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Warship Wednesday Nov. 16: Estonia’s national hero, AKA the Soviet’s immortal...
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From the oldest Pearl Harbor survivor– a minesweeper man
Navy Seaman Raymond Chavez is now 104 years old but he remembers one of the first sightings of a Japanese midget submarine hours before the attack and racing back to his ship once the fight was on....
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday!): The dazzling President of the Royal Navy
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Pakistan pops off their first submarine launched nuclear-capable missile
PNS/M Hamza (S139) – built in Pakistan, commissioned 14 August 2006. She is a a modernized and long–range air-independent powered Agosta–90B class submarine designed and developed through a joint...
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CIA SKIFF Semi-Submersible
This mysterious little midget was photographed in the CIA Museum in McLean, Virginia in 2011. From the official description: CIA designed and manufactured this two-man semi-submersible in the 1950s. It...
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‘Low-mileage’ U-boat free to good home in Washington
Apparently, there were several (at least three) very nice scale models made of U.S. S-class submarines and German Type VII U-boats produced for the forgettable Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey...
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30 Years ago today: Tea party at the pole
Here we see the famous photo of the first U.S./British coordinated surfacing at the North Pole, 18 May 1987, with three nuclear-powered hunter killer fleet submarines chilling in the Arctic. Photo via...
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Meet AC-40, the cutest little Russki sub
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation last week posted images of the Pacific fleet submarine rescue unit at work. As noted by my friend HI Sutton over at Covert Shores, “They show a Project...
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Warship Wednesday, May 24, 2017: The leopard of rum row turned magic-eyed...
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Remember, it’s not about great deals on home appliances today..
“The Constant Reminder,” Painting, Acrylic on Illustration Board; by Robert Adam Malin; 1998; Framed Dimensions 22H X 32W, NHC Accession #: 98-110-E The subject depicts a modern attack submarine...
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Warship Wednesday, May 31, 2017: The Swordfish of the Baltic
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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Warship Wednesday, June 7, 2017: The first stripe and the savior of the Queen
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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Sure you have a drone, but does your drone have a drone?
Complete with lots of dramatic royalty free muzak, the above video from Lockheed-Martin is actually pretty interesting if you take the time to digest it. It shows “Vector Hawk,” a small, unmanned...
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Go for a ride on a Boomer
The Navy just released this really great 11-minute doc about life aboard the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming (SSBN 742) as she takes part in a regularly-scheduled patrol in the...
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Scratching that Unterseeboot itch from the air
While 765 German U-boats were lost by all causes in WWII, one of the leading was due to Allied air attacks, especially after late 1942. Here are a few of the losses that made the photo gallery....
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Hunter Killers!
Below is a great 1967 film featuring Grumman S-2E Trackers of Sea Control Squadron Twenty Four (VS-24) Scouts and VS-27 Pelicans and Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King helos of HS-3 Tridents from Carrier...
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The roaring 20s on Sugar boats at Olongapo
“Submarines at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines” U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 51830 Description: Crewmen posing with a 4/50 deck gun on board a S-Type submarine,...
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That time the U.S. Navy sent a wolfpack to hunt a wolfpack
Here we see the painting “SubRon50: The Jerry Hunters” by Dwight Clark Shepler. Painted in 1943, it shows three of seven “boats” of the U.S. Submarine Squadron 50 alongside the elderly USS Beaver...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug 2, 2017: Uncle’s only submersible aircraft carrier
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Those pesky German froggers. You never know where they are gonna pop up
The Kampfschwimmer units are the rough equivalent of the U.S. Navy SEALS and, as noted in a video from the German military, they really dig that Heckler & Koch. The above spot is in German, but...
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