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“Join the Navy” they say, “See the World,” they say…
140813-N-CZ979-005 ARABIAN GULF (Aug. 13, 2014) Sailors clean an F/A-18C Hornet, attached to the Golden Warriors of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 87 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS...
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90,000 tons of floating hurt
USS Missouri (BB-63) (at left) transferring personnel to USS Iowa (BB-61), while operating off Japan on 20 August 1945. As a young boy in 1984, I stood by with goosebumps in Pascagoula as the crew...
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Warship Wednesday Sept 17, the slow gunboats of the Canal
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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Of coral, Seebees, and Black Sheep
Click to big up In late 1943, the 58th NMCB (Seebees) started scratching out a 3600×150-ish foot runway out of the coral of Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands archipelago. This barren strip, Barakoma...
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A joint U.S./Japan AIP Diesel Squadron?
James Holmes at National Interest has a lot to say about the Sōryū-class submarines of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. These diesel boats are not your grandpa’s old WWII-era smokers. Equipped...
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The Big E’s 1938 Airgroup, in Technicolor!
Back before World War II broke off for the U.S. Navy, carrier airgroups were very logically laid out and, very colorful. Before 1941, the Navy had just eight carriers. *The original Langley (CV-1),...
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AOEs are overrated anyway, right?
T-AOE-10 USNS Bridge alongside replenishment of CVN-68 USS Nimitz In a world where the number of nuclear powered surface combatants that can circumnavigate the globe is dropping every month, fleet...
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A Thousand Kingfishers can’t be wrong
Back before the days of helicopters, the naval seaplane was king for over-the-horizon spotting. This included missions such as scouting for enemy ships, keeping up with the fleet, picking up those...
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Sunburn indeed
Here is a video released by Russian state media in the past few weeks. It shows a target ship hit by two Raduga P-270 Moskit (NATO: SS-N-22 Sunburn) anti-ship missiles during Russian Navy Pacific Fleet...
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Battleship sailors just did it better
Foxtrtot Alpha found a gem from a 2008 issue of the Jerseyman, the journal of the USS New Jersey (BB-62) association. New Jersey, a member of the four-ship Iowa class fast battleships– arguably the...
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Warship Wednesday Oct 1, Of Wind, weather wars, and space junk
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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Four Ticos deep
The ships of the Ticonderoga-class Aegis cruisers were the most advanced warships in the world when they were commissioned. Now pushing over 20-years old, they are the likely the last U.S. cruisers but...
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A Jolly Roger Corsair, a tricky Dick and an near Ace golfer.
Click to big up Here we see a Vought F4U-1A Corsair being serviced in the Pacific after a forced landing on Nissan Island in March, 1944. Nissan is in the Green Islands of Papua New Guinea, exactly...
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Want a dewatted Bofors? Just $25K
Found this on one of the gun classifieds sites this week: A twin 40mm Bofors mount from the ex-USS Downes, DD-375. In case you don’t remember Downes, a Mahan-class tin can commissioned in 1937, she was...
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Go for the big bang with a saluting cannon!
So you have those special occasions when you just want to call upon the gods of fire and smoke– but don’t necessarily want to hit anything. We are not talking about irresponsible gunplay here; we are...
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The Marines of Pres. Arthur and Queen Victoria touring the Pyramids
Click to big up. A meeting of the two groups in 1882 during the Anglo-Egyptian War, comparing mustaches as it would seem. Note the British Martini-Henry rifle with the Royal Marines (left), while the...
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Burke Force Four
Click to bigup. You DO want to bigup. Here we see four Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyers, USS Dewey (DDG 105), USS Sterett (DDG 104), USS Mustin (DDG 89) and USS Stethem (DDG 63)...
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Navy tests borg swarm of RHIBs
In a move to proof of concept the idea that a transiting naval ship can be defended from potential small boat attacks, the Navy ran an excercise in which they used a baker’s dozen small craft to run...
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Got a CRRC in your neck?
140910-N-UD469-180PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 10, 2014) Marines, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU), depart the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42) in...
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