Military History

The fascinating history of AC-130 Spectre and his operations: http://www.spectre-association.org/historySpectre.htm Plane-by-plane history: http://www.spectre-association.org/First_Lady_129.htm http://www.spectre-association.org/listingsA.htm http://www.spectre-association.org/listingsEH.htm http://www.spectre-association.org/listingsU.htm

Carrier Saratogas sad final journey begins (DefenseNews, Intercepts blog)

Australian war movie available to watch online. Battle of Long Tan

Aside the problems with the disastrous SH-2 Seasprite adquisition programme (none helicopter adquired, but a lot of money spended), previously the Royal Australian Navy Adelaide-class (FFG-7) frigates between 1980-1991 were devoid of any ASW/combat helicopter capabilities, as I did discover a few days ago researching about WestPac scenarios settled circa 1988. The Australian FFG-7 frigates were not equipped with any helicopters between 1980-1984, with three Bell 206B-1 Kiowa liaison/general purpose helicopters from 1984, and with six AS 350B Squirrel (Fennec) liaison/general purpose helicopters between 1985-1991. Only from 1991 the SH-60B were operational and employed f…

Book Review The Red Baron: The Graphic History of Richthofens Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI (Defense Media Network)

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

By Rick Campbell, St. Martins Press, New York, NY (2014) Reviewed by Capt. Roger F. Jones, USN (Ret.) Retired Navy submarine officer and author Rick Campbell offers an exciting story of how a US Navy Trident nuclear sub, the USS Kentucky, is given falsified orders to launch all twenty-four of its nuclear missiles at Iran. However, these orders are fraudulent. They were not issued by the President of the United States, but by a cabal of rogue agents in Israel and America instead. The work of these agents extends to the Kentucky, whose communication equipment was altered to prevent a recall order, in the almost certain event that the deception will be uncovered before the…

The M16 is Golden (Defense Media Network)

Shamelessly borrowed from the Admiralty Trilogy mailing list Staring at the Sea: the Soviet RORSAT and EOSAT programs (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, November/December 1999, pdf)

Command of the Sea: The Naval Side of the Korean War (Defense Media Network)

A lot of details about U-2, A-12, YF-12, Groom Lake and other very black programs: http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/index.html

A web site about the French Presidential planes (Air Force One-like), including profiles and historical considerations: http://cotam0001.com/histoire-des-avions-presidentiels-francais.html

Gerhard Neumann F-104 Starfighter Museum: http://www.f-104.de/ And this related site of some model planes showed in the Museum: http://acroairwolf.beepworld.de/plastikmodellejets.htm

A very interesting site full of rigorous data discovered (or re-discovered??) yesterday, with data and some WWII updated Standard Aircraft Characteristics charts: as example B-17G: http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/B-17/B-17G_Standard_Aircraft_Characteristics.pdf of the site: http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org

A very detailed site full of specifications about the supersonic airliner Tu-144 Charger: http://www.tu144sst.com/techspecs/performance.html

Air Power Lessons from the Korean War (Defense Media Network)

An article in the Russian Wikipedia with not equivalence on other languages: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81)#.D0.A0.D0.B0.D0.BA.D0.B5.D1.82.D0.B0_9.D0.9C96 In short: SA-N-6a Grumble (1984),S-300F Fort (export Rif), missile 5V55RM,land equivalent S-300P 5V55R, speed 2597, range 40,5/2,7. SA-N-6b Grumble (1990), S-300FM Fort-M (export Rif-M), missile 48N6,land equivalent S-300PMU-1 48N6, speed 3888, range 81/2,7 (but effective maximum range limited to 93 Km/50,2 nm because guidance issues). …

Very detailed site, worth of a visit about this rare type, also details in some SAR operations in Vietnam: http://www.h43-huskie.info/framesetrotortips.htm

The Sikorsky Company keeps his legacy a little better than other ancient companies: http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/D%20The%20Rotary%20Wing%20Legacy.php

A site centered on Canadian electronics, sensors and intelligence, but with many aircrafts details: http://jproc.ca/rrp/rrp3/tracker_ssq2.html http://jproc.ca/rrp/rrp3/tracker.html http://jproc.ca/rrp/index.html