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The Fukushima Daiishi Incident
As explained by an industry leader: The Fukushima Daiishi Incident h/t: “a nuke” (self-described…)
R.I.P. for the Royal Navy?
Have been reading Ian Toll’s Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy during my recent travels. Very interesting read of not just the construction and operation of these ships, the most famous of course being Constitution, but also of the founding of the Navy as a cabinet-level service with a…
КраÑÐ½Ð°Ñ Ð·Ð²ÐµÐ·Ð´Ð° вторник (Red Star Tuesday): Blackjacks in Venezuela
(courtesy longtime reader SJBill) Tu 160 Deployment To Venezuela View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: russia tu-160) Graphic of TU-160 Â Also this note via RIA Novosti concerning the heavy cruiser “Peter the Great” and his accompanying ships:”A Russian naval task force departed Monday on a tour of duty in the Atlantic Ocean,…
Saturday Matinee: Red Flag
For your Saturday viewing pleasure – and no Lex, those were Canadian Hornets…
Of Wargames, JSFs and Baby Seals (II)
“Be modest about what military force can accomplish, and what technology can accomplish. The advances in precision, sensor, information and satellite technology have led to extraordinary gains in what the U.S. military can do…But also never neglect the psychological, cultural, political, and human dimensions of warfare, which is inevitably tragic, inefficient, and uncertain. Be skeptical…
10th Nimitz-class Christened
(Washington Post 8 Oct 06) NEWPORT NEWS, Oct. 7 — Despite a steady downpour that chilled thousands gathered Saturday in the shipyard here, President Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, basked in the warm embrace of extended family and friends as they celebrated the christening of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after the former…