movetheboat
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MILITARY HERITAGE MUSEUM IN MA.
two of my bros there last week...
two of my bros there last week...
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dsedy
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Wow. Very cool story. !
Throw 'em in Gitmo, lock the door and throw away the key!! I stopped buying anything that said TOSHIBA when it was revealed that they illegally sold sub propeller milling machines to the Soviets!!!
pressherald.com/2021/10/10/navy-nuclear-engineer-wife-charged-with-trying-to-pass-secrets/
By ERIC TUCKER October 10, 2021
WASHINGTON — A Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, the Justice Department said Sunday.
In a criminal complaint detailing espionage-related charges against Jonathan Toebbe, the government said he sold information for nearly the past year to a contact he believed represented a foreign power. That country was not named in the court documents.
Toebbe, 42, was arrested in West Virginia on Saturday along with his 45-year-old wife, Diana, after he had placed a removable memory card at a prearranged “dead drop” in Jefferson County, according to the department.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether either Toebbe had a lawyer.
Prosecutors say the scheme began in April 2020 when Toebbe sent a package to a foreign government containing a sample of U.S. secrets he could provide, along with instructions for how to continue the furtive relationship. He then began communicating with someone who was actually an undercover agent and agreed to sell information for thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, according to the complaint, which alleges violations of the Atomic Energy Act.
The Toebbes are expected to have their initial court appearances Tuesday in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
© 2021
Navy nuclear engineer, wife, charged with trying to pass secrets
By ERIC TUCKER October 10, 2021
WASHINGTON — A Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, the Justice Department said Sunday.
In a criminal complaint detailing espionage-related charges against Jonathan Toebbe, the government said he sold information for nearly the past year to a contact he believed represented a foreign power. That country was not named in the court documents.
Toebbe, 42, was arrested in West Virginia on Saturday along with his 45-year-old wife, Diana, after he had placed a removable memory card at a prearranged “dead drop” in Jefferson County, according to the department.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether either Toebbe had a lawyer.
Prosecutors say the scheme began in April 2020 when Toebbe sent a package to a foreign government containing a sample of U.S. secrets he could provide, along with instructions for how to continue the furtive relationship. He then began communicating with someone who was actually an undercover agent and agreed to sell information for thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, according to the complaint, which alleges violations of the Atomic Energy Act.
The Toebbes are expected to have their initial court appearances Tuesday in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
© 2021
Kind of sad, but this, but these ships are overly expensive boats ($4.24 billion) over the tried and try Arleigh Burkes ($0.81 billion). Also has that magnetic rail gun that fired $800,000 rounds that were just about never fired because of the cost...
pressherald.com/2022/01/12/third-and-final-advanced-zumwalt-class-destroyer-leaves-bath-iron-works/
By Kathleen O'Brien January 12, 2022
The future USS Lyndon B. Johnson sailed away from Bath Iron Works for the final time on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Bath Iron Works
The future USS Lyndon B. Johnson, the third and final Zumwalt-class destroyer, left the Bath Iron Works at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, marking the end of Zumwalt construction program.
The ship is on its way to the Huntington Ingalls Industries in Mississippi to have its combat systems installed, according to Marjorie Hall, public affairs specialist of supervisor of shipbuilding at BIW.
“The sail away of the third and final Zumwalt-class destroyer marks an important milestone,” BIW President Dirk Lesko wrote in a statement Wednesday. “The completion of our work on the most sophisticated surface combatant ever built is the culmination of more than two decades of dedicated effort by thousands of employees. Our Bath-built-best-built tradition will now fully focus on (Arleigh Burke-class destroyers) to support the mission of the Navy.”
BIW, owned by General Dynamics, laid the vessel’s keel in January 2017. The ship was christened at the Bath shipyard in April 2019.
The Navy took ownership of the Johnson last November after the ship underwent at-sea trials to test the ship’s systems last summer, according to BIW.
BIW previously built two Zumwalts for the Navy, in addition to 37 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the type of warship for which BIW is best known.
BIW is the only shipyard to have ever built the Zumwalt class of warship, recognized by its sloped tumblehome hull design and sharp lines designed to deter radar detection.
The Zumwalt-class destroyer is 610 feet long and about 81 feet wide, with a displacement of about 15,761 tons, slightly larger than the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The destroyer can reach speeds over 30 knots, and hold a crew of 158, according to BIW’s website.
Shipbuilders watch as a tugboat leads the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson down the Kennebec River.
In the early 2000s, the Navy proposed building 32 Zumwalt destroyers, giving BIW’s workforce hope for years of work to come. However, the number of ships ordered was slashed repeatedly due to cost overruns. A Zumwalt’s inability to attack landlocked targets in a troop-support role made it less attractive to the Navy.
Ultimately, the Navy ordered just three Zumwalt-class destroyers. The Navy has spent about $23 billion on research, development and acquisition of the three vessels.
Considered the most technologically advanced destroyer in the Navy’s arsenal, Zumwalts are designed to be able to move close to shore to attack land targets and support military personnel on the ground.
By 2008, the Navy backpedaled and told Congress it didn’t need dozens of Zumwalts and settled on asking for two from BIW, but eventually asked for a third.
Construction on the first vessel, the USS Zumwalt, began at BIW in February 2009. The Navy accepted final delivery of the USS Zumwalt on April 24, 2020.
In late 2017, the Navy announced that it would be shifting the Zumwalts’ purpose from operating close to shores and supporting troops on the ground to attacking other surface ships.
During a visit to BIW last year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said the Zumwalts will also be the first ships in the Navy to be outfitted with new hypersonic missiles, which can maneuver en route to their destination and can fly at speeds of Mach 5, or about 3,800 mph.
“Our biggest (research and development) effort is in hypersonics, to deliver that capability in 2025, first on surface ships and then – and then on Block V submarines,” Gilday said during the visit. “Fielding hypersonics in the Zumwalt-class destroyers will be an important move forward, to turn that into a strike platform.”
With the Zumwalts finished and gone from BIW’s docks, the company has seven ships under construction, all of which are Arleigh Burkes, according to the shipyard.
The vessel is named for former President Johnson, who was John F. Kennedy’s vice president, and who assumed the presidency upon Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. Johnson left the White House in 1969.
Johnson also served as a U.S. Navy Reserve officer before being called to active duty after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was as a lieutenant commander in the South Pacific during World War II and was awarded an Army Silver Star by General Douglas MacArthur “for gallantry in action in the vicinity of Port Moresby and Salamaua, New Guinea, on June 9, 1942,” according to the Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Library.
After returning from active duty, Johnson reported to Navy leaders and Congress what he believed were unacceptable living conditions for the military and fought for better standards for all military members, according to the Defense Department.
Last high-tech Zumwalt-class destroyer leaves Bath Iron Works
By Kathleen O'Brien January 12, 2022
The future USS Lyndon B. Johnson sailed away from Bath Iron Works for the final time on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Bath Iron Works
The future USS Lyndon B. Johnson, the third and final Zumwalt-class destroyer, left the Bath Iron Works at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, marking the end of Zumwalt construction program.
The ship is on its way to the Huntington Ingalls Industries in Mississippi to have its combat systems installed, according to Marjorie Hall, public affairs specialist of supervisor of shipbuilding at BIW.
“The sail away of the third and final Zumwalt-class destroyer marks an important milestone,” BIW President Dirk Lesko wrote in a statement Wednesday. “The completion of our work on the most sophisticated surface combatant ever built is the culmination of more than two decades of dedicated effort by thousands of employees. Our Bath-built-best-built tradition will now fully focus on (Arleigh Burke-class destroyers) to support the mission of the Navy.”
BIW, owned by General Dynamics, laid the vessel’s keel in January 2017. The ship was christened at the Bath shipyard in April 2019.
The Navy took ownership of the Johnson last November after the ship underwent at-sea trials to test the ship’s systems last summer, according to BIW.
BIW previously built two Zumwalts for the Navy, in addition to 37 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the type of warship for which BIW is best known.
BIW is the only shipyard to have ever built the Zumwalt class of warship, recognized by its sloped tumblehome hull design and sharp lines designed to deter radar detection.
The Zumwalt-class destroyer is 610 feet long and about 81 feet wide, with a displacement of about 15,761 tons, slightly larger than the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The destroyer can reach speeds over 30 knots, and hold a crew of 158, according to BIW’s website.
Shipbuilders watch as a tugboat leads the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson down the Kennebec River.
In the early 2000s, the Navy proposed building 32 Zumwalt destroyers, giving BIW’s workforce hope for years of work to come. However, the number of ships ordered was slashed repeatedly due to cost overruns. A Zumwalt’s inability to attack landlocked targets in a troop-support role made it less attractive to the Navy.
Ultimately, the Navy ordered just three Zumwalt-class destroyers. The Navy has spent about $23 billion on research, development and acquisition of the three vessels.
Considered the most technologically advanced destroyer in the Navy’s arsenal, Zumwalts are designed to be able to move close to shore to attack land targets and support military personnel on the ground.
By 2008, the Navy backpedaled and told Congress it didn’t need dozens of Zumwalts and settled on asking for two from BIW, but eventually asked for a third.
Construction on the first vessel, the USS Zumwalt, began at BIW in February 2009. The Navy accepted final delivery of the USS Zumwalt on April 24, 2020.
In late 2017, the Navy announced that it would be shifting the Zumwalts’ purpose from operating close to shores and supporting troops on the ground to attacking other surface ships.
During a visit to BIW last year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said the Zumwalts will also be the first ships in the Navy to be outfitted with new hypersonic missiles, which can maneuver en route to their destination and can fly at speeds of Mach 5, or about 3,800 mph.
“Our biggest (research and development) effort is in hypersonics, to deliver that capability in 2025, first on surface ships and then – and then on Block V submarines,” Gilday said during the visit. “Fielding hypersonics in the Zumwalt-class destroyers will be an important move forward, to turn that into a strike platform.”
With the Zumwalts finished and gone from BIW’s docks, the company has seven ships under construction, all of which are Arleigh Burkes, according to the shipyard.
The vessel is named for former President Johnson, who was John F. Kennedy’s vice president, and who assumed the presidency upon Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. Johnson left the White House in 1969.
Johnson also served as a U.S. Navy Reserve officer before being called to active duty after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was as a lieutenant commander in the South Pacific during World War II and was awarded an Army Silver Star by General Douglas MacArthur “for gallantry in action in the vicinity of Port Moresby and Salamaua, New Guinea, on June 9, 1942,” according to the Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Library.
After returning from active duty, Johnson reported to Navy leaders and Congress what he believed were unacceptable living conditions for the military and fought for better standards for all military members, according to the Defense Department.
wader
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7.9M views · 60K reactions | The Intense Dogfight Between a U.S. Pilot and an Iraqi MiG | 💥 USAF pilot vs. MiG 💥 Watch this clip from Air Warriors: MiG to see who prevails. Then tune in tonight at 8PM to catch the full episode.... | By Smithsonian
💥 USAF pilot vs. MiG 💥 Watch this clip from Air Warriors: MiG to see who prevails. Then tune in tonight at 8PM to catch the full episode....
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wader
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how about some vintage hardware?
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4.6M views · 47K reactions | Footage of a Tense Battle During the Falklands War | British Harrier vs. Argentine Skyhawk Who will come out on top? To find out, watch this Falklands War footage from Air Warriors: Harrier. Then follow... | By Smithsoni
British Harrier vs. Argentine Skyhawk Who will come out on top? To find out, watch this Falklands War footage from Air Warriors: Harrier. Then follow...
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I’m watching now about the U2????how about some vintage hardware?
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wader
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that's a kickass machine
wader
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well that had to freak out the pilot of that civilian plane.......
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watching the F16 do laps when all of the sudden he does this!
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Avenger
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well that had to freak out the pilot of that civilian plane.......
17M views · 200K reactions | F16 formation with Prop plane | watching the F16 do laps when all of the sudden he does this! | By A1 UTV | Facebook
watching the F16 do laps when all of the sudden he does this!
That "civilian plane" looked and sounded like a P-51 Mustang. So probably a heritage flight for an airshow.
Definitely a P-51!! Good old square wing tips and that Merlin engine!!
Great example how things get blown out of proportion when someone with no clue runs out to post or comment on something on the internet...
Avenger
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Not only that, look how fast they were going. They had to be doing well over 200. That's no Cessna 172.
Nailed that my friend, F-16 stall speed from 184 - 207 MPH.
I actually got to watch a F-16 on approach for a deadstick, emergency landing in Chicago. We were driving to Chicago on a Saturday AM on the "Edens Spur", a road that connects 2 highways and is close to the now long-defunct Glenview Naval Air Station. I looked up and saw a F-16 dropping like a rock on its way to Glenview and said to the Admiral, "That doesn't look right!!" That night on the evening news we saw this story...
DISABLED PLANE IS TALKED DOWN
By Jean DavidsonChicago Tribune
August 17, 1986
A cool-headed air traffic controller guided a disabled Air Force jet through Saturday morning`s haze to a safe landing at Glenview Naval Air Station, averting a possible crash as the jet glided without power over North Shore homes.
''I`ve got one chance, make it good,'' the pilot told control superviser Jeff McCoy as he glided toward the military base runway at 450 miles an hour without engine power or electronic instruments, according to Mort Edelstein, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Edelstein credited McCoy, a 16-year-veteran at O`Hare International Airport, with saving the F-16C test pilot, Capt. Vincent Amato of LaFayette, Ind., and preventing a crash that could have killed or injured others on the ground.
''The controller talked him in with instructions so precise that they were practically hand signals,'' Edelstein said. ''If anything went wrong, that jet would have gone down in a populated area and we could have had a real disaster.''
Amato, 28, said McCoy`s direction ''meant the difference between life and death. He brought an aircraft without an engine to a runway on an overcast day and eliminated the possibility of ejecting.''
Amato thanked McCoy in a telephone conversation and said he planned to follow up with a case of cold beer.
''I`m ready for a beer myself,'' said Amato, a fighter pilot since 1982, now assigned to the General Dynamics aircraft manufacturing and testing facility at Ft. Worth.
The drama began at about 10:20 a.m., when Amato, on a seven-hour run from Ft. Worth to an air refueling rendevous over Lake Michigan, lost oil pressure 38 miles south of Glenview, according to Glenview spokesman Lt. Mike Filippell.
After Amato declared an emergency, McCoy took over from controller Phil Mullis and directed the jet toward the north suburban military base. Amato`s F-16C ''Flying Falcon'' was 15,000 feet over Lake Michigan, 10 to 12 miles east of Glenview, when the jet`s single engine erupted in flames and failed, cutting power to all electronic instruments and forcing Amato to steer the jet manually.
With just 30 seconds between engine failure and touch down, McCoy guided Amato over the densely populated North Shore to the Glenview air base. When the disabled craft finally cleared Saturday`s dense, low-level clouds, Amato was just 1,000 feet from the runway.
A second F-16C pilot, who flew behind Amato`s jet in chase position, monitored the crippled plane`s landing gear and approach.
The entire episode lasted about four minutes, McCoy estimated.
''I didn`t have time to do anything but give instructions,'' McCoy said Saturday. ''There was no time for panic or reassurances.''
A cool-headed air traffic controller guided a disabled Air Force jet through Saturday morning`s haze to a safe landing at Glenview Naval Air Station, averting a possible crash as the jet glided without power over North Shore homes.
''I`ve got one chance, make it good,'' the pilot told control superviser Jeff McCoy as he glided toward the military base runway at 450 miles an hour without engine power or electronic instruments, according to Mort Edelstein, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Edelstein credited McCoy, a 16-year-veteran at O`Hare International Airport, with saving the F-16C test pilot, Capt. Vincent Amato of LaFayette, Ind., and preventing a crash that could have killed or injured others on the ground.
''The controller talked him in with instructions so precise that they were practically hand signals,'' Edelstein said. ''If anything went wrong, that jet would have gone down in a populated area and we could have had a real disaster.''
Amato, 28, said McCoy`s direction ''meant the difference between life and death. He brought an aircraft without an engine to a runway on an overcast day and eliminated the possibility of ejecting.''
Amato thanked McCoy in a telephone conversation and said he planned to follow up with a case of cold beer.
''I`m ready for a beer myself,'' said Amato, a fighter pilot since 1982, now assigned to the General Dynamics aircraft manufacturing and testing facility at Ft. Worth.
The drama began at about 10:20 a.m., when Amato, on a seven-hour run from Ft. Worth to an air refueling rendevous over Lake Michigan, lost oil pressure 38 miles south of Glenview, according to Glenview spokesman Lt. Mike Filippell.
After Amato declared an emergency, McCoy took over from controller Phil Mullis and directed the jet toward the north suburban military base. Amato`s F-16C ''Flying Falcon'' was 15,000 feet over Lake Michigan, 10 to 12 miles east of Glenview, when the jet`s single engine erupted in flames and failed, cutting power to all electronic instruments and forcing Amato to steer the jet manually.
With just 30 seconds between engine failure and touch down, McCoy guided Amato over the densely populated North Shore to the Glenview air base. When the disabled craft finally cleared Saturday`s dense, low-level clouds, Amato was just 1,000 feet from the runway.
A second F-16C pilot, who flew behind Amato`s jet in chase position, monitored the crippled plane`s landing gear and approach.
The entire episode lasted about four minutes, McCoy estimated.
''I didn`t have time to do anything but give instructions,'' McCoy said Saturday. ''There was no time for panic or reassurances.''
Tracking the jet by radar, McCoy said he instructed Amato, ''Start a left turn, stop turn, start a right turn,'' interspersed with estimated distance from the airfield.
Steel cables stretched across the runway halted Amato`s jet on the ground. Neither Amato nor Edelstein of the FAA could say what caused the jet`s engine to fail.
''I was shaken for a while afterwards,'' McCoy said, ''but once I talked to the pilot on the ground, I sure felt good.''
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Avenger
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BTW, I just want to point out that my, and I take the liberty of assuming your, comments are not directed at Wader, but rather at the poster of the original video and commentary that was clueless and misleading.
Just revisiting this conversation and seeing how it might be misconstrued I wanted to make that point. Carry on.
dsedy
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This is really cool
The Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing team completed mission profile flight tests for the Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition.
The flights were conducted with the Defiant X, a co-axial helicopter that derives most of its forward thrust from a tail-mounted propeller. Earlier this month, it flew its first mission profile of low-level flight operations and confined area landings.
The Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing team completed mission profile flight tests for the Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition.
The flights were conducted with the Defiant X, a co-axial helicopter that derives most of its forward thrust from a tail-mounted propeller. Earlier this month, it flew its first mission profile of low-level flight operations and confined area landings.
My comments are directed to anyone who posts something without checking whether or not they're correct or appropriate...
Avenger
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Another reminder to me not to take liberties. As if my wife's reminders aren't enough. Carry on.
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