Book Review – America’s Black Sea Fleet
In the aftermath of World War I, a U.S. Navy squadron, “America’s Black Sea Fleet,” was forward-deployed to the Turkish …
Naval Forces
Navy Forced to Reschedule Carrier Strike Group Rotation
America’s looming fiscal crisis delivered real-world consequences last week with a pair of blows to one of the U.S. Navy’s …
China’s Eagle Strike-Eight Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles: The YJ-83, C803, and the Family Tree
With the growth of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), and growing Chinese assertiveness over territorial claims as well as …
China’s Eagle Strike-Eight Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles: YJ-81, YJ-82, and C802
With the growth of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), the first carrier landings aboard the Liaoning (China’s first aircraft …
U.S. Navy Missile Defense: The Vision Realized
While the story of Aegis writ large has been touched upon earlier – and told more extensively in many fora, …
China’s Eagle Strike-Eight Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles: Designation Confusion and the Family Members from YJ-8 to YJ-8A
With the arguments over disputed islands and reefs in the South and East China Seas getting louder and louder, it …
AV-8B Harrier Touch and Go
AV-8B Harriers assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 266, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conduct touch and go landings …
A Very Short History of Postwar Military Airships
When the U.S. Navy disbanded the last of its blimp fleet in 1962, it marked the end of the first …
X-47B UCAS Deck-handling Testing Success
December’s first at-sea test of the Navy’s Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS-D) was historic, but in a way, it was …
The Creation of the Proximity Fuze
When the Pearl Harbor attack was over, amid the preparations for war, an accounting of the cost began. The losses …