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Flightdeck Friday: Desperate Times = Desperate Measures

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(h/t to Southern Air Pirate for the topic suggestion) 29 April 1975.  South Vietnam is ceasing to exist as a geopolitical entity – Saigon is falling.  Under leaden skies, the assembled ships and aircraft of  TF 76, headed by carriers Hancock and Midway begin executing Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of US personnel along with Vietnamese…

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…

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One Second After – Of EMP and Post-Apocolypse America (Part 2)

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With the previous article as prologue, we turn to the review of the work at hand – One Second After, by William R. Forstchen (forward by Newt Gingrich). The premise for One Second After lies in the devastating effects of an EMP attack carried out by employing a few nukes launched in an asymmetric strike. …

Gray Eagles

Gray Eagles

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A little something for your viewing pleasure going into Veteran’s Day… Filmmaker and P-51 Mustang Pilot Chris Woods has put together a wonderful film that captures the emotional reunion between a humble WWII Mustang ace (Jim Brooks) and the historic plane he thought he’d never see again. Inspired by the flood of memories triggered by…

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Naval Aviation Centennial: One Astronaut, A Future Astronaut and Reaching for New Heights

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Forty-nine years ago – within one day of each other, one astronaut headed for orbit as America’s first to circle the Earth and a future astronaut opened a series of record attempts in the McDonell F4H Phantom: Images Courtesy Rex Features & NASA 20 Feb 1962: Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn. USMC, in Mercury spacecraft…