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Air Warfare

♫♬ Oh When the Drone is Called Up Yonder... ♬♫

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♫♬…When the Drone is Called Up Yonder I’ll be There…♬♫ (with apologies to James M. Black)  First the news and a congratulatory note to the Navy-Industry team behind today’s launch of the X-47B off the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77): Of course, as any end-of-deployment flyoff crew knows, it is a heck of a [...] [...]

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Catching Up - ex-USS Ranger, Reviews and all

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Been a very busy winter and spring here in the Scribe’s household – between the demands of customer support during the Great Musudan Snipe Hunt and mom corporate’s demands for a tech writer, our days/nights/weekends have been filled with briefs, drafts (*not* of the liquid variety) and teleconferences measured in hours, not minutes; our time’s [...] [...]

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Strategic Communications - Getting it Wrong

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To the reader of this and other blogs, the concept of strategic communications (or stratcom) is not an unknown one.  Indeed a quick search over at Sal’s place, ID or USNI will yield threads on examples of stratcom utilization, if not the the subject itself.  Not long ago we touched on one interesting example in [...] [...]

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Ave Atque Vale - +1 Year

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(re-posted from last year) I lost a friend today. We have lost a friend, a father, husband — a comrade in arms. Fellow aviator and blogger-at-arms, Neptunus Lex, was killed earlier today when the F-21 Kfir he was flying in support of Top Gun’s adversary squadron crashed at NAS Fallon. No word on the cause [...] [...]

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USS Ranger - Sad News

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For some time now we’ve been hosting a link for the USS Ranger Foundation, a group dedicated to moving the ex-USS Ranger (CVA/CV-61) to a site in the northwest US for establishment as the centerpiece of a maritime museum.  Contingent on that hope was approval by the US Navy to do so and raising significant [...] [...]