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Flightdeck Friday: The Last Great Battle in the Pacific – Okinawa

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The conversation this past week has been centered on the Maritime Strategy – appropriate in light of the events of sixty-three years ago and the signatory role seapower and all three maritime services played then.  While we have yet another post on the current strategy in the Alert 30 posture (day time jobs do have…

Flightdeck Friday: Countdown to Midway – IJN Carrier-based Air Order of Battle (AOB)

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KIDO BUTAI First Carrier Striking Force VADM Nagumo Chuichi Chief of Staff: RADM Kusaka Ryunosuke Carrier Division 1 – VADM Nagumo Akagi (flagship) – Captain Aoki Taijiro, commanding 18 x A6M2 carrier fighters (aka Zero) 18 x D3A1 carrier bombers (aka Val) 18 x B5N2 carrier attack aircraft (aka Kate) 6 x A6M2 fighters (6th…

Flightdeck Friday: Valour-IT Video Edition – UPDATED

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(5 Nov Update):  Read this for some perspective on the competiton.  Check current status here.  And don’t forget the auctions — there’s some really great stuff over there, including signed original artwork and books, rare memorabilia and other great things. So it’s not Friday – but as promised here, presented for your viewing pleasure, a…

The Sinking of the INS EILAT: 50th Anniversary of the First Surface to Surface Engagement with ASCM’s
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The Sinking of the INS EILAT: 50th Anniversary of the First Surface to Surface Engagement with ASCM’s

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The following is an extract of a larger work I am preparing on fifty years of ASCM combat use and hopefully will be available in the coming year. – SJS Forces – Israel. The INS EILAT (K40) was originally commissioned in 1944 as the HMS ZEALOUS, a Z-class destroyer that saw extensive action as convoy…

Flightdeck Friday: RF-8 Crusaders and BLUE MOON

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(Consider it an early weekend present — enjoy!  Now, get to reading that new Maritime Strategy – lots of discussions next week and some surprises in the offering on this site…stay tuned.  -SJS) 15 Oct 1962.  Imagery from U-2 flights begun on the 14th continue to roll in for imagery analysts at NPIC (National Photographic…

Eating the Elephant – One Bite at a Time

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For those not so inclined to leap with both feet into the full Appropriations Bills (regular, continuing and sustaining minus the funds for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan), here is a Congressional Research Service study of current Defense Authorization and Appropriations bills with analysis of some of the more important parts (like shipbuilding – pg…