While looking for something else, reading site: http://www.silent-warriors.com/shootdown_list.html I found this bummer: 25 May 1968 A Soviet Tu-16 Badger buzzed a group of US Navy vessels, including the USS Essex (CVS-9), off the coast of northern Norway. Shortly after passing low over the Essex,...

See: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russian_Carrier_Plans_Part_One_999.html Nice plans, but can they be carried out?

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CG(X) And The Future Of Naval Warfare. Lexington Institute. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/docs/795.pdf

Defense Industry Daily 03-Dec-2007 20:55 F-35 JSF Hit by Serious Design Problems (updated) by Johan Boeder in The Netherlands. Earlier versions of this article have been published in the Dutch press and Defense-Aerospace. DID has worked with the author to create an edited, updated version with...

The RAFS Reunion for 2008 is is go. This URL http://www.r-a-f-s.org/ has all the details. Launch Em!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anything I might say would only spoil it. If you've got seven minutes to spare, take a look........I don't think you'll regret it (at least I didn't). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6h8i8wrajA&eurl=http://www.theospark.blogspo

Putin now with his sham election is finished is back to military power moves. In the context of Arms sales to US foes like Chavez, Bear bomber back in the air, and talk of ending conventional force treaties; this guy is worth keeping a eye on. Yahoo! News Russian navy to start sorties in...

Divining Victory: Airpower in the Israel-Hezbollah War by William Arkin http://aupress.maxwell.af.mil/Books/Arkin/ArkinDownload.html http://aupress.maxwell.af.mil/Books/Arkin/ArkinDownload.html (355 pages)

FlightGlobal.com December 4, 2007 V-22 Mishap Probe Prompts US Fleet Restrictions By Stephen Trimble Believing a design defect aboard the Bell-Boeing V-22 is likely to blame for a second in-flight engine fire, the US Navy has placed a flight restriction on the US domestic Osprey fleet and...

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Year 2010. President Hillary Clinton names CVN-78 after William J. Clinton. Year 2025. President Chelsea Clinton names CVN-85 after Hillary R. Clinton.

My brother sent me this link: http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/ I don't know the photographer from Adam, but he did take some nice shots. Good advertising for the Nikon D50 too. The SF bay looks like a natural environment for an airshow. Guess I'll have to head out there one of these years for...

According to: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htnavai/articles/20071128.aspx "The B-2 can carry Harpoon anti-ship missiles." Since when?

I was reading an interesting paper on China's 'naval dilemma' (..basically whether to base it's navy on carriers or submarines), and came across this quote: 'In 1954 alone, in working to master jet aviation off carriers, the U.S. Navy lost nearly eight hundred aircraft' Paper: China's aircraft...

CBO - Modernizing the Army's Rotary-Wing Aviation Fleet http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/88xx/doc8865/11-30-Helicopters.pdf

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Philadelphia Inquirer October 9, 2007 First Ospreys Land In Iraq; One Arrives After 2 Setbacks By Jay Price, McClatchy Newspapers BAGHDAD-- The V-22 Osprey has arrived in a combat zone for the first time.