Steeljaw Scribe

…at least Blue Ridge’s take on it:

Now - about those sonar exercises…
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Some art and photos from the archives, bound together with a classic score - for your weekend’s pleasure. - SJS
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12 Jun 1944: In the first deployment of a guided missile unit into a combat theater, elements of Special Task Air Group 1 arrived in the Russell Islands in the South Pacific.  (ed: and in case you’re wondering - yes, there was a Flightdeck Friday  on the subject. - SJS)
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How’s your damage control training program? Is it ready to face the likes of what caused this damage? Ready for something that lasts longer than a standard GQ battle problem - measured in days not hours or minutes? Oh and about the PRT program too…
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…in choosing a swampy, fetid pit of humours to locate the nation’s capitol was prescient - before air-conditioning.  It had to be since days like the last few (heat index +130 deg F) drove Congress and the balance of the ruling class out of town and in so doing, protected the rest of the country [...]

SM-2 Intercept of SRBM 5 Jun 08  

Aegis, Sm-2 Interceptors Kill Target Missile In Terminal-Phase Success
(DEFENSE DAILY 06 JUN 08) … Dave Ahearn
The Aegis weapon control system guided two Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptors that obliterated a target missile in its terminal phase of flight, as the foreign-built unitary Scud-like target missile descended [...]

So - wrapping up our TDY this week and hopping the (ugh) red-eye back to Occupied Territory for to make it back for a libs this weekend before back to the grind Monday. While we’ve been concentrating on Midway this past week, there is this other event over in the ETO that took place in [...]

“I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success.“
- Fleet Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto
In racing there is a saying - ‘luck is where preparation meets opportunity’ Perhaps there is no truer an example than the Battle of Midway. Popular literature seems to emphasize the American forces stumbling into [...]

1 GB from twenty years ago and 1 GB today… (h/t PC World   via entrecard  )
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In carrying out the task assigned … you will be governed by the principle of calculated risk, which you shall interpret to mean the avoidance of exposure of our forces without good prospect on inflicting, as a result of such exposure, greater damage on the enemy. (Extract from CINCPAC Operational Order to TF 17 Commander)

In [...]