Bush administration finalizes military attack on Iran Wayne Madsen Report January 2, 2006 Wayne Madsen January 2, 2006 -- Intelligence indications and warnings abound as Bush administration finalizes military attack on Iran.

AP source: US Navy has encounter with Iranian jet http://america-hijacked.com/2010/04/28/ap-source-us-navy-has-encounter-with-iranian-jet/ Additional via http://AMERICA-HIJACKED.COM

http://3news.co.nz/Skyhawkssalegetsastepcloser/tabid/419/articleID/66873/cat/67/Default.aspx Skyhawks sale gets a step closer Wed, 13 Aug 2008 5:16p.m. The Air Force's white elephants, the A4 Skyhawks, are one step closer to finally being sold, seven years after they were grounded. Defence...

FURTHER F-22 PRODUCTION IS CRUCIAL TO WINNING FUTURE WARS. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1294.shtml FURTHER F-22 PRODUCTION IS CRUCIAL TO WINNING FUTURE WARS Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D. Issue Brief Jul 16, 2008

Anybody heard anything yet? My best guess (and ONLY a guess) is bird ingestion.... Anything would be appreciated... Regards,

According to the following article, USS Ronald Reagan, despite coming back from her maiden deployment not so long ago, is going to make up for the temporary inavailability of USS Kitty Hawk (being in maintenance) in SE Asia: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/01/ntREAGAN070111/ Any ideas what...

See: http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=27323 Any bets on what's next, since there's now a Lincoln, and to-be Ford .... g MW

I bought a copy of Air Forces Monthly last weekend, that includes an overview of the current USN carrier wing compositions. To my amazement I saw that CVW-17 currently doesn't seem to have _any_ Hornet squadrons assigned to it. Until recently it had four: VFA-103 Jolly Rogers is part of CVW-7, as...

From http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,97576,00.html The Self-Locking F-22 Robert Bryce | May 17, 2006 Last week, Lockheed Martin announced that its profits were up a hefty 60 percent in the first quarter. The company earned $591 million in profit on revenues of $9.2 billion. Now, if the...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-16-navy-tomcat_x.htm

Hi, - I was to an air show awhile back. I was inspecting a Navy A6 Intruder. I caught the exhaust end of the tail pipe and noticed a circumference of mesh "feathers" on the inner ID, that honestly looked like dragonfly wings, gossamer in texture. I wonder what the function of this is, what the...

"dano" wrote in message ... Looks like the NZ Skyhawks have been sold. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/610262 Leaving them with what? Hoges in WA

In the early days of December 1980 a single F-14 took off from Khatami Air Base in Esfehan. The pilot was patrolling and scanning the sky over the Persian Gulf about 60 to 70 miles west of Bushehr at an altitude of about 3 to 4 thousand ft. ,when ground radar advised the F-14 pilot of multiple...

Jim wrote: http://www.news.navy.mil/view_photos.asp?page=5&sort_type=0&sort_row=1 Ribbons on the dungaree uniform? It's not a dungaree uniform. Not to mention nearly three rows for a PO3, give me a break. Why not? Could have been the result of a meritorious bust from PO1.

Flying high Lockheed Martin yesterday won a $1.7 billion contract to build a new fleet of presidential helicopters, a prestigious award for the Bethesda defense contractor and its European partners, who will make part of the aircraft. at...

When I was in the P3 community (VP31), I was sent to NUW for Survival School. I forget how long it lasted, but I recall the "ogre muthas" giving us a time or two. It was cold and wet (February) and I recall they bused us out to some mountain for snow survival. I have no idea where the...

Hello folks, I just saw this link on yahoo news, I didn't see anything about it on www.news.navy.mil yet, probably soon. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050110/ap_on_re_as/tsunami_helicopter_crash All the story says is an SH-60 with 10 onboard crashed in Indonesia, near Banda...

Can anyone address this: Defense News on 28 June had this snip: "With F-14s as the only other carrier-based aircraft flying tanker duties, ..." It was in reference to the S-3 being retired and the F/A-18F having the ability to act as a tanker. Anyone know of the Tomcat being used in the role of...

Both chinfo.navy.mil and history.navy.mil appear to be offline; I keep getting DNS errors when I try to access them. Did the Navy change their URLs?

Kerry had a total of four months experience commanding a patrol boat as part of the brown water navy in Vietnam thirty years ago. Bush has over two and a half years (and counting) experience commanding the most lethal military force ever seen in the history of man! So who actually has the most...