Steeljaw Scribe

Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment…

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E-2D Update

April 23rd, 2008 7 Comments

Full story here:  Flight-Test Program Accelerates For U.S. Navy’s E-2D  
Couple of items worth noting:
Within three years, the U.S. Navy’s fleet will have fielded the technology for precisely locating small, flying targets. The target set embraces some of the Navy’s latest nightmares, including the next-generation of stealthy - sometimes supersonic - cruise missiles.Moreover, with [...]

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Foras una, multa: VAW Forty-One Years Later

April 1st, 2008 No Comments

Pausing for a moment to acknowledge this signatory event in VAW history before returning to the discussion on the MS later today… -SJS

1967: VAW-11 (West coast) and VAW-12 (East coast) constitute the two largest squadrons in the Navy with some 200 officers and 800 enlisted each.  Each squadrom supports 4 plane E-1B Tracer (better known [...]

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Saturday Matinee

March 8th, 2008 5 Comments

Mike wonders aloud at how the VAW community seems to have a surfeit of talent when it comes to making videos - *we* all know it comes from our regular dosing of Vitamin R in the form of the megawatt+ of energy we haul around with us.  How else can one explain the likes of [...]

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