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Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael “MOB” Tremel, the first US pilot to score an aerial victory in almost 20 years has remarked about what took place that day. Lt Cdr Michael Tremel of the Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-87 ‘Golden Warriors’ made the first US air-to-air kill since a USAF F-16 shot down a Serbian MiG-29 in 1999, […]
On June 18, a US Navy pilot shot down a Syrian fighter jet south of Tabqah after it dropped bombs near US-backed forces, also known as Syrian Democratic Forces, according to US Central Command. It was the first time a US pilot made an air-to-air kill since the Kosovo conflict in 1999. And now, for the first time since the incident, […]
Amid all its upgrades and advances, the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, is lacking one feature: urinals. Every bathroom on the Ford is, for the first time, gender-neutral, equipped with flush toilets and stalls, according to Navy Times. Bathroom-design experts have said sit-down toilets are less sanitary and take up more space, and […]
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that U.S. Navy ships came close to their vessels in the Gulf and shot flares. The USS Nimitz and an accompanying warship drew close to a rocket-bearing Iranian vessel on Friday and sent out a helicopter near a number of Guards vessels close to the Resalat oil and […]
The sudden appearance of two large, rusty and barnacle-encrusted World War II-era munitions on the beaches of Cape Hatteras, N.C., this summer have puzzled the area’s park rangers and local historians. “We haven’t had these in the past,” said Boone Vandzura, the chief ranger of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, a 70-mile stretch of sand and surf that spans […]
It makes perfect sense for the Navy to have a drone that CAN fly and swim right? Well, that is exactly what the Naviator does! At the Office of Naval Research’s annual Science and Technology Expo on Friday in Washington, D.C., a development team from Rutgers University demonstrated the unusual quadcopter, which can swim at depths of […]
Enjoy a ride on-board with F-18 Hornet pilots from the ‘Pukin Dogs’ of VFA-143 somewhere over the Pacific Northwest. Featured image of an F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Pukin Dogs of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 143 flying over the mountains of Afghanistan. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Ben Stickney. This article is courtesy of Fighter Sweep.
According to U.S. Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), as of July 21st, a jointly-hosted U.S. and Ukrainian multinational maritime exercise was underway in the Black Sea. The exercise, called “Sea Breeze 2017,” was ostensibly intended to “enhance interoperability” between the participating nations, while also “strengthening maritime security within the region,” according to a video posted […]
It makes perfect sense for the Navy to have a drone that CAN fly and swim right? Well, that is exactly what the Naviator does! At the Office of Naval Research’s annual Science and Technology Expo on Friday in Washington, D.C., a development team from Rutgers University demonstrated the unusual quadcopter, which can swim at […]
Logging 100,000 hours of flight time in a strike/fighter squadron without a class A mishap is a major achievement. The “Eagles” of Strike Fighter Squadron 115 set the historic milestone on July 3rd while deployed on the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan that was operating in the Coral Sea area of the South Pacific. Watch a GREAT Cruise Video […]
Logging 100,000 hours of flight time in a strike/fighter squadron without a class A mishap is a major achievement. The “Eagles” of Strike Fighter Squadron 115 set the historic milestone on July 3rd while deployed on the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan that was operating in the Coral Sea area of the South Pacific. Watch a GREAT Cruise […]
The following is an exclusive excerpt from the book “Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway” by N. Jack “Dusty” Kleiss.- Desiree Chapter 13 The Battle of Midway, Part 1 The Morning Attack, June 4, 1942 At 2:00 a.m. on June 4, a messenger tapped my arm.* […]
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