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Kenya picking up a bunch of patrol boats from U.S.
As noted by the State Department, the final six of 10 Metal Shark boats, provided through 500 million Kenyan shillings ($4.9m USD) of grant funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, were delivered...
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Lady Lex still has one of the most amazing airwings in the world
Paul Allen keeps doing it. This time, his research ship, Petrel, has located the final resting place of USS Lexington (CV-2), the nation’s first real fleet carrier. “On March 5th 2018, the research...
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Louisville on ice
“Fighter and Freighter – Kodiak, Alaska.” Painting, Oil on Board; by William F. Draper; 1942; Framed Dimensions 24H X 28W. NHHC 88-189-B The warship looks to be a Northampton or Pensacola-class heavy...
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Looks like Lockheed-Martin may get a lock on frigate sales
With the U.S. Navy just three weeks ago fronting cash ($15 million each) for five different frigate designs for the new FFG(X) Guided Missile Frigate concept, one of the companies, Lockheed, just...
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Lots of cold bubbleheads this month
Scheduled to last five weeks, ICEX 2018 has kicked off with a joint NATO effort to show readiness in the Arctic. The Navy’s Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) and the Canadian Defence Forces have set...
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Dental call!
“Dental Scene” Painting, Gouache on Paper; by Julian Levi; 1943; Framed Dimensions 22H X 24. Accession #: 88-159-GQ as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories “Waiting seamen look forward to the dental chair...
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Warship Wednesday, March 14, 2018: Always on the edge of history
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 ArticleKeeping up the search for the lost, but never forgotten
A recovery team aboard U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command’s USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52) completed an excavation, on Feb. 25, of multiple aircraft losses shot down in 1944 near Ngerekebesang Island,...
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Warship Wednesday, March 21, 2018: After 75 years, take a breather
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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Sisu and the art of good carrier traps
The Ilmavoimat, or Finnish Air Force, has its roots in the old Imperial Russian Army’s air corps and sprang to life 100 years ago this month at the country’s independence from the failing old Empire,...
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Everyone loves the M17
All branches of the U.S. Armed Forces have placed orders for the M17/18 Modular Handgun System according to Sig Sauer. (Photo: Chris Eger) Though originally a winner for an Army contract, Sig officials...
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Riviera port call!
At Villefranche-sur-Mer, France in 1889. Catalog #: NH 46886 click to big up The ships include the old Civil War-era screw sloop-of-war USS Lancaster (bottom right with extensive deck canvas). To the...
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Little Rock out of canuck ice jail
LAKE MICHIGAN (Aug. 25, 2017) The future littoral combat ship USS Little Rock (LCS 9) is underway during a high-speed run in Lake Michigan during acceptance trials. She was born on the Lakes and,...
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Warship Wednesday, April 4, 2018: The often imitated but never duplicated Indy
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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Meet the new National Security Multi-Mission Vessel
Illustration of the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel that will serve as SUNY Maritime College’s new training ship starting in 2022. Image Credit: SUNY Maritime College Currently, the nation’s sea...
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That mouth, tho
Operation Market Time: Photo was taken on 29 November 1966 by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Whitmarsh. USN 1120032 A Cat Lo-based U.S. Navy large personnel landing craft (LCPL) cruises in Vung Tau...
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Warship Wednesday, April 11, 2018: Ms. Lane, of Paraguay, Nashville and...
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Happy Birthday, Yorktown
First off, this is a Kodachrome original, not a colorized photo. It shows the crew of the brand-new U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) at attention as the National Ensign is...
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Migs swimming with Hornets and Tomcats
Off Pula, Croatia, 2002 — An F-14 Tomcat fighter assigned to the Jolly Rogers of Fighter Squadron One Zero Three (VF-103) leads a formation comprised of F/A-18 Hornet strike fighters from the Blue...
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Warship Wednesday: Coral Sea, arriving with a mighty flock, 55 years ago today
A brief WW this week gives us the view of the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) underway in the Pacific, April 18, 1963, just out of Pearl Harbor with various aircraft of Carrier Group Fifteen...
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