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…
Disclaimer: I am not nor have I ever been an employee of N-G. Yes, I have over 3,000 hours in their E-2C and it is with that time, and the experiences it has brought across a wide playing field that the following is submitted. – SJS The final deliveries of supplies and materials for the…
Rear Admiral Meyer’s philosophy of “Build a Little, Test a Little, Learn a Lot” drove the testing and milestones of the Aegis system. Having witnessed problems with existing missile systems related to a lack of testing, tests that incorporated too many objectives, and failed system integration efforts requiring massive “get well” programs, he drove the…
Continuing the themes from yesterday’s post: a. India plans aerospace military command to oversee space-based assets: In yet more fallout from China’s ASAT test comes the announcement from India that they intend to “create an aerospace command to control and protect satellites and spacecraft orbiting the Earth.†Air Chief Marshal Shashi Tyagi said India was…
Stick around any job long enough and pretty soon you’ll find a pattern of repetition or cycles will emerge. When on active duty, it was inexorably tied to the CVW turnaround training cycle. This year we are now on the threshold of the 3rd North Korean space launch vehicle (SLV) attempt since 2006 and the…
The first Navy Aegis ship to be sent to Davey Jones’ locker now rests on the bottom of the Pacific, done in by a combination of missiles and gunfire. The decommissioned cruiser Valley Forge was sunk as part of a Nov. 2 target practice on a test range near Kauai, Hawaii, according to the U.S….
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.
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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