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Progress – However You Measure It
Couple of items of note form the past week re. the future fleet: VAW-120 Receives First Fleet E-2D Advanced Hawkeye NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) — The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, the Navy’s newest airborne early warning and control aircraft, was delivered to the fleet July 29 at Naval Station Norfolk. Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations,…
Postcards from Deployment: Don’t Do Stupid Things
Today’s postcard from Southern is a look at another side of life at sea and one that’s not always pleasant – the enforcement of good order and discipline. The further up the leadership chain one finds onself, the greater the expectations are for standards of conduct and professionalism – and the greater the penalties for…
Search Called-off for Missing VAW-120 Crew-UPDATED 17 Aug 07
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…
Northrop-Grumman With Inside Track on Next-Gen Bomber?
At a cool (and covert) $2B, N-G’s Integrated Technology division has been funded to build a demonstrator which may be a twin-engine aircraft resembling an X-47B according to this AW&ST article released today. There is some discussion that an extended range, unmanned bomber will follow based on knowledge gained from the secret-demonstrator, but that runs…
Postcards from Deployment: Doin’ the Ditch
When last heard from, Southern Air Pirate was sampliing the joys of liberty in Naples. His latest missive recounts the experience of transiting the Suez Canal beginning in Port Said as the Truman CSG presses on to relieve the Enterprise CSG. To help set the stage, see the map below (click to enlarge): Well we…