See: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boeing_Awarded_Contract_For_Next_Generation_Harpoon_Block_III_Missile_999.html How much longer will the Navy keep upgrading Harpoon before switching to a newer, possibly supersonic, weapon?

Finkelstein gives Israeli-American relations lecture http://media.sundial.csun.edu/media/storage/paper862/news/2008/02/20/News/Finkelstein.Gives.IsraeliAmerican.Relations.Lecture-3221274.shtml Cynthia Gomez Issue date: 2/20/08 Section: News Norman G. Finkelstein spoke at the Musical Recital...

Can anyone tell me if the death of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Kammler was ever resolved or ever investigated fully by any government after WWII. There seems to be alot of speculation about this man, is there a single piece of documentary evidence to suggest his involvment with any German nuclear...

Back in the 60's someone had figured out how many gallons of coffee the Navy consumed a day, I don't remember the number. Anyone have some idea? -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Greetings Readers, Friends, and Other Visitors: The Time Traveler appeared suddenly in my study on New Year's Eve, 2004. He was a stolid, grizzled man in a gray tunic and looked to be in his late-sixties or older. He also appeared to be the veteran of wars or of some terrible accident since he had...

Hi, Probably a silly questio, but I was wondering about how seaplanes land in a sea with waves running fairly close together ? e.g., does the pilot try to put down parallel to the wave motion (this would be along the trough of the wave) or does he attempt to go perpendicular to the trough on...

Latest C-SPAN 'Washington Journal' call which mentioned Ron Paul: Subject: VIDEO: A Clean Break and A Pretext for War, read James Bamford (Ron Paul mentioned as...

America has a very bad name around the world today , and in my opinion, is because we let incompetents represent us, take Klein in Africa representing the USA at the U.N., W.Post,Feb.17.08, and making a mess out of it, but who gets the blame? the USA, even when he represents also all the neocons...

For those interested History Channel will air a series called Battle 360 starting 28 Feb The series is a 13 part battle by battle history using computer graphics of the CV Enterprise from 1941-45. From the website it looks like the same people that did the Dogfight...

Powering JSF: One Engine Is Enough. Lexington Institute. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/docs/797.pdf

Probably the coolest video of Ace Combat 6 for Xbox 360 that I've seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY-q-P7KyBc

V-22 squadron achieves successin Iraq, USMC says Aerospace Daily 01/25/2008 , page 12 U.S. Marine Corps Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 - the service's first V-22 Osprey squadron - has been successful in its air operations of Al Anbar province since arriving in October, the service reports. The...

Saturday, February 1, 2008 Wallpaper of the month - February, 2008 Desktop Wallpaper - "EA-6B Prowler". http://www.scenery.org/screen.htm#Wallpaper An EA-6B Prowler, completes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the

Boeing's Super Hornet 'Blue Light Special' Aviation Week & Space Technology 02/04/2008 , page 24 Boeing pitches leap to a still-nebulous sixth-generation, multipurpose fighter design Boeing is trying to chip away at Lockheed Martin's lead in the future fighter stakes by pitching further variants...

Lets get this newsgroup back on topic. So for starters a question to our retired and other non-active naval aviators: Which aircraft would you have most wanted to fly that wasn't yet available during your days as a Naval Aviator? Why? --

Hi, Have always been interested in catapults on carriers, but have never been able to find any good drawings or diagrams showing how the hold-back mechanisms work. I remember in the "old days" that they used breakable/frangible bars, but I doubt that these are used anymore. Are they ?

How long has the Russian Bear been flying? Anyone know? -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Ron Paul supporter holding 'NO MORE WAR FOR ISRAEL' sign at Reagan Library! http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=84512 http://NEOCONZIONISTTHREAT.BLOGSPOT.COM http://NOMOREWARFORISRAEL.BLOGSPOT.COM

The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is a multirole fighter aircraft. It has been the aerial demonstration aircraft for the Blue Angels since 1986. The F/A-18 Hornets' main mission are fighter escort, fleet air defense, close air support and many others. Warplanes.com offers F/A-18 Hornet flown by...

FYI, Some of you may remember Jarmo as a pretty active writer in this forum some years back, as some of you Hornet drivers may well remember. At the time he was the commanding officer of the 21st Fighter Squadron and responsible for introducing F/A-18 into Finnish Air Force service. He has been...