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Bulk Pricing on SSN 9-Packs
Gen Dyn just picked up a huge $22B contract for nine Virginia-class submarines, eight of which are Block V boats with the Virginia Payload Module (VPM), from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2023. VPMs bring an...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019: The Other Tora of Pearl Harbor
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Bad Day for Old Museum Ships
USCGC Bramble WLB 392, back in her pre-2019 Port Huron days The retired U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bramble (WLB-392), a WWII-era veteran of the Bikini tests and the historic 1957 voyage through the...
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A Handgun That Saw Hell
On 7 December 1941, the Mahan-class destroyer USS Shaw (DD-373) was in the old New Orleans YFD2 drydock at the Pearl Harbor Naval Yard. Soon after the Japanese attack began, she suffered three direct...
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MSC Adding Fast Hospital Ships ?
Saturday’s DOD Contract announcements included this little gem, converting a pair of Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transports (EPF) currently under construction–USNS Apalachicola (EPF 13), and...
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Last Arizona Vet, arriving via Mark V
The ashes of Lauren Bruner, a survivor of the 7 December 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and Oahu, be placed inside the wreckage of the USS Arizona (BB-39) in an interment ceremony at the USS Arizona...
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Continuity in ships’ tradition, across both sides of the Atlantic
This week saw the christening of the new Ford-class carrier, USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) sponsored by no less a person than Caroline B. Kennedy, JFK’s daughter, and the late President’s only living...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Tuesday), Dec. 17, 2019: The Count’s Bones
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Carriers on the move from the Liaoning to Hampton Roads
The first clear images of the Type 002 carrier, Shāndōng (17) have been released as the vessel was commissioned yesterday into PLAN service. The vessel, China’s second semi-operational flattop after...
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Staying frosty on Lake Michigan
As noted this week in a release from Lockheed-Martin: Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 19, the future USS St. Louis, completed Acceptance Trials in Lake Michigan. Now that trials are complete, the ship will...
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Swiss Cold War Tigers Going Home
Armed F-5A prototype, rough field trials First flown in 1959, the Northrop F-5 became a popular “budget” air-superiority fighter in the Cold War, especially in its later F-5E Tiger variant. Essentially...
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A tin can full of Sparrows, for the first time, 48 years ago today
The 4th (and last as of 2019) ship named in honor of Midshipman John Trippe, who at the ripe old age of 19 fought so bravely against the Barbary pirates that he earned the praise of Congress and a gold...
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Christmas Eve Fireworks Show
Somewhere off the DPRK on this day in 1950… U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 96811 USS Missouri (BB-63): Forward turret fires a 16-inch shell at enemy forces attacking...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019: A Tough Christmas in the Lingayen Gulf
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Exorcising the Ghosts of Pearl Harbor (while setting up the next one)
USS OKLAHOMA (BB-37) and USS ARIZONA (BB-39) in better times, side by side in the Pedro Miguel locks of the Panama Canal in January 1921. Ship in distance is USS NEVADA (BB-36). C.F. Rottmann,...
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Ersatz Submarine Tending, Coming to an Atoll Near You
With thousands of uninhabited and sparsely inhabited islands, atolls, shoals, and reefs scattered across the Western Pacific, the U.S. Navy is testing out ways to forward supply submarines in what...
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Warship Wednesday Jan 8, 2020: Maru Floatplane Carriers
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Bluebird in Brazil, 98 years ago
A rickety canvas and wood Vought flying machine takes gingerly to the air from a catapult, allowing its 180-horse Wright-Hispano E-3 to claw at the sky. Below is the green-blue water of Rio De Janerio....
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So long, Sea Ranger
For decades, anyone who ever looked up to the whop-whop of a low-flying helicopter over the skies of West Florida or along Mobile Bay or the Mississippi Gulf Coast has often spied the distinctive TH-57...
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Warship Wednesday Jan 15, 2020: TF38 Running Amok in the South China Sea
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