Steeljaw Scribe

…or if you prefer - Полетная палуба в пятницу - российский Выпуск 
Today’s edition will actually be a couple of installments, all stemming from news out o f MAKS 2007, the Russian Air Show and Trade Fair underway outside of Moscow this week.  First item up - MiG’s UCAV, just revealed yesterday:

Video of the UCAV [...]

(Part V here  )
 
 
 
Steeljaw 602 – airborne 270 nm East of Curacao
 
“Still tracking XO” 
 
The report came from the RO (Radar Operator) who sat to the XO’s right in the back of the E-2C. Normally there would be a full complement of three NFO’s in the CIC compartment and all three would be busily engaged in the [...]

(Part IV)

YV-411, airborne over Venezuela. 

The sky was growing a deeper shade of blackish-blue as the South American evening crawled slowly along. The shock of having the business end of a 9mm pointed at his head had begun to subside as he went about the business of flying the Beechcraft. Consulting the hand-held GPS that accompanied his “cargo” [...]

The Kommersant notes:
"Several experts note that such moves ricochet the U.S. administration which has concentrated too heavily on al-Qaida and Iran and overlooked “the Russian threat.” This is an opinion of an unnamed former White House staffer, who served Ronald Reagan and George Bush Snr. “My great fear is that I wake up one day [...]

One of the hallmarks of the E-2/C-2 is the (still) relatively low mishap rate.  Mishaps, and in particular, mishaps that result in the loss of some or all of the crew were relatively rare events.  In the early 1990’s though we had a spate of losses that spiked the rate.  In one relatively short period [...]

30 November 2007 Update:  Navy reports finding remains of LT Betton.
 LT Ryan K. Betton, USN:  Ryan “Tater” Betton was assigned to VAW-120, following a fleet tour with the Liberty Bells of VAW-115, homeported in Japan and assigned to CVW-15 on the USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63).  Ryan, an Ann Arbor, Michigan native and current resident of [...]

Third Sub has been hauled down, mast held and NJP duly administered:

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So it’s like this - the Slavemaster Pops (aka SJS) is out of town this week and left us with a boooring article to post for this Friday (some biplane *bleh*).  Frankly, we think he needs to widen his view and we think the Voodoo is a perfect one  to start with.  Besides, it just [...]

 
NORFOLK — The Navy gave up its hunt for three missing aviators this afternoon and declared them deceased after searching the ocean off North Carolina for them since Wednesday night.
Navy spokesman Mike Maus said the Navy concluded there was no chance the three had survived the crash of their E-2C Hawkeye aircraft into the ocean [...]

 
…Ably defined…

 
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Must be more of that over 30 humor, huh Pops?  Or is that what happens if you spend too much time in the "joint" environment? 
BTW, have you OD’d yet on that Homerus Simpsonus or Americanus, or whatever that thing was you said you were looking for last week?
Oh yeah, we’ve decided [...]