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Competition in the South China Sea
At its root it is all about resources — protein to supplement meager domestic harvests and oil to drive economies that governments push to unnatural and unsustainable annual growth. It is about an emergent regional power, poised on the brink of asserting itself as something more, flexing new-found muscle in new domains and deepening…
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Russian Tu-95MS Bombers Set Flight Duration Record
Perusing the usual pull from a variety of sources, happened across this item: Two Russian Tu-95MS Bear-H strategic bombers have carried out a record-breaking 40-hour patrol over three oceans, an Air Force spokesman said on Thursday, RIA Novosti reported. “The Tu-95MS bombers carried out patrols over the Arctic, the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans and…
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Progress – However You Measure It
Couple of items of note form the past week re. the future fleet: VAW-120 Receives First Fleet E-2D Advanced Hawkeye NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) — The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, the Navy’s newest airborne early warning and control aircraft, was delivered to the fleet July 29 at Naval Station Norfolk. Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations,…
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Channeling E.A.P. ?
Via ‘Phib comes a link to check your writing style and it looks like . . . I write like Edgar Allan Poe I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! Wonder if my Freshman English prof is still around. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting,…
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The ENTERPRISE Petition – A Gentle Reminder
Underway once again, Fleet CQ in VACAPES… Background here. Petition here. Over 3,000 signatures as of today (28 July) — let’s keep pressing. 50th Anniversary of her christening is coming up in September. Just think, what a great way to kick off the 100th anniversary of Naval Aviation next year with the naming of the…
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Catching Up: Russia, The PAK-FA and Bulava SLBM
Have been a bit sparing of late on posting here and at USNI, in large part because the day job(s) have been demanding their pound (more like tens of pounds) of flesh. And developments appear to promise a major surge on one front in the next few weeks, so we’ll take advantage of the relative…
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Saturday Matinee
Cars, chases and guns…but not what you think (see esp. beginning at 7:34)…. (h/t: SailorBob)
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Seven Missing WWII Airmen Identified
In the mail: Seven Missing WWII Airmen Identified The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of seven servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors. Army Capt. Joseph M. Olbinski, Chicago; 1st Lt. Joseph J. Auld,…
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US Space Program: Lost in Place?
What is the mission of NASA? No — Seriously, what is NASA’s mission? Is it to be the lead Agency for exploration in the fields of aeronautics and space? Discovering new technologies, opening new vistas of engineering and scientific knowledge for further exploration and utilization by US industry and the free nations of the world?…
