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Marines new Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC) swimming caterpillar
140711-N-UD469-576 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 11, 2014) A half-scale ultra heavy-lift amphibious connector (UHAC), an amphibious connector prototype created by Navatek Ltd. and the Office of Naval Research,...
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Warship Wednesday July 23, Jules Verne, Meet the U.S. Navy
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Wrecks, Rats, and Roaches in the South China Sea
The loneliest warship in the world isn’t going away any time soon. Yup, you know I’m a sucker for the tales of the BRP Sierra Madre (Ex-USS Harnett County LST-821, in Philippines service as LT-57). You...
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Coast Guard says farewell to the last 41 Foot UTB in service after 41 years.
If you have ever been through a USCG SAR station, or around one, in the past forty years, odds are you came across a ’41 Utility Boat, Large. Some 156 of these were built by the Coast Guard Yard,...
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Warship Wednesday Aug 6: Of an General, an Admiral, a Cadet, Mother’s Day and...
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Bigger night vision you say…well how about this….
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 23, 2014) Airman Zachary Frey, from Scott City, Mo., left, and Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Kyle Roest, from Battleground, Wash., adjust a night vision scope on a .50-caliber machine...
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Florida state’s 85-foot patrol boat
Florida Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation (FWC), with some 1947 full time employees is one of the largest game warden agencies in the country. It also operates one of the largest non-DoD,...
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MARSOC are now Marine Raiders
On the 6th of August, 2014, with the proclamation of Commandant of the Marine Corps General James Amos, MARSOC was officially re-flagged as the Marine Raiders. According to the Commandant ,who...
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Warship Wednesday Aug 13, 2014 A Sad Story of Fish, Genius, Sightseeing and...
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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CBP’s bargain interdiction aircraft
Pretty interesting video of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP’s) Office of Air and Marine (OAM) Multirole Enforcement Aircraft (MEA ). Based on a Beechcraft Super King Air 350ER, some 30...
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52 Days in Honduran jail for Americans on bogus gun charges
Friday I did an interview with Capt. Robert Mayne, Jr of the research vessel Aqua Quest. Mayne and his group have traveled the world doing marine salvage and maritime archeology for decades. Well on a...
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Vive le Mort! Part trois!
As you are probably aware, I am a huge pulp art and military art fan. One of the best there ever was in the business is the famous Mort Kunstler. In the past I’ve posted several of the Master’s works...
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Warship Wednesday August 27, the plucky Perch, hardy frogman steed
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Coasties give the Iranians something to ponder
It was reported earlier this week that a small boat crew from the 110-foot Island class patrol boat USCGC Monomoy (WPB-1326) gave the Iranian Navy/Revolutionary Guard a proverbial bloody nose. It seems...
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The flying mine assassin
Above is the Prototype RAMICS gun and mount on an MH-60S helicopter. The gun is an upgrade of the the 25 mm M242 Bushmaster cannon stretched to fire the same 30mm round as the GAU-8 Avenger gun found...
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More trouble for LCS program
The USS Independence of the General Dynamics Independence Class and USS Freedom of the Lockheed Martin Freedom Class littoral combat ships. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Jan Shultis Two new (and lengthy)...
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Warship Wednesday Sept 10. 2014, Australia’s Most Silent Sub
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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LVT in Saipan
Marine LVT in Saipan’s lagoon. The island, part of the CNMI, became an official U.S. territory in 1986, so in effect this LVT, lost in WWII, came home then. Photo by Brett Seymour, National Park Service
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Warship Wednesday Sept 17, the slow gunboats of the Canal
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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A joint U.S./Japan AIP Diesel Squadron?
James Holmes at National Interest has a lot to say about the Sōryū-class submarines of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. These diesel boats are not your grandpa’s old WWII-era smokers. Equipped...
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