Photo credit: @betafujihara via Twitter.
New images show the heavily modified bow of Japan’s Izumo class JS Kaga (DDH-184) ‘helicopter-carrying destroyer’ as the vessel left its dock recently. Kaga is currently being turned into an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter carrier for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).
Photos of the vessel pulling away from its dock in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture accompanied by various tugboats began circulating online around April 19.
The transfer of the hull sections to the shipyard of the Itaguaí Naval Complex marks the beginning of the construction phase of the fourth PROSUB submarine, Angostura.
According to the scheduled schedule for the Navy Submarine Program (PROSUB), Itaguaí Construções Navais (ICN) is carrying out, from April 19 to May 2, the transfer of sections of the “Angostura” (S-43) submarine.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jonny Kim.
U.S. Navy SEAL. Harvard Medical School-trained physician. Astronaut. These are all things on Lt. Cmdr. Jonny Kim’s already extensive list of accomplishments. Now Kim can add naval aviator to that list.
The Air Force is beginning its second year of conducting an overview of its cyber posture to inform investments for the next budget cycle, according to a top cyber official.
In response to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s urging for making cyber a priority – one of the his seven operational priorities, which list top modernization efforts for the service – officials created Task Force Sentinel Stand, which took a hard look at how military networks would stand up to China in a fight.
Congress should eliminate DEI mandates, while codifying principles of meritocracy and non-discrimination in military personnel policies.
Image by U.S. Secretary of Defense
On Feb. 16, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14091, titled “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”
Biden’s sweeping order multiplies and muscles up government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) diversity-crats — the diversity-industrial complex — and makes their power bases virtually permanent.
On December 15, 2022, an F-35B Lightning’s vertical landing on a runway in Fort Worth, Texas took a disastrous turn when an aggressive bounce pitched the fighter jet forward onto its nose. The 5th-generation fighter became a protractor, its front landing gear shredding as it carved a circle around the nose point grinding into the […]
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On Wednesday, the French nuclear submarine Le Terrible carried out a successful test launch of the M51 strategic ballistic missile in Audierne Bay, Finistere.
Submarine Le Terrible and the M-51 missile
The Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, congratulated all those involved in the successful launch. France’s nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SNLEs), including Le Terrible, are equipped with the M51 missile.
The DGA and the test ship Monge monitored the missile during its trajectory. The target area was located in the North Atlantic, far from any coast.
Sergei Bobylev/Russian MoD/TASS
Last November, Russian forces operating a Pantsir-S1 air defense system fired on a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone flying over eastern Syria, but did not succeed in shooting it down, U.S. Central Command has confirmed. That the incident had occurred at all only emerged recently in one of a number of leaked U.S. military documents. This comes as senior U.S. commanders have been publicly discussing what they say is an uptick in worryingly aggressive Russian behavior in Syria and elsewhere in the world in recent months.
U.S. Naval Construction Battalions, better known as Seabees, are famous for their building projects in some of the most austere conditions. Their mottos “We build, We fight” and “Can Do” are perhaps best exemplified in the construction of the first and only nuclear power plant on Antarctica.
Seabees and members of the Civil Engineer Corps in Antarctica, c. 1956 (U.S. Navy Seabee Museum)
Operation Deep Freeze, a series of U.S. missions to Antarctica, started in 1955.
This week was a good week for demotivating-motivating memes from all over the internet. We have many to get through, feel free to throw one or two into your death-by-PowerPoint presentations about O&D. Here are the 25 best memes to look at on your phone while the boots rearrange the Quadcons.
Half the time I did not know if it was tinnitus or just the side effects of the Green Weenie.
Laugh it up because your leave got denied.
Well, that escalated quickly.
Hey Chief, the Captain said SEAL Team 6 has suddenly stopped moving and is floating upwards.
