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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:44 pm

...plus the lives lost from destroying the crash sites.
Do they do that with another drone, or a fixed wing asset?

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Postby Kaiser » Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:15 pm

...plus the lives lost from destroying the crash sites.
Do they do that with another drone, or a fixed wing asset?
F-18s with a JDAM. Not pretty when the thing hits in a crowded marketplace.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:59 pm

I was reading more about COP Keating and its history, and evidently the Army frequently brings disciplinary hearings and fines to soldiers for damaged equipment. OK, this makes sense for a missing laptop, helmet, and so on. But apparently, officers in the 10th Mountain frequently made examples of enlisted men found damaging equipment and weapons systems. One soldier was held responsible for a $200K+ surveillance system called an LRAS when it fell down a cliff while he was servicing it. Some brigade XO wanted to make General by showing how tough he was on his soldiers.

Unfortunately, this officer was killed in a Chinook crash. His underlings decided not to go through with the punishment on that soldier.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:24 am

This year marked the first Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony in Hawaii that did not include a survivor of the USS Arizona sinking :(

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:58 am

Speaking of Pearl Harbor, I learned about the Ni'ihau Incident today. Interesting stuff.
When the Empire of Japan launched its attack on Pearl Harbor the morning of December 7, 1941, Airman First Class Shigenori Nishikaichi was one of the Mitsubishi Zero fighter pilots escorting bombers on their second wave over Bellows Field, a U.S. Army air base.

Radar plot from Opana Radar Station on the morning of December 7, 1941, indicating a large number of aircraft approaching the island of Oahu, which turned out to be the first wave of Japanese bombers. (National Archives Identifier 2600930)
Japan initially scored a devastating blow, but they no longer had the element of surprise on their side. Although American defenses were caught unaware during the early stages of the attack, by the time Nishikaichi and his fellow airmen began to made their way back to their aircraft carriers, a squadron of American P-36 Hawks became airborne and challenged the Japanese Zeroes.

The Hawks were out-performed by the superior Japanese Zeroes; they were slower, less maneuverable, and their pilots lacked the combat experience of their adversaries. But not all of the Japanese aircraft escaped unscathed.

Nishikaichi’s plane took multiple hits, and a round pierced the fuselage, causing a rapid loss of fuel. Realizing that he would not make it back to his aircraft carrier some 200 miles to the north, Nishikaichi’s only option was to put his plane down on the tiny island of Ni’ihau, the westernmost in the Hawaiian chain.

Prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese Imperial Navy designated Ni’ihau as a location for crippled aircraft to land. Japanese intelligence had indicated that the island was uninhabited, and pilots were told that they could wait there and rendezvous with a rescue submarine. They were wrong.

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/201 ... -incident/

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Dec 11, 2018 1:18 pm

Whoa, that's wild. I'm sure stuff like that bolstered FDR's case for the internment camps.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Dec 11, 2018 2:36 pm

Angered, Ben grabbed the pilot and hoisted him over his head and threw him against a stone wall.
:shock:

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Postby Shyster » Tue Dec 11, 2018 4:30 pm

There's a reason the first foreigner to win a sumo tournament, the first foreigner to make the rank of ōzeki, and the first foreigner to make the rank of yokozuna were all Hawaiian.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue Dec 11, 2018 5:03 pm

On a summer morning in July 1918, the USS San Diego was steaming off the coast of Long Island, N.Y., when it was rocked by an explosion.

Within 30 minutes, the vessel listed and sank, forcing its crew of more than 1,000 to abandon ship. Six enlisted sailors died. The armored cruiser was reportedly the only major U.S. warship to be lost in World War I.

For the past century, the ship has sat at the bottom of the Atlantic, its location well-known but the cause of its sinking a mystery. Now, a team of researchers say they have determined the source of the blast: an underwater mine from a German U-boat.
Underwater forensics and computer modeling FTW!

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Dec 11, 2018 7:43 pm

Reading about the U Boat warfare along the Atlantic seaboard never ceases to fascinate me

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Postby dodint » Wed Dec 12, 2018 7:21 pm

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna947166

As I suspected, all 5 of the C-130 crew died, the two that were found alive were from the jet. As we know, only one of those aviators survived.

RIP; training accidents blow.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Fri Jan 04, 2019 11:47 am

Nijmegen, The Netherlands offers a daily tribute to the 48 members of the 82nd Airborne that died crossing the Waal River during Operation Market Garden. At sunset, the bridge's footpath's 48 lights turn on sequentially, taking about 12 minutes from one side to another. A military veteran walks along as each light turns on, as the guest of honor. Any military veteran can participate, too.

http://www.sunsetmarch.nl/en/welcome/

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri Jan 04, 2019 12:06 pm

That's pretty awesome.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Jan 04, 2019 12:25 pm

Wow, I did not know that was a thing. Very cool.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Jan 04, 2019 1:02 pm

That is an awesome tribute, thanks for sharing. What a disastrous operation.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Fri Jan 04, 2019 1:28 pm

Speaking of the Waal River crossing, I remembered we had a Clemson alum veteran who was in the crossing, and his anger at the Brits stopping for tea (when they were actually out of fuel) was actually in the film A Bridge Too Far, but attributed to Julian Cook, played by Robert Redford.

So I googled him: Moffatt Burris was his name, and he was a longtime SC state legislator. His Wikipedia says he was still alive and 99, but then I scrolled down to find out...he passed away this morning.

Yikes. :shock:

https://clemson.world/no-time-for-tea-t ... burriss-40

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri Jan 04, 2019 3:12 pm

Good job Digital.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:56 pm

I just Googled Burriss... They don't make them like that anymore. RIP

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Postby Shyster » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:53 pm

I don't think this YouTube channel has been mentioned on here. I recently ran across Drachinifel's YouTube channel. He does five-minute (more or less; often more) videos covering ship classes, individual ships, and significant naval battles. The "drydock" videos are Q&A videos based on comments. This is a really nice channel on naval technology and history. As some examples, here's a recent video on the Alaska-class heavy cruisers (or battle-cruisers, depending on one's views):



And here's a longer video on the WWII Battle of the North Cape, i.e., the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst by a British task force led by the battleship HMS Duke of York.


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Postby Shyster » Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:38 pm

Nice video on the WWII production race between the US and Japan.


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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Jan 29, 2019 12:43 pm

"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success." -- Yamamoto Isoroku, mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Five months months after Pearl was the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first engagement that halted Japanese advances in the Pacific. One month later - six months to the day after Pearl - was Midway, the first time the Japanese were actually defeated in battle. Amazingly prophetic.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:55 pm

Friday February 1, 2019 will mark the end of an era in Naval Aviation: The US Navy will officially retire the F/A-18 Hornet 'legacy' variants from front-line service, marking the end of a 35-year run in the service. The C and D types will remain in service with a few fleet squadrons as they transition to, ahem, newer aircraft, and will be operated in the Reserves and with certain other non-deploying commands (Air Warfare Center, Blue Angels, etc).

And of course, the Marines will continue to fly the legacy Hornets forever, because they're the Marines that's how they have to do things.

Alas, this does eventually mean more F-35s.

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Postby tifosi77 » Sat Feb 02, 2019 10:02 am

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48th Fighter Wing heritage livery.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Sat Feb 02, 2019 10:51 am

Yeah, I'm surprised the Marines don't fly Phantoms and Corsairs still...

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Postby dodint » Sat Feb 02, 2019 10:59 am

This is supposedly their last year with the EA-6B.

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