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The Connie’s sad last trip around the Horn
From NASA Goddard’s Flickr feed: “NASA’s Operation IceBridge collected some rare images on a flight out of Punta Arenas, Chile on Nov. 5, 2014, on a science flight over western Antarctica dubbed...
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Warship Wednesday Nov 26, Marilyn’s Tin Can(s)
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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CTF-150 time capsule
Click to big-up 9 Ships from 6 navies of the multinational Combined Task Force 150 assembled in March 2004. From the left: German Navy’s Bremen-class frigate DM Augsburg (F-213), JMSDF Murasame-class...
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Just when you thought the CIWS was Exocet-only
Based on a 1973 design by GenDyn, the Phalanx Close-in weapon system (CIWS) commonly referred to by the GMGs that have to work with them as R2’s after the Star Wars droid that it resembles, has in the...
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Congress approves 8 frigates for Mexico, Taiwan, and Thailand
140108-N-MJ645-059MAYPORT, Fla. (Jan. 8, 2014) The guided-missile frigate USS Taylor (FFG 50) departs Naval Station Mayport for a seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of...
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Starting a WWII era Wildcat with a 4-gauge shotgun shell
Today modern military aircraft are typically started with the aid of a starter hose or cart. In the old days, props had to be hand-chucked which was dangerous as, if the engine caught before the...
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Warship Wednesday December 10, 2014: The Japanese Saratoga
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 releases more info on Ponce laser
141116-N-PO203-042ARABIAN GULF (Nov. 16, 2014) The Afloat Forward Staging Base (Interim) USS Ponce (ASB(I) 15) conducts an operational demonstration of the Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored...
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Navy wants 20 Up-armored LCS to replace frigates
Lets just call a spade a spade. The Navy has a critical shortage of Subchaser/Destroyer Escort/Frigate type ships…again. Going back to the old steam and steel navy of the 1900s, the torpedo boat was...
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Navy has a 100-pound UUV dressed like a fake shark, no really
From a release by the Navy Friday: The U.S. Navy completed tests on the GhostSwimmer unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story (JEBLC-FS), Dec. 11....
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Steel doves
“A flock of Uncle Sam’s peace doves at the Brooklyn navy yard” (From Harper’s Weekly, 1907 Dec. 7, p. 1792) Click to big up From left to right: Battleship USS Indiana (BB-1), armored cruiser USS...
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Warship Wednesday December 17, 2014, the Catfish of the Falklands
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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Uncle’s nuclear cruisers
With the commissioning of the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise, the world’s largest and fastest super-carrier, able to remain at sea as long as she had food for her crew and jet fuel for her birds, the...
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The beautiful Wildcat
First flown in 1937, the Grumman F4F Wildcat was arguably one of the best carrier-borne fighter aircraft of its day, only marginally outclassed by the faster and more nimble Japanese Mitsubishi A6M...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 24, 2014, Remembering that Cold Winter in the Valley
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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Santa Cat (After Christmas honorable mention)
Nope, this isnt photoshopped. “Santa Cat,” an F-14B Tomcat flown by the U.S. Navy’s VF-103 “Jolly Rogers” off of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). The B-series F-14 made the venerable 1970s era air...
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Well used Lewis gun
Click to bigup 61-65-A MACHINE GUN CAL 30, US, LEWIS Accession: 61-65-A Machine Gun, Cal 30, US, Lewis, Relic (note cooling jacket, magazine pan and butt-stock gone) Machine gun is from the USS Peary...
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Another penny spent, another supercarrier to the scrappers
So far this year the USS Forrestal (CV-59), USS Saratoga (CV-60), and USS Constellation (CV-64) have all been sold to the breakers in Brownsville, Texas for the princely sum of one red cent to scrap...
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Mine Baby Samuel B Roberts back home for good…
“Frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) Returns to Naval Station Mayport. Courtesy HD Video | Navy Media Content Services | Date: 12.15.2014. Family and friends welcome back the guided-missile frigate...
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Warship Wednesday Jan.7, the Coasties on Point
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 (sometimes reaching past that as with today’s post) and will profile a...
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