This is an Aegis Destroyer:
This is an Aegis Cruiser:
This is an SM-3, launched from an Aegis Cruiser or Destroyer:
This is a Delta, used to launch satellites. From land. Not ships.
Class over, back to your regularly scheduled programming…
I continue to be amazed (though I really shouldn’t by now) at the volume of email that is generated over the course of a generic three-day weekend. This past weekend was no exception to that rule either – especially as the miserly mailbox sizes set by the sysadmins is, well, miserly, one must spend the…
Lots to cover today: Airborne Laser (ABL) Passes Milestone Russia Declares for the Moon “by 2025” More Questions About the Bulava SLBM S-400 Triumf (SA-21) Production/Deployment Problems Second SS-27/Topol-M Battalion to Deploy By Year’s End More below the fold…
On 13 April 2010, the Presidents of the United States and Russia signed the collection of agreements and protocols which aggregated have been popularly called “New START,” following on the heels of the first START treaty, signed by President Bush and Secretary Gorbachev in July 1991, and the Moscow, signed by Presidents George W. Bush…
Previous Installments: Part I Part II Part III Ballistic missile defense is characterized by three pillars; offensive operations, passive defense and active defense all supported by command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I). Individually, each has its own advantages, challenges and measured success in application. However, it is not until they…
Quite a bit has occurred in the intervening week+ since the last roll-up so let’s jump right in, beginning with the latest on the European leg of the BMDS: GREEK PAPER DISCUSSES PROPOSED EUROPE MISSILE DEFENSE UMBRELLA AGAINST IRAN, Ta Nea (Greece), BBC Monitoring International Reports, March 14, 2007. NATO wants to install in Greece…
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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Great pictures. Makes me proud to be American!
Perhaps you could title this Friday’s musing as (dare I say it?) “Freudian Friday”?
Keep up the great work, and get well, soon!
Oh, c’mon! There’s a picture of a much more handsome and capable Burke here.
Okay, okay. I guess it’s not exactly a recce guide photo….
Actually, we have used that very photo, just in other (joint) fora…
-SJS
Yankee Sailor sez: There’s a picture of a much more handsome and capable Burke here.
I’m partial to DDG-87 and CG-61, myself. SN2 was the CHENG on both, at different points in time. 😀
The first Aegis Cruisers I saw have been stricken. My last trip to the IO/Circumnavigation was 21 years ago. But we can only hope the kids at Fox, et al get the message. Send it to Megyn Kelly. She’s adorable when she gets her knickers in a bunch