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The Bora Bora battleship batteries at 75
Back in the days of the Great White Fleet, the six Connecticut-class pre-dreadnought battleships (Connecticut, Louisiana, Vermont, Kansas, Minnesota, and New Hampshire; BBs 18-25) were initially...
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Drone boat suspected in attack on Saudi frigate
As noted by Defense News: The Houthi boat that attacked and hit a Saudi frigate Jan. 30 in the Red Sea, reported earlier as a suicide boat, was instead carried out by an unmanned, remote-controlled...
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A battered relic of Saipan
Click to big up 1800×301 Japanese Arisaka Type 99 7.7x58mm bolt action rifle with grenade damage and inscribed presentation plaque captured at Saipan 16 June 1944. The “mum” is present on the receiver,...
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Remnants of the Brown Water Navy
click to big up On display at the US Navy (USN) Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument are (left to right) a PBR (Patrol Boat River) Mark II (Mk-2) Patrol Boat, a PCF (Patrol Craft Fast) Swift Boat, and an...
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The Disposaleers!
Dig those MK18s… Official caption: 170214-N-N0901-003. RAMSUND, Norway (Feb. 14, 2017) Sailors assigned to Platoon 802, the mine countermeasure platoon of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit...
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Kingfish and Dragon Master
After WWII, minesweeping took to the air, at least in the U.S. Navy, and by the 1960s helicopter-borne sleds were the name in the game (see RH-3A’s on USS Ozark in a past Warship Wednesday for more on...
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Warship Wednesday Mar. 8, 2017: The old Spanish maiden of Annapolis (and...
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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Motown LCS drops the Hellfires, um we mean SSMM
In an effort to give the Littoral Combat Ships some teeth against small boat threats and swarm attacks by the same, USS Detroit (LCS 7) last week pulled off structural test firing of 3 missiles from...
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CIA SKIFF Semi-Submersible
This mysterious little midget was photographed in the CIA Museum in McLean, Virginia in 2011. From the official description: CIA designed and manufactured this two-man semi-submersible in the 1950s. It...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Paul Sample
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers...
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So long, Indy
The retired Forrestal-class supercarrier ex-USS Independence (CV-62) has left mothballs, in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, on her last cruise, and leaves a big void at her former long-term dock. She is...
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Bioluminescence via LHD
170305-N-LI768-160 ARABIAN SEA (March 3, 2017) The amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) transits the Arabian Sea. The ship is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of...
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Warship Wednesday Mar. 22, 2017: The Cowboy Monitor
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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Navy blaster
Official caption: ROTA, Spain (March 5, 2017) Ship’s Serviceman 3rd Class Samantha Rivera stands topside rover watch aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) while the ship is pier side...
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MH60 pilots getting gunship upgrades
Elbit just scored a contract for 126 Helmet Display Tracker Systems to be used by the Navy on MH-60s to help integrate point of impact for onboard weapons systems, which is very nice. The HDTS has...
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Are you talking to me, pilgrim?
Image via National Naval Aviation Museum 30 years ago, March 29, 1987, Light Photographic Squadron (VFP) 206, the last squadron of its type in the Navy, disestablished. It also marked the end of F-8...
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Looking for a rare US&S 1911?
During WWII, Uncle Sam ordered nearly two million Model 1911A1 GI .45ACPs, and the Union Switch & Signal company of Swissvale, Pennsylvania made one of the rarest and most sought-after variants....
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Goodbye ‘Harrier Carrier, welcome to ‘Lightning Carriers’ (CV-Ls)
Tyler Rogoway has an interesting write up on the USMC/USN’s take on using Marine F-35s on the new class of 40,000-ton LHAs, which are basically the same size as WWII fleet carriers. Under the...
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Feeling like a naval AAA mount or two?
If you have a problem with low-flying German Messerschmitts or Japanese Zeroes, Rock Island Auction Company may have just what you are looking for in a pair of naval AAA mounts. As part of their May...
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Warship Wednesday April 5, 2017: Of black cats, bad luck and tempests
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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