19 may 2007 – One day after the future Wayne E. Meyer keel was laid:
Earlier this week – The Navy’s newest Aegis-destroyer heads to sea for super trials. USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) – the “Father of Aegis”
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At its root it is all about resources — protein to supplement meager domestic harvests and oil to drive economies that governments push to unnatural and unsustainable annual growth. It is about an emergent regional power, poised on the brink of asserting itself as something more, flexing new-found muscle in new domains and deepening…
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Here and elsewhere much has been written of the Doolittle raid, from the bookstand to Hollywood and the curriculum of War Colleges the world over. Coming fast on the heels of the stunning blows barely four months prior a malevolent arc of destruction and defeat stretching from Pearl Harbor back across the Pacific to…
NASA and other satellites monitoring and measuring the extent of the seasonal contraction of the Arctic ice pack have observed the greatest single year contraction in almost thirty years of observations. Illustration (1) below is a plot of the last two years of the ice pack. Illustration two is a composite of this years’ survey (click on…
Those dinosaurs amongst us remember them from another age – the ghostly lines that arced out from the geopolitical heartland of the Soviet Union. Head east from Norfolk or west from Pearl or San Diego and you’d trip the first one, established by the orbiting EORSAT and RORSATs, pricking interest in command centers back in…
An SM-3 launched from the USS DECATUR (DDG 73) successfully intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile target with a separating warhead* late yesterday in a test off Hawaii. Participating in the test were the USS PORT ROYAL and for the first time, a NATO partner, Spain, with the Aegis-equipped frigate Mendez Nunez (F-104). This was…
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Nice but it’s USS Wayne E. Meyer without the “s”. A simple Google research would have yielded the correct info before your post: http://www.meyer.navy.mil/default.aspx