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56 years ago today, a revamped WWII task force, ready for Soviet U-boats
Photo # USN 1057640 Although the Second World War was over for more than 15 years when this image was taken, the ships shown were still ready to fight it– or a Soviet Red Banner replacement for the...
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Air blast injuries likely killed the crew of the Hunley
The mystery of the Hunley‘s last crew has been solved. A paper by University of Florida researchers supported by the US Army MURI program and others has come to the conclusion, after repeatedly...
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Underway
When it comes down to it, there will always be a need for the Mk I mod. 0 eyeball, binos, charts and a binnacle, even on a Trafalgar-class nuclear attack submarine. Photo via Royal Navy.
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Showing off the Proteus mini-sub packing heat
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced a couple weeks ago that Proteus, their 26-foot-long dual-mode undersea vehicle (UUV), successfully completed autonomous contested battlespace missions during the...
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Wave glider runs tiny towed array in search for subs, mines
Meet KraitArray, a miniaturized towed array for use on drones and opvs from the UK. It is aimed at smaller platforms such as patrol craft and OPVs that are unable to accommodate a full-sized towed...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017: I’d like to be back on my horse
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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NATO’s submarine rescue service
A pretty interesting video on the NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) is a cooperative project between three NATO countries: France, Norway and the United Kingdom. “It is designed to rescue personnel...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017: Putting the ‘Marine’ back in submarine
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 (in this case, doctrine) each week....
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Onyx on the rocks, err ‘impact hydrography’
While the RN committed a number of sexy modern nuclear-powered attack submarines to the Falkland Islands conflict in 1982– and they proved effective in making the Argentine Navy return to port after...
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San Juan, the search continues
With ARA San Juan (S-42) now more than 10 days overdue, with no verified communications or items found from the vessel in that period, it is looking bleak for the prospect that the German-made Type...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017: The bruised-up U-boat bruiser of the Outer...
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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Vale, San Juan
Valientes submarinistas Argentinos, “que lleváis a la Virgen del Carmen dentro de vuestro corazón, que en el silencio profundo os ilumina más que el sol” With ARA San Juan (S-42) now going on two weeks...
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The trace buster, buster, Captain Nemo edition
Ahh, the unlikely scourge of the armored leviathans of the early 20th Century– the plucky torpedo boat as seen by German naval artist Willy Stower, titled “Torpedo boats on maneuver” Once the spar and...
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VJ Day ship decommissioned for good after 75 years of hard service
TCG Akin (A-585), 2013, image via ShipSpotting http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1825096 The news comes that the Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship TCG Akin (A-585) was retired...
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350 in, 350 to go
In 1962, with the “Skybolt crisis,” which arrived when the promised GAM-87 Skybolt cruise missile tanked, leaving British Vulcan bombers hamstrung, the Royal Navy announced they would add a ballistic...
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USS S-28 and HMAS AE1, checking in from eternal patrol
USS S-28 (SS-133) Photographed during the 1920s or 1930s. U.S. Submarine, S-28. NH 42689 An S-1 class submarine missing since 1944 has been located. Commissioned 13 December 1923, S-28 spent much of...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018: One of the luckier sugars
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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Warshot! 27 years ago today
As seen through the submarine’s periscope, a BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) targeted on an Iraqi position leaves the water after being fired from a vertical launch tube aboard the Los...
View ArticleIt looks like ONR is picking up Sea Hunter
I give you, DARPA’s robot subchaser, Sea Hunter, testbed of the ACTUV program, which is now part of ONR. From DARPA: DARPA has successfully completed its Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail...
View ArticleGo for a ride on the 15th Virginia-class attack submarine (VIDEOS)
The Navy posted a bunch of B-roll footage of Pre-Commissioning Unit Colorado (SSN 788) at sea. Colorado is the 15th Virginia-class attack submarine and is scheduled to be commissioned March 17, 2018....
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