Maybe you’ve seen it before, maybe you haven’t. Still bears viewing. As important as one of the bases for the Maritime Strategy as it is for the local school board in building its strategic vision and mapping out budgetary direction.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I’d planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the…
The three maritime services get together and hammer out a strategic vision that ties them together, informing their future planning for training, equipping and manning. They show up in Congress, testify before the HASC (all three together for the first time) and are generally well received. Certainly not eviscerated like the CSAF who was told…
So – life as a Sailor in this modern Navy — you’ve caught glimpses here and at other spots like Lex’s, Pinch, and Yankee Sailor. But that’s the view from Officer Country. Southern logs in this week with some thoughts across a wide-range of topics from the enlisted POV. We’ve said it before and will…
9 August 1952 The flight of four Hawker Sea Furies were in a loose formation, scanning the terrain below hunting for targets of opportunity – opportunity in this case being trains carrying elements of the Chinese "peoples volunteer" army south to fight UN forces. Battles were still fierce this late in 1952 – even as…
Heads-up fighter dudes — all those years of shooting at hapless drones may soon be over: Comes word, courtesy Defense Industry Daily that the QF-4 may be getting a new capability — to bite back: Yep — that’s a QF-4 firing the missile, an unmanned QF-4. No word on if it’s an AAM or ASM…
Hello Gloucester, County of Gloucestershire, England! You were #50,000 @ 11:42:44 EST today when you stopped by to checkout Southern Air Pirate’s guest post about transiting the Suez Canal. Thanks for stopping by!
Then:  (CIA A-12 Recce mission on 26 January) Now: Taedong River, Pyongyang, North Korea ( 38°59’27.83″N x 125°43’32.13″E) Remember: Remember: Read the story here, here or here. A clearly provactive and illegal hijacking on the high seas by the North Koreans – and compounded by inexplicably poor contingency planning on the part of US…
Blackjacks, Backfires, Bears; Black Sea Fleet and Northern Fleet ships – all joining up for a large combined exercise in the Bay of Biscay beginning 23 Jan 08 according to open press reports. “The air force is taking a very active part in the exercises of the navy’s strike force in the Atlantic,” the Russian air…
