A "twofer" today … (Aug 2 – multiple sources but h/t to The DEW Line) The Navy has announced Northrop-Grumman’s X-47B won the bid over Boeing’s X-45 for the $635M UCAS-D contract. Couple of items to note — when Boeing lost the JSF bid to Lockheed, they immediately jumped on the UCAV bandwagon and hoped…
Something here for everyone – props & jets, straight deck carriers and battleships ("…a typical task force consisted of 3-4 carriers and a couple of battleships…" *sigh* those were the days – ed.), UNREPing a Gearing-class DD and more. Transferred from home movies shot by an F9F pilot during the period 1953-54, the narrative is…
The History Department of the United States Naval Academy has resumed its sponsorship of the biennial Annapolis Naval History Symposia. (The last scheduled Symposium had had to be cancelled due to the events of 9-11-2001). The next Symposium will take place 20-22 September 2007 (with the following one scheduled for 2009). PROGRAM: (See Program here)…
No. 956-07 IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 02, 2007 Media Contact: (703) 697-5131/697-5132 Public/Industry(703) 428-0711 Flag Officer Announcements Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced today that the President has made the following nominations: Navy Adm. Gary Roughead has been nominated for reappointment to the grade of admiral and assignment as chief of naval operations, the Pentagon,…
"Meme — Inbound, port side; single, low, slow. Warning Red; Weapons Free…" Seems someone over here has some excess time on their hands and thought to tar Lex and YHS with the notorious “List eight habits or facts about yourself, then tag eight more people” meme. First thought was:
From strategypage.com comes this story of life imitating art: Snakes on a Plane Bring F-16 Down Apparently, a poisonous insect or snake in the cockpit brought down a Dutch F-16 in Afghanistan last August. After a 11 month investigation, that ended up as the only plausible explanation for the loss. The dead pilot did not…
Nah – just the latest in Iran’s attempts at an indigenously developed fighter… Nice tailfins though… (h/t: The DEW Line)
Story sub-arc starts here ‘New day, new site, new mission.’ ‘Well, kind of’ thought the CICO as he prepared for landing. ‘Wonder what luck we’ll have with this change in venue…’ Settling to the runway, the Hawkeye made the midfield intersection and turned for the transient ramp. At the far end it, it was led…
If you are in the Greater NYC area today and are interested in compelling stories, you need to head over and meet Brad Peniston: The National Maritime Historical Society has invited me to talk about “No Higher Honor: Saving the Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf” tomorrow near their New York headquarters. When: noon,…
Some folks think that by enabling that most noxious of programs spawned from the den of inequity otherwise known as Redmond, WA to be displayed via the bolgsphere is…progress? Forsooth! Cease and desist! Do ye know not what evil thou hast loosed upon this goode land? Evidently this most humble of scribes and servants needs…
