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Flightdeck Friday!

BySteeljawscribe 13 October 2006

Well, a little different this week —

Happy 231st Birthday Navy!

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ex-USS Ray (DD 971) To Be Sunk During RIMPAC ’08
BySteeljawscribe 26 June 20088 September 2008

Now you see her… Soon, you won’t: Familiar Destroyer Will Be Sunk In Naval Exercises (KITSAP SUN 25 JUN 08) … Ed Friedrich Frequent drivers along Sinclair Inlet are probably wondering what happened to the big Navy ship that used to be moored in the bay. That was the destroyer David R. Ray, and it…

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The Sinking of the INS EILAT: 50th Anniversary of the First Surface to Surface Engagement with ASCM’s
BySteeljawscribe 21 October 201721 October 2017

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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2014 Hawkeye-Greyhound Symposium POSTEX
BySteeljawscribe 6 November 2014

Did you miss the Symposium this year? Fear not – all you would like to know may be found over at the Hawkeye-Greyhound Association’s site – pics, briefs, and a summary. Just head over here

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ex-USS Horne (CG-30): More Fodder for RIMPAC ’08
BySteeljawscribe 27 June 200830 March 2010

Like the ex-USS Davd R. Ray (DD-971) reported on yesterday, The Horne is also slated to be used as a target for the upcoming RIMPAC ’08 exercise. Fifth ship of the Belknap-class and named for the VCNO during most of WWII, ADM Fredrick J. Horne, she was commissioned 15 April 1967 with then-CAPT Stansfield Turner…

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Naval Strategy Documents Available Online
BySteeljawscribe 3 October 200728 March 2010

John Hattendorf’s latest edited volume — "U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1970s: Selected Documents" — has just been posted in .pdf format on the Naval War College’s website. It is currently at the printer and hard copies will be available at a date to be announced. See http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/newportpapers/documents/NP30JH.pdf This new 1970s volume reproduces 5 documents…

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Flightdeck Friday: Flight of the Truculent Turtle
BySteeljawscribe 25 September 200829 September 2010

Fifty-five hours and 18minutes.Â 11,236.6 nautical miles.Â No GPS, no inertial nav, no fly-by-wire, no computers save the biologic ones and the whizwheels.Â No movies, no SATCOM, no sleeper seats.Â No in-flight refueling – no stops.Â No digital weather radar.Â Four aircrew, one nine-month old baby ‘roo and 8,592 gallons of AVGAS. Non-stop, Austalia to…

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