STAVE-LCS
I thought this was interesting in how the Navy trains using the Surface Training Advanced Virtual Environment for the Littoral Combat Ship (STAVE-LCS). Hopefully one day the actual ships will mature...
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A suppressed 20-pound .338 Norma Magnum belt-fed Sig Sauer machine gun? OK!
Sig Sauer announced this week that the U.S. Special Operation Command has certified and taken delivery of the company’s new MG 338 machine gun system. Chambered in .338 Norma Magnum, the MG 338 is...
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Dorie Miller to be remembered in a new carrier
The (A)SECNAV over the weekend announced that, in honor of MLK Day, USS West Virginia Pearl Harbor hero cook PO3 Dorie Miller will be the namesake of a new Gerald Ford-class carrier, the future CVN-81....
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Machine guns and torpedo tubes, the more things change…
Here we see a warrant officer in dress whites aboard USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) leaning jauntily on a stanchion-mounted machine gun, circa 1914. This weapon is a .30 caliber U.S. Model 1909 Machine...
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Warship Wednesday Jan 22, 2020: Oh, Mr. Volstead, what have you done?
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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The 1903 Model Signal ‘Gun’
Submitted for your consideration, a Navy signal outpost on New Caledonia, January 1943. A convoy of sailors en-route to water and supplies, guide their horses over a mountain trail. Note the M1903...
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In the sky…
Although Fox Sports only gave it about 2 seconds of coverage, the military flyover at SuperBowl LIV over Miami on Sunday was historic, flown by a four-ship Navy/Marine group that included an EF-18G...
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Warship Wednesday Feb. 5, 2020: Witness to the Sunrise
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Maiden flight on a surplus seaplane, 92 years ago today
Official caption: “Navy flyer takes 12-year seaplane on its first flight. After lying in storage at the Washington Navy Yard more than 12 years, an obsolete 1915 model Curtiss seaplane on its maiden...
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The new aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) has been getting lots of knocks in the past few years and with good reason. Commissioned, 22 July 2017, now going on three years in service, and she...
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Fitz Looking Better
The past week saw a battered old greyhound sortie out to find her sealegs again. The early Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) sailed from Pascagoula to conduct...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020: That time one of the Kaiser’s U-Boats Went...
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Big Navy wants to bench the first LCS quartet to pass on the savings, or...
Going back to the old Zumwalt Redux “Streetfighter” concept, the littoral combat ship program was envisioned to crank out an armada of cheap (err, affordable) but deadly and fast ships ready to go into...
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By the light of the full moon, 29 years ago today
Here we see John Charles Roach’s 1991 painting, “Adroit Marks the Way for Princeton.” “With the use of hand flares, USS Adroit (MSO-509) marks possible mines in an effort to extract the already damaged...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020: Hannah on the Beach
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Oh that? That’s just my CUSV, thanks for asking
NORFOLK, Va. (Feb. 12, 2020) A developmental, early variant of the Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV) autonomously conducts maneuvers on the Elizabeth River during its demonstration during Citadel...
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Battlewagon in the anti-ship missile age, 29 years ago today
While primitive guided bombs and missiles were fielded in WWII (see = the U.S. Navy’s SWOD-9 Bat and the sinking of the Italian battleship Roma in 1943 by an air-launched Fritz X) it wasn’t until the...
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Making good on the reputation of a GMCM
PCU USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119), a Flt IIA DDG-51-class destroyer in the last stages of her construction at Ingalls, recently got a chance to live fire of her Mk. 45 Mod 4 5-inch/62cal gun for the...
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LCS may actually get their drone minesweeper, afterall
The idea behind the littoral combat ship program is that it would take the place of the aging de-fanged Oliver Hazard Perry-class FFs– which had their original missile batteries neutered– as well as...
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American Chestnut, Commodore Dewey edition
Via the Independence Seaport Museum in Philly, where Dewey’s flagship Olympia and the old Balao-class diesel boat USS Becuna have been on display for generations: “The Admiral/Captain’s stateroom...
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