Military History

From the USS King website: http://www.uss-king.com/piraz.shtml

Looking for operative deployment of the SSBN converted in SSN in compliance with the SALT I treaty, I've finded this in the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thomas_A._Edison_(SSBN-610)

NATO Bombed Soviet Submarines With Tiny, Annoying Magnets (War is Boring blog)

Check out this BBC article here.

A simply and useful directory of military helicopters: http://www.groundsystems-index.com/images/...megsi/MHH08.pdf

Virtual museum on Swedish and imported missile ("Robot" in Swedish) types (perhaps I posted it a long time ago): http://www.robotmuseum.se/ARM_robotmateriel.htm

From Code One [excerpt]

This article appeared in the August 1981 issue of Air Force Magazine, little more than a month after the Israeli strike on Osirak in June of that year. http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1981/August%201981/0881osirak.aspx I thought it might be an interesting read for you, and to consider in light of current conjecture about the possibility of a repeat event in the region.

Another view in the ill-fated 1944 Exercise Tiger: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/475351/The-tragedy-of-Slapton-Sands-The-real-story-of-that-terrible-night

The loss of the Sullivan brothers (from DefenseNews' Intercepts blog)

Very interesting Russian Wikipedia entry on "Uspekh" targeting complex (1966 on), found casually when looking for Tu-95RTs Bear-D units and bases (You can use Google Translate). With details of operational procedures (Tu-95RTs operating in pairs, perhaps for triangulation) and great peacetime loses. Also down on the page links to other targeting and EW systems: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/МРСЦ-1_«Успех»

By F.H. McCullough, III INTRODUCTION Fifty years ago, in the Gulf of Tonkin, during the evening of May 8, 1972, offshore North Vietnam, a U.S. Navy SH-3 Sea King helicopter was making its approach to the U.S. Navy’s guided-missile light cruiser USS Providence (CLG-6), flagship of RADM Rembrandt C. Robinson, USN, the Commander (i.e., CTG) of various naval surface ships afloat constituting task groups TG70.8 and TG77.7. The helo was returning from a conference aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43) where senior officers met with the Commander of the US 7th Fleet and others at the onset of a major escalation of the Vietnam War. USS Providence (CLG-6…

A light narrative of SAC operations 1957-1991 in a downloadable PDF, with very useful weapons deployment tables at the end (I think it was mentioned by someone in the Command CMANO fórum, but I was in a military history congress the last week and don't remember it very well): https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B205vpZC1pGmbU9nQjBwZUY2SFE/edit

to our NHF board member, then-Secretary of the Navy, John F. Lehman. View the full webinar top-gun-annual-leighton-lecture/”>HERE. The post Blog first appeared on Naval Historical Foundation. View the full article

Reviewed by Ed Calouro Battleship buffs and authorities on capital ships are familiar with the dictum that once HMS Dreadnought was commissioned in 1906, all existing battleships thereby became obsolete. Indeed, all-big-gun battleships from 1906 forward were considered dreadnoughts or, subsequently, super-dreadnoughts. Capital ships built before 1906 with a mixed or intermediate main armament, were thereafter termed pre-dreadnoughts. Chris McNab, author of Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts, takes a more nuanced approach in his book about these epoch-setting ships. A July 18, 1910 article in The Times concluded the construction of HMS Dreadnought resulted in more o…

We would be remiss in our duty if we did not take note that today is the 62nd anniversary of D-Day (and incidentally, Pete's birthday .. happy birthday, Pete !). Here are a couple of related links: Normandy DDAY Anniversary The National D-Day Memorial

From Air Force Magazine [excerpt]

The 24 year anniversary is fast approaching ... The Komsomolets Disaster (Studies in Intelligence, 1995 issue, CIA Library)

Two students and seven teachers from around the country were awarded prizes by the Naval Historical Foundation (NHF) for outstanding projects with naval/maritime themes in the annual National History Day (NHD) competition that concluded June 19. Winners of the coveted NHF Coskey Prizes for Naval History were Jessie Henderson of Bradley Central High School in Cleveland, TN, and Rebecca Bemiss of John F. Kennedy Middle School in Plantsville, CT. Ms. Henderson’s project was a Senior Individual Documentary entitled, “Aerographer’s Mates: Communicating Weather from Sea to Shining Sea.” Ms. Bemiss’s entry was a Junior Individual Performance, “Mavis Batty and the Geese That…

A pair of special reports by Mer et Marine about the origin and development of the French SSBN and SSN (in French): http://www.meretmarine.com/article.cfm?id=104185 http://www.meretmarine.com/article.cfm?id=104193