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…
Reverberations continue this week over the Chinese ASAT test and allegations of Iranian and North Korean cooperative development of nukes and long range missiles; meanwhile Iran continues to rattle the cage with announcement of another Shahab-3 test and a “new†sub-surface ship killer missile; India announces its intent to establish a dedicated aerospace defense command…
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…
Laser DefenseNot a perfect weapon (toxic chemicals and handling issues) and not cheap. Probably a victim of the “better vs best” arguments, but if it had been deployed in even a limited sense on the northern border of Israel as originally envisioned, one wonders what different actions Israel would be taking today.
On Thursday, 30 April 2009, the Navy’s newest Center of Excellence (COE), the Navy Air and Missile Defense Center, was opened for business onboard the Naval Weapons Development Center, Dahlgren Virginia. RADM Brad Hicks, who is also the Aegis BMD program director, will serve as the Center’s first commander until a permanent flag is assigned…
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…
Coming into this off-cycle budget expectations were that an Administration that had shown, for lack of a better term, restrained enthusiasm, towards missile defense on the campaign trail would seek to shut the program down as part of its cost-saving plans. Indeed, with the SECDEF’s announcements on 6 April where some very high profile and…
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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