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Bella Napoli

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Catalog #: NH 98293 ‘Friendship Lights’ aboard Boston cast a glow on the waters of the Bay of Naples...

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An anti-ship missile, an anti-ship missile, my kingdom for an anti-ship missile!

CDR Salamader’s blog over at USNI cued me into just how bad the West-Pac missile gap is between the USN and PLAN: From the Autumn issue of the Naval War College Review, Lieutenant Alan Cummings, USN,...

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Warship Wednesday Nov. 23, 2016: A long overdue Salute

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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Ersatz carrier, you are here

A joint US Navy/Marine Corps “Proof of Concept” demonstration held off the coast of Southern California Nov. 18-20 put the largest force of F-35B Lightning II stealth STOVL strike fighters ever...

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For Dallas at least, the hunt is over

The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Dallas (SSN 700) returns to homeport at Groton, Conn., following its final scheduled deployment after more than 30 years in service. (U.S. Navy...

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Warship Wednesday Nov. 30, 2016: The Almirante and her Yankee (and Chilean)...

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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Coast Guard gets quiet upgrade

The M242 Bushmaster has been around since 1972. The 25mm cannon is a beast and was fielded for the Army’s M2/M3 IFV/CFV and the Marines’ LAV-25 recon vehicle. By 1986, the Navy started fielding the gun...

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They towed the Cold War mine line: The Agile/Aggressive-class MSOs

The U.S. Navy has a long history of mine sweeping, having lost the first modem ships to those infernal torpedoes in the Civil War. As a byproduct of Mr. Roosevelt’s Great North Sea Mine Barrage of the...

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New USS Arizona Memorial Dedicated at University of Arizona

Photo Credit Aengus Anderson A new memorial to the sunken battleship the USS Arizona was unveiled on Sunday, three days before the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that propelled the...

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From the oldest Pearl Harbor survivor– a minesweeper man

Navy Seaman Raymond Chavez is now 104 years old but he remembers one of the first sightings of a Japanese midget submarine hours before the attack and racing back to his ship once the fight was on....

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Navy’s newest PBs seem to be moving right along

Sailors assigned to Coastal Riverine Squadron Two (CRS-2), conduct a live-fire weapons exercise on a Mark VI Patrol Boat in Santa Rita, Guam, Sept. 30, 2016. CRS-2 is assigned to Commander, Task Force...

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Warship Wednesday Dec. 7, 2016: The eclipsing old bird of Battleship Row

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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Picking up the pieces after the Infamy

Too often we forget that the biggest part of the battle at Pearl Harbor came after the Japanese were sailing away. By 0915 on 7 December, Navy divers and salvage teams were hard at work. Throughout...

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Vestal was also there, now anew

At the Pentagon on December 7, 2016, the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, an old warrior was wheeled in to the auditorium, and honored for the first time since the 1950s. The 14,000-ton...

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Maritime Hybrid Warfare Is Coming

An interesting take on the possibility of asymmetric warfare at sea in the future from Adm. James Stavridis in this month’s Proceedings: South China Sea, 2019 On a summer’s evening in the sweltering...

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Sumter’s Parrotts to see renovation

The Right Face Wall of Fort Sumter contains 11 6.4-inch Parrott Rifles in the first tier casemates. They were moved to the fort in 1873 from the Augusta Arsenal and their provenance is hidden under 150...

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Swarmboats, yeah, we got that

Using technology originally designed for the Mars Rover, the Office of Naval Research has developed a kit that can be added to any boat and used to make a swarm of autonomous boats. Navy officials see...

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A PT break

Bristling with 20mm and 37mm cannon, .50 cal machine guns and torpedoes, the 80~ foot long plywood wonders that were WWII mosquito boats were pound for pound one of the stoutest warships ever to serve...

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Warship Wednesday Dec. 21, 2017: The pirate chaser of Lake Michigan

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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It looks like the Navy is backpedaling on scrapping the rates after all

Now can someone please help the SECNAV pack his things…

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