I'm just about ready to add weapons to a Hasagawa 1/72 F/A-18F (decal option taken will be VFA-2), and would like to do a war-at-sea load. Besides the two AIM-9X and two AIM-120s that came with the kit, what weapons would be suitable for a mixed war-at-sea load? I'm thinking 2x HARM, and 2x...

China's super-power solid-state laser is a world-class, with its launch of the laser beam 3, 1000 kilometers in the distance was 35K joules per square centimeter of energy density, this energy density than the missile attacks on the threshold necessary for the destruction of nearly a order of...

Iraq Veterans Against the War http://ivaw.org Chris Branch: Army National Guard of the United States (ARNG) Rank: e-4 Home: Illinois I served in the Michigan Army National Guard for six years as a 13B

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(A "whitet" posted this below on shwwwii, IMHO it's a very interesting & informative read. Also plenty of pictures and some good diagrams of aircraft carrier & damage.) Sixty-four years ago today CV-13 Franklin was hit by two bombs dropped by a Japanese aircraft while operating off the coast of...

Here’s the link to a picture of a Navy NC-121 Super Constellation that I took in 1980. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9632389@N03/2560951879/ The plane was retired a couple of years later, flown to a museum in South Carolina, where it was left uncared for, and now only the forward 53 feet of the...

Funny cartoon! Bush and Putin as Darth Vaders ... http://tangibleinfo.blogspot.com/2007/06/putin-bush-poland-spaceweapons.html

I saw a video on YouTube of an F-14 exploding in midair in 1995 when it flew past a destroyer. What happened? I cannot find an explanation on the web. D

Dallas Morning News April 5, 2007 Osprey Ready For 'Real Test' V-22 Marine squadron is expected to go to Iraq this fall By Richard Whittle, Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON * The moment of truth for Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.'s

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I just have a thought of the above subject. Say you're the planner for an RN size navy, which one would you prefer, 4 x small CVBG or 1 x BIG CVBG? Say it's all for offensive purpose and not for homeland defence. I think it equates well in terms of tonnage and man power, but how about power...

As the air war over NVN heated up in 1966-67, why didn't the Navy adopt the SUU-23 gun pod on its Phantoms? The AF's 366th TFW certainly did, and got several MiG kills as a result of the pods' usage. What was the reason? NAVAIR not approve or what? Navy F-4 crews were screaming for a gun all...

Blair was told US 'fixed' case for war: http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0=AD/viewtopic.php?t=3D31665 MISSING CASEY:=20 http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0=AD/viewtopic.php?t=3D31646

wrote in message ... CHILDREN ABUSED AT ABU GHRAIB AS PARENTS FORCED TO WATCH http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=31071 If you must be a cross-posting Yahoo idiot, at least...

US Patriot missile crews heading to exercise in Israel http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=31010

Hi all, A report from a recent short visit to NAS Oceana. It seems that there have been a lot of changes with codes from the Tomcats. All serials marked with a * have been looked up in recent reports and/or the Scramble database. Any help on the gaps will be gratefully received. Although the...

Navy's flight base plan creates a flap in Carolina http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=612500 {EXCERPT} Independent, UK - 21 hours ago The Navy is planning to build a $186m (100m) training facility to allow pilots to simulate landing on aircraft carriers, smack in the...

Subject: NAVY LIFE SIMEX ~~~~~ NOTE: The following has been edited for land lubbers. ~~~~~ A "SIMEX" is a "SIMULATION EXERCISE" ~ a routine that replicates every conceivable aspect of the real event. ~ ~ ~

I just posted some pictures over in alt.binaries.pictures.aviation from 1956 in Port Lyautey French Morocco showing the above named aircraft. If I had known I was witnessing history I would have gotten closer to the Cutlasses. Greasy

The MH-60Ss involved are from HC-11. There are SH-60Fs and HH-60Hs from HS-2 on the Kennedy, and SH-60Bs from HSL-47 also operating from the Kennedy (presumably they would normally be based on the escorts). Not exactly true - when I read the "Forward... from the sea..." vision, I felt the Navy...