Military History

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Scientists solve mystery of US Civil War submarine (Nature) Is it a travesty to spend so much time, money and energy on this symbol of the Confederacy?

Sea Dart Missile: A Parting Salute (Defense Media Network)

Senator suggests deal for return of Pueblo By John Hoellwarth - Staff writer Posted : Thursday Apr 19, 2007 5:42:11 EDT A war trophy on display at the Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Md., may be the key to securing the return of a Navy ship captured by North Korea nearly 40 years ago, Senator Wayne Allard, R-Colo., wrote in a March 18 letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The technical research ship Pueblo is the only commissioned U.S. warship currently in foreign hands. It has been on display in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang since it was captured off the North Korean coast during an intelligence-gathering mission Jan. 23, 1968. North Kore…

A very long guide, including EW systems and radars, not much data, but sometimes including radar ranges: http://www.aerospace-index.com/images/2006homeai/ewh2008.pdf

Find Army Times article here. Sherman with major role at Bastogne found Staff report Posted : Monday Dec 29, 2008 7:12:48 EST Army historians have identified a World War II-era tank on display at Rose Barracks, Vilseck, Germany as being the first tank to enter American lines 64 years ago in relief of besieged 101st Airborne Division soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge. Called the “Cobra King,” the M4 Sherman tank was used by the 4th Armored Division’s C Company, 37th Tank Battalion to break the German encirclement of U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium on Dec. 26, 1944. Army historians from U.S. Army Europe and the Patton Museum at Fort Knox, Ky., us…

I've been taking a Harpoon hiatus to work on transferring photos and slides of ships I've visited into JPEGs. I thought I'd share them as I go along, so every week I plan to post a new set. This week, USS Hornet at Almeda CA. Feel free to post comments or correction directly onto the site. This should be the link: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?unam...&feat=email Larry Gertner wombat1417

From Air Force Magazine [excerpt]

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

Found casually when researching about Swedish ships (in concrete the elusive ex-Coast Guard Kbv 172/HMS Skredvisk): http://www.sinbadnavigation.com/flet.php?id=4

From Defence Talk Britain's sinking of Argentine cruiser still stirs emotions Agence France-Presse | Mar 30, 2007 LONDON: The sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano by a British nuclear-powered submarine with the loss of 323 Argentine lives still stirs controversy, 25 years after the Falklands War. Argentine lawyers have argued that the warship was outside of the 200-mile (322 kilometre) exclusion zone established by British forces around the archipelago when it was sunk on May 2, 1982. But they have failed to win their case that British committed a "war crime" when the HMS Conqueror fired conventional torpedoes into the Belgrano, a World War II-era wars…

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From Air Force Times Son of pilot Powers promoting Cold War history By Regina Lee - The Washington Times via AP Posted : Sunday Jul 15, 2007 17:39:55 EDT WASHINGTON — The 63-foot U-2 spy plane suspended from the ceiling of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is a constant reminder to Francis Gary Powers Jr. of his educational mission. The son of a historic U-2 pilot shot down over Russia, Powers has worked for 11 years to keep the history of the era that spawned the reconnaissance plane alive. Pondering the relic, which was used to photograph Russian facilities and was one of several planes his father flew, he says its work was instrumental in en…

I think this is the more comprehensive sonobuoys site I know: http://www.prc68.com/I/Sonobuoy.shtml

A military curiosity was intriguing me for years, my first contact with the concept was in an old Tintin inter-wars comic book. Today, some minutes ago, I've received a spam mail with photos of sonic locators, it had remembered me the matter, some minutes of web search, and here post some links about the topic: http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/ear/ear.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_mirror http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_ranging http://www.doramusic.com/Radar.htm

The War Cabinet discussions of the 1982 conflict have been released: http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/cab-highlights-1982.htm

From Air Force Magazine archives Soviet Aerospace Almanac, 1987 http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/1987/March%201987/0387soviet.pdf Soviet Aerospace Almanac, 1986 http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/1986/March%201986/0386soviet.pdf

Researching about old Soviet stuff, I've finded this extraordinary web site about the 16VA in East Germany. It's narrated about the personal viewpoint of a ex-Belgium Army soldier, detached in a Hawk SAM battery. The webmaster has do a lot of personal research, but I see he has not many connections with other people with the some interest, and also the site is something chaotic (some internal links are not working or nonexistent, and the size of the pages don't adjust very well the screen), but full of very interesting data and links, researches and personal opinions, as to evaluate the feasability of the Soviets destroying the Hawk SAM sites with tactical nukes launched…

Just for jigs, I was thinking about how the Soviet Fleet would have looked around the year 2000 if the USSR had not implosioned, let's say they dismiss Gorbachev (on health grounds evidently...) and manage to ride high oil prices to last one more decade. Would the fleet list look like this: carriers 1 CVN: Ulyanovsk (would have been accepted around 1996-7) 2 CVs: Tbilisi & Riga (no name changes there) 4 CVHs: Kiev, Minsk, Novorossiysk, Baku (presumably Kiev would have been refitted around 1990) cruisers 5 BCGNs: Kirov, Frunze, Kalinin, Yuri Andropov & Kuznetsov (commissioned around 1995) 1 CGN of the Anchar project (name?) 8 CGs of the Slava …

Details of regiments and locations from 1945-1991