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Who’d have thought Turkey had the No.2 largest submarine fleet in Europe?
Winston Churchill must be spinning at about 3500 rpms at this point. HMs submarine forces are tied in third place (hull-wise) with France and Greece. Image via Navy Graphics:
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Warship Wednesday Dec.2, 2015: The Brass Tiger Fish of the Lifeguard Service
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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How about a 48 degree surface?
Text from All Hands magazine, May 1952 edition, courtesy of Stan Svec & .Official USN photo # NH 97019, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Image via Navsource Here we see the...
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Warship Wednesday Dec.23, 2015: The lost jewel from Bizerte
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Successful Disco-era U-boats
Germany has spent something like 120~ years making top-notch submarines. In fact, other than the 80 or so Romeo/Ming class diesels operated by the Chinese and the Norks, the most numerous modern...
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And so goes the Viking
151218-N-QK571-984 VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (Jan. 12, 2016) The last two U.S. Navy S-3B Viking aircraft soar over Laguna Peak at Naval Base Ventura County, California. In January, one aircraft left Air...
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One of the Kaiser’s boats no longer unaccounted for
When SMS U-31 of the Kaiserliche Marine‘s IV Flotilla sailed from Wilhelmshaven on 13 January 1915, and disappeared shortly thereafter, it was assumed, she had struck a mine and sunk with all hands,...
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Warship Wednesday: Feb. 3, 2016, HMs Unlucky Killer No. 13
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Meet Seagull, Israel’s new USV robot boat
Elbit Systems has a new 40-foot unmanned surface vehicle, the Seagull, which is designed to operate in pairs for either mine sweeping or sub busting. The idea is the first vehicle will have...
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Meet the new Echo Voyager unmanned underwater vehicle
We all live in a yellow submarine… Boeing’s massive 51-foot Echo Voyager, debuted yesterday, is an outgrowth of their 18-foot Echo Ranger and 32-foot Echo Seeker prototype testbed UUV’s– which were...
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Warship Wednesday: March 16, 2016, the Tale of the Photogenic Tyrant
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Scratch one narco sub
P-3s are still out there busting subs everyday…just in a different livery and with no Mk46s A Customs and Border Patrol Air and Marine Office P-3 Orion Long Range Tracker found a self-propelled...
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Meet ACTUV
DARPA just released some neat but brief 360-view footage of their Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) including some of it underway at a good clip (27 knots). The...
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Get your Das Uboote on
Throwback Thursday: The German Bundeswehr posted this groovy six-minute film about the Type 206A coastal diesel boats filmed in 1984. Entitled Stahlfisch (Steelfish) its chock full of really neat...
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Speaking of drones in the Pacific
I’ve talked a lot about the Navy’s Sea Hunter program and others, but how about this news ICYMI from the Pitcairn Islands– you know, that windswept group of four volcanic atolls in the Pacific...
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Memoratus in aeternum, Thresher
Starboard bow view, July 24, 1961. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph) USS Thresher (SSN-593), commissioned in August 1961, was the lead ship of a new class of nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarines and...
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OZ to pick up 12 redesigned SSNs (-N) and upto 450 AMRAAMs
In the ever-continuing West Pac arms race, Australian officials announced this week that France’s DCNS has won the $38.5 billion Project SEA 1000 Future Submarine program to replace six Collins-class...
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Lost Soviet hero sub found
And no, this is no sandwich. The Russkis Schuka (Pike) class diesel subs of the 1930s were designed to be one massive class of boats, envisioned by the Revvoensoviet design bureau, to work effectively...
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Colombia’s finest (unterseeboots)
HI Sutton, who has been kinda enough to mirror some of our posts from LSOZI before at his excellent Covert Shores blog (and I do recommend going over there and checking it out regularly) penned a piece...
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Warship Wednesday May 25, 2016: The Kaiser’s Pirate of Nauset Beach
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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