Sigh… LCS…

Just needs to go away as a class… Spend the money on FFX and move on. The U.S. Navy hopes to boost the number of days the littoral combat ship is operational by targeting the drivers of down time: design … Continue reading

Hmmm…

Maybe there could be a ‘field test’ against five certain individuals… No audio, but you don’t need it… 🙂 You WERE saying ‘BOOM’ in your head weren’t you… 😀 h/t JP

Sequestration just gets better and better…

Everyone who’s knowledgeable about Navy operations has known this for a while, but now even the Submarine Commanders are publically admitting to the shortfall in US submarines… There are not enough fast-attack and guided-missile submarines in the Navy’s arsenal to … Continue reading

Tanks for the memories, Part Tres…

This one goes out to Bob- The venerable M113… Still in service today! And here’s one reader Wandering Neurons took, he was braver than I was… His comment accompanying the picture? Beavis and Butthead: “Fire, fire, fire’s cool, heh, heh”. … Continue reading

Military told NOT to read/download leak data…

Here’s the web page… Now before everybody goes ballistic, this is actually correct for a COUPLE of reasons. One, NIPR is a totally unclassified system, e.g NO classified of any kind allowed.  If you’ve looked at the Guardian article, the … Continue reading

A Prediction…

And I truly hope that I am wrong with this one… But I ‘think’ that DPRK is going to shoot ‘something’ on the 10th, if it is nuke (and there is activity around the tunnel) there wont be much response … Continue reading

Well dang…

Went in to get a haircut, and found out my favorite barber has retired… Turns out she’d been at the BOQ for 30 years (I swear she didn’t look a day over 40)… But her daughter has taken over and … Continue reading

Lazy people…

“Some” folks have WAY too much time on their hands…  And people say nothing good ever comes out of military technology???Imagine what they could do if they turned their skylarking to something productive…Bomb robots, UUVs, UAVs, USVs… sigh… … Continue reading