I want you guys to know that your Northern Neigbhour is just as drunk as we usually are and dont have anybody on our Radar Stations except Trained Seals and if you come up here there is basically nowhere to get a good beer except NewFoundland. That is All.

....try http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cool.pix with Patrouille de France, Rafale, Mirage, Concorde, the helicopters families : Eurocopter, Agusta-Westland

The Navy has awarded LockMart a contract to demonstrate the release of Mk-54 torpedoes from high altitudes and long standoff ranges. See: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Navy_Selects_LockMart_For_MK_54_Torpedoes_High_Altitude_Launch_Capability.html The article mentions the possible future use of...

Really well done.... worth checking out. From the look at the battle of the USS Laffey (And US air cover of the day, tactics, the ship herself, etc.) to the stuff on the Okha program to the look at a German ramming squadron in the last days of the war in Europe, really well done stuff.

Nobuyoshi Koremoto, an ex-skipper of JDS Amatsukaze that participated in RIMPAC 1980, wrote in the August 2010 issue of the Ship of the World that in the 1980 exercise a flight of Australian A-4G Skyhawks from HMAS Melbourne playing an 'Orange' force carrier attacked USS Constellation, which was...

This is my first post in many years. I am looking for any information about why HMS Campania missed the signal to sortie to the Battle of Jutland. Most accounts I've found state this as the reason, (one or two accounts say engine problems.) Her position in the anchorage at Scapa Flow was stated...

In one of her later commissions HMS Eagle "acquired" a black patch on her port side, under the crane for the ships boats. It can be seen in the two pictures on the left hand side of this page... http://www.hmsminerva.info/photos1.htm Ark Royal didn't have such a patch as far as I have ever...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/royals/article1370117.ece Looks like another RN warship is keeping the Iron Duke name strong! Prince William was involved in the chopper crew....

While trying to get a better view of a WWI era British RN BB gun turret, I found: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/HMS_Revenge_%281916%29_profile_drawing.png IMHO a nice set of color line drawings! OK, not that unusual, both the top (front and rear) main gun turrets, have wood...

Gentlemen, I was thinking, in the war against insect pests, what is it that we have that they lack? Computers. Not just computers to design fancy pesticide formulas. I'm talking about something we can activate to zap them while we are sitting on the couch watching TV. In particular, mosquitoes...

If you loved the film and JUST have to have your own Grumman F9F Panther fighter. http://www.airplane-pictures.net/image14632.html Take care . . . John

I recently saw a painting of Horatio Nelson, sword in hand, in combat. The expression on his face is neutral. A commentary with the painting used the phrase "violence phlegmatically delivered." I would like to find a copy of the painting. Appreciate any leads.

Looks like US Navy searches smthng on the bottoms of Hormuz straits. May somebody put quite a few mines down there. Manta or kinda? If they may work on that depths...

Looks like US Navy searches smthng on the bottoms of Hormuz straits. May somebody put quite a few mines down there. Manta or kinda? If they may work on that depths...

F-18 lost power during takeoff at Raleigh NC's RDU airport, and ended up in a burning pile beside runway 2L - pilot ejected OK, apparently unhurt. Hornet is still burning like hell, despite a huge amout of foam, no injuries on the ground, and a few airliners have taken off since the accident.

Hi all. I'm just about finished with what I think is going to be a pretty realisitc freeware Hornet HUD for the MS flight simulator. Being the newbie wannabe Hornet pilot that I am (heheh), I have a few questions that may seem silly, but I would like to get some of these finer details right. I was...

House OKs ban on flag burning, Do Something. Newsday WASHINGTON - "The House yesterday approved a constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to ban desecration of the American flag, a measure rejected twice by the Senate in the past decade but expected to get a closer vote this...

As an armchair admiral, I've always wondered how A/C in WWII knew how to find the carrier after being away for a couple hours on a mission. I assume the pilots were told, roughly, where the carrier plans to be, but sh*t happens. I always assume the carrier doesn't broadcast any radio signals. How...

The Quad Tiltrotor is too big to be hangared on any ship the Navy has so it really needs to operate from land bases. Would it just be used for delivering people and small items to flatops (full carriers and Ampihbs) or use the ships as lillypads to support deep raids? Which service will...

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...