Things That Make You Go ‘Hmmmm…’: US Flag Vessel Forced to Take Evasive Action
(Didn’t see this one get much play in the open press…)
US Flag Vessel Forced to Take Evasive Action to Avoid Ramming
(Didn’t see this one get much play in the open press…)
US Flag Vessel Forced to Take Evasive Action to Avoid Ramming
Unlike most sales, arms sales have a wider impact beyond the primary parties (buyer/seller) and indeed, the recent announcement of the long sought sale of an improved S300 system to Iran by Russia has a wider circle of interested parties and corresponding impact beyond those two. First, though, we begin with the buyer. Iran – Filling…
Chalk this one under the “It’s About Time” column: PRESS ADVISORIES from the United States Department of Defense No. 032-07April 11, 2007Media Contact: (703) 697-5131/697-5132Public/Industry(703) 428-0711 The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James T. Conway, will announce the deployment of the first operational MV-22 Osprey squadron in a press briefing on Friday at 11…
OK, so here’s the line-up for this w/end: Flightdeck Friday — what can YOU do with 4300 hp worth of radial engine? A plane only Tim Allen could love is up for tomorrow’s posting… Saturday — We hear again from Hobbes and his buddy and for good measure, with all the Tomcat sunset stories making…
Prologue This past weekend Your Humble Scribe (YHS) was engaged in fleet maintenance of the various assorted vehicles assembled under his garage’s roof. Whilst pausing between oil changes (and silently cursing the designers and engineers who placed oil filters cheek-to-jowl with exhaust headers) he gave reflection to the variety of speedmobiles that have graced said…
(the new Moskva/ex-Slava CSG) Shades of days of yore, the Moskva joined up with the Kuznetsov carrier group (or корабельной ударной группы (КУГ) – ship assault echelon (KUG)) for joint exercises conducted on the 20th. Sailing from her (or, if you perfer, his in the Russian vernacular) base at Sevastopol on the 12th, the…
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…