Steeljaw Scribe

Twin engines generating over 14,000 lb of total thrust powering the aircraft to a max speed of 710 mph at low altitudes and a service ceiling of 55,000 ft; provisions for a crew of two – one of whom was dedicated to work the powerful air intercept radar that was integrated into a weapons system [...]

(Breaking)  UPDATED - Full Transcript Here  .

Tanker Contract Award Announcement

Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Duncan J. McNabb will announce the KC-X contract award winner at 5 p.m. EST, Feb. 29, in the DoD Briefing Studio, Pentagon 2E579.
Assistant Secretary of the [...]

 
Comes word via ‘Phib 1 that the undertaker’s list   is out - and it is a long and grim one indeed.  When the Ensign and commissioning pennant are hauled down for the last time and the final crewmember walks off the brow, the countdown clock begins - to a museum, the breaker’s torch or [...]

YHS: Open a new post, Blog. 
Blog:  "Just what do you think you’re doing, Scribe? Scribe, I really think I’m entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn’t been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it’s going to be all right again. I feel much better now. [...]

…and a peak into the Scribe’s household…

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Next week - something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely blue…  In the meantime we offer something with a lighter touch this week, a little old school and a tip of the fedora to the plastic jet set too 0.

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OK, so trying to get back to some semblance of normalcy around these parts now that the rogue satellite has been dispatched.  We’re hoping the powers-that-be relent in their parsimonious attitude towards releasing video of the event, but given some of the organizations involved, doubt that will happen anytime soon.  Likewise being able to tell [...]

At the end of a very long day/night for YHS (that has stretched into the bright new dawn…):

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2008 - A network of land-, air-, sea- and spaced-based sensors confirms that the U.S. military intercepted a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite which was in its final orbits before entering [...]

UPDATE: 20 Feb (21 Feb UTC) MARK INDIA - all indications intercept successful  .  More to follow…
In the 24 hours since the press conference   announcing the decision to use a special modification of the Aegis BMD/SM-3 system to mitigate risk from the failed NRO satellite, reaction across the ‘verse (net) has been, well, predictable:
“It’s [...]

This is an Aegis Destroyer:

This is an Aegis Cruiser:

This is an SM-3, launched from an Aegis Cruiser or Destroyer:

This is a Delta, used to launch satellites.  From land.  Not ships.

Class over, back to your regularly scheduled programming…
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