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The ‘Fighting Carney’ Back From 51 Engagements off Houthiland, Earns NUC
With her battle flag hoisted, the early (laid down in 1993) Flight I Burke, USS Carney (DDG-64), returned from an epic 235-day deployment to the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Arabian...
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Cape Jellison, is that you?
It seems a used– but not too abused– Cold War-era former Cape class cutter/patrol boat is up for sale– cheap. One of the nine 95-foot Type B Capes completed in the 1950s (there were 36 of the vessels,...
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Final Indy class LCS Christened
The 19th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship– the future USS Pierre (LCS 38)-– was christened over the weekend at Austal in Mobile. Ship sponsor Larissa Thune Hargens executed the ceremonial...
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Confusing Frigate Developments
Thursday’s contracts included an order for two more Constellation class frigates. Emphasis mine: Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette, Wisconsin, is awarded a $1,044,529,113 fixed-price incentive...
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Wreck of ‘Hit em Harder’ confirmed
One of the 52 WWII American submarines considered on Eternal Patrol, the resting place of the Gato-class fleet boat USS Harder (SS 257), which received six battle stars for her wartime service, has...
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Rising Sun Updates
In Japan, the country’s Maritime Self-Defense Force is stretching its legs. The 4,000-ton training frigate JS Kashima (TV-3508), accompanied by the 6,000-ton Hatakaze-class guided missile destroyer JS...
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Eye in the Sky
Some 80 years ago this month, a USN PB4Y-1 (B-24) Liberator on an anti-submarine operational flight, 22 May 1944, out of Naval Air Field, Port Lyautey, French Morocco. Note the Portuguese-flagged...
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Austal Gets $500 Million for New TAGOS
From Thursday’s DOD Contracts: Austal USA, Mobile, Alabama, is awarded a $516,481,569 fixed-price incentive (firm-target) contract modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-23-C-2203) to...
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Just in case: Aircrew Bail Out Handguns
One peculiar thing that has endured from the ages of the Red Baron through today is the custom of pilots and aircrews carrying so-called “bail-out guns” to be used on the ground should they lose their...
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The Strangest Combat Tug in Seattle
The Sotoyomo-class fleet tug moored at 6716 East Side Dr NE #1-526, with a view of Seattle’s Space Needle, has had an identity conflict over the years. Built at Gulfport Boiler and Welding Works, Port...
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The Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, contains the graves of 9,388 war dead, and nearly another 1,557 names on the Walls of the Missing, most of whom lost their lives in the...
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They Kept Coming: D+1 and Beyond
More than 150,000 Allied troops from the U.S., Britain, Canada, Free France, and Norway made it ashore on D-Day– suffering some 12,000 casualties. However, with the beachheads firmly secured, they...
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Hornet at 50
Some 50 years ago today: The first Northrop YF-17 Cobra prototype made its first flight on 9 June 1974, with Northrop’s Chief Test Pilot, Henry “Hank” Chouteau, at the controls. The flight ran 61...
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Good Luck and Godspeed, Gen. Anders
Rest in peace, Maj. Gen. (ret.) William “Bill” Anders (USNA 1955), who passed away last Friday in San Juan Islands, Washington state, at the age of 90. Apollo 8 was the first manned Saturn V mission,...
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SoDak Class Camo Profiles
Recently spotted while wandering around the Alabama Battleship Memorial Park on Mobile Bay. Thought some of you guys who are scale modelers or just general naval history buffs, would find it of...
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The Last American Dreadnought
How about this amazing original Kodachrome, snapped 80 years ago today, showing the Iowa-class fast battleship, USS Missouri (BB-63) commissioning ceremonies, at the New York Navy Yard, on 11 June...
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Fantastic Livery
I’m a sucker for eye-catching fighter planes and two have recently popped up. From Denmark, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Fighting Falcon in Danish service, the Kongelige Danske Flyvevåben...
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Just Good Times on the Smoking Deck
How about this great circa 1988 shot of an unidentified sailor in UDT shorts and a chocolate chip boonie firing from the hip at a target floating behind the wooden-decked Aggressive/Agile-class ocean...
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190th is the Charm: Houthi Sink 80,000-ton Bulk Carrier in Combined Arms Attack
As detailed in an On-the-Record Press Briefing by Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh Holds, the current count of Iranian-backed Houthi attacks in the Red Sea area since 19 November stands...
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First National Guard Unit Gets Hands on Next Generation Squad Weapons, Navy...
A North Carolina unit is the first in the National Guard to field test the new SIG Sauer-made XM7 and the XM250, which is replacing the M4/M4A1 carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, respectively....
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