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...
View ArticleAn 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,...
View ArticleWarship 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...
View ArticleErsatz 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...
View ArticleFor 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...
View ArticleWarship 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...
View ArticleCoast 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...
View ArticleThey 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleFrom 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....
View ArticleNavy’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...
View ArticleWarship 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...
View ArticlePicking 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...
View ArticleVestal 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...
View ArticleMaritime 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...
View ArticleSumter’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...
View ArticleSwarmboats, 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleWarship 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...
View ArticleIt 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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