Looks like Torpille F21 Works
Designed beginning in 2008, the French F21 Artemis heavy torpedo is under production by the Naval Group (formerly DCNS) at the Bertaud Castle (Gassin) torpedo factory which dates back to 1912....
View ArticleWarship Wednesday on a Friday Dec. 27, 2024: Taking a Licking
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
View ArticleT-AGSEs Surface
An interesting addition to the Bollinger-built 87-foot Marine Protector class patrol boats for the Coast Guard in 2008 was four units– paid for wholly by the Navy– that would serve in two special...
View ArticleHr.Ms. K XI, found
Dutch Onderzeeboot Hr.Ms. K XI at Satonda, Nederlands-Indië, March 1931. She was the class leader of a trio of 218-foot 800-ton “colonial” submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy, so-called as they...
View ArticleHoly Loch North
One of the aces in the hole for the old-school Polaris Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines and their Trident descendants was Refit Site One, hidden in Holy Loch, Scotland near the Firth of Clyde....
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, March 26, 2025: First of 65
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, April 2, 2025: Jeezy Breezy, We Hit Em!
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
View ArticleIowa, Arriving
The fourth U.S. Navy vessel named for the state of Iowa, the future USS Iowa (SSN-797), was delivered to the Navy on 22 December 2024 and, as the Hawkeye State is slim on blue water ports, was...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, April 23, 2025: The Seas are Alive…with the sound of...
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, May 7, 2025: Ray of Hope
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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