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…
March 2011. The still of the pre-dawn darkness is only slightly disturbed by the passage of a container ship. Like the many thousands of others like her plying the ocean’s ways, this one’s cargo is neatly stacked on the deck — ISO shipping containers in a multitude of colors and shippers markings. …
Lost in the turmoil these past few days of the NIE debate, the missing waterboarding tapes, Oprahpaloosa, etc. were two announcements of note out of India. The first was their claim of a successful anti-tactical ballistic missile (ATBM) test using an interceptor based on the indigenously developed-Prithvi SRBM missile, earlier this week with presumably…
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…
Referenced article here. From Ria Novosti comes news today that this time ’round, the DPRK gets it…sort of: North Korea has informed Russia that it has signed up to an international treaty and convention on space, a Russian Foreign Ministry source said on Thursday. “The Foreign Ministry of Russia, being a depositary state, received on…
According to some reports from various locations (I’ll begin with Hudson Institute’s as that is where I first read it with a h/t to Xformed for his heads-up) it would appear that back in October, Iran and Venezuela signed an agreement that, among other things, would establish a joint base in Venezuela as well as…
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