed to get a...
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Georgia cannons multiplying
Navy divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 6 have so far recovered the four cannon located from the hardluck ironclad CSS Georgia. These included a 6...
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Warship Wednesday Aug 19, 2015: The first of the bucking ‘165s
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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PCS-1 and their Griffins
The Navy really didn’t like the Cyclone class patrol craft (PC), the 170-foot long coastal patrol boats built for the Naval Special Warfare community in the 1990s to replace the old Mekong Delta style...
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A serious surface action group, circa 1986
2673 × 1729 1 July 1986, U.S. Defense Imagery photo VIRIN: DN-SC-87-00354 by PH2 Orell, USN An aerial view of the first U.S. Navy battleship battle group to deploy to the Western Pacific since the...
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When pigs fly
Background on this video from its original post: I filmed this in 1986, while on board the USS America, in the Mediterranean Sea. The jet jocks came up with this great plan to drop off three...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 2, 2015: Dodge’s Dauntless Delphine
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More of the new normal
The “Poyang Lake” AOE provides maritime comprehensive supply to the “Ningbo” guided missile frigate (L) on December 6, 2012.(Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua) Reuters reports that for the first time in modern history...
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And now for something really new
USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1 EPF 1) departs Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story on 16 January 2014 For those of you enamored with the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), Joint High Speed Vessel...
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Glomar Explorer headed to the scrap heap
With global oil prices falling to $40 a barrel in the wake of oil sands fracking and Iran coming back online, TransOcean is scrapping some 20 of their older deepwater oil drilling ships. One of these,...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Bruce Minney
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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SEAL fun gun, the Heckler and Koch MP7 personal defensive weapon
Although it’s been around for going on 15 years, the MP7, with its proprietary cartridge and styling that would make it home in a Luc Besson movie, is one of the cooler room brooms out there. Why is it...
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Congress not impressed with LCS mine hunting program
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert tours the Lockheed Martin undersea systems facilities in Riviera Beach. While there, Greenert viewed a littoral combat ship remote minehunting system...
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Last of the Rota 4 heads across the pond
The Big Blue first announced in 2012 they were sending a quartet of ABM-enabled Burkes to Spain where they would be forward deployed for emerging threats and provide NATO with some solid ballistic...
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The unsung hero of the Navy’s chopper force
Laid down, 28 December 1967, at Pacific Coast Engineering Co., in Alameda, the heroically named Skilak (YFU-79), was just 125-feet long and could plod along at 9 knots. Armed with 3 M2 machine guns to...
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EOD dances with the Iver 3 in the Persian Gulf
One of the more quiet entries into harbor and coastal mine clearing that the Navy has been working on besides the more high profile RMS as used by the LCS, is devices like Ocean Server’s Iver 3...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 16, 2015: The little tug that could (and did)
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Where once Hellcats tread, now goes the Piper
F6F Hellcat trainees, 1944, NAS Vero Beach In 1942 the Navy took over the Vero Beach, Florida Municipal Airport and renamed it Naval Air Station (NAS) Vero Beach, using it to train first the...
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Don’t let anyone tell you carrier ops are ‘routine’
30th June 1970 USN F-4B Phantom Bu. No. 153913 Tailcode NL 1 of VF-151 aboard USS Coral Sea (CV-43) Crashed into the Pacific off California during launch when nose gear collapsed. Sadly both the pilot...
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Saudis serious about LCS
Apparently the Kingdom of Saud is for real on their intentions to pick up one of the U.S. Littoral Combat Ship designs– that of Lockheed’s mono-hull Freedom-class 150428-N-TC437-320 PACIFIC OCEAN...
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