BBC – The USS Abraham Lincoln which despatched the first helicopters to deliver aid to Aceh after the tsunami is to leave the area.
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Category Archives: USNavy
US Navy – Admiral faces uncharted waters with new classes of surface ships
Virginian Pilot – The Navy’s emerging surface ship force that Rear Adm. Terrance T. Etnyre will command from the Pacific probably will resemble little of the present fleet and even less of the one he’s known for the past 30 years.
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US Navy – Raytheon's Penetrating JSOW Enters Full-Rate Production
Sea Power – Defense news from around the fleet.
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US Navy – U.S. Military Scaling Back Relief Ops
Associated Press – The USS Abraham Lincoln prepares to return home.
US Navy – U.S. hospital ship to sail from Singapore to tsunami-hit Indonesia
Deutsche Presse Agentur – The hospital ship USNS Mercy sets sail from Singapore to a position off of Sumatra.
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US Navy – US Navy officer attacks 'travelling circus of aid workers' for impeding the tsunami relief effort in Indonesia
Daily Telegraph – An interesting dissenting view on the tsunami relief effort, from aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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US Navy – Whale Stranding in N.C. Followed Navy Sonar Use
Washington Post – At least 37 whales beached themselves and died along the North Carolina shore earlier this month soon after Navy vessels on a deep-water training mission off the coast used powerful sonar as part of the exercise.
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US Navy – Navy Releases Photos of Crash Damage to Nuclear Submarine
New York Times – Pictures of the damaged bow of the USS San Francisco.
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US Navy – The Tomcat's final flight
Virginian Pilot – As their 32-year run as the premier Navy fighter begins to wane, the F-14 Tomcats that no one needs are being fed into a junk yard’s shredder, nose first, to become blocks of aluminum for cans, crates, even cars.
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US Navy – Modeling and Simulation: Working With Systems That Do Not Yet Exist
SeaPower – Modeling and simulation (M&S) is a new reality in naval warfare. The use of mockups, scale models and computerized M&S reduces the risk involved in developing, building and testing new combat systems. With M&S, training is more available, effective and realistic, fostering rapid, less costly validation of future concepts and new rules of engagement.
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US Navy – Danger Zone That Wasn't, and a Sub's Hidden Peril
New York Times – Satellite images of the area where the nuclear submarine USS San Francisco grounded two weeks ago clearly show a wedge-shaped undersea mountain that stretches across more than a mile of a desolate expanse of the South Pacific.
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US Navy – U.S. Navy May Adjust UAV Plans
Aviation Week and Space Technology – The U.S. Navy is trying to harmonize its unmanned aircraft plans and is preparing to tweak its intelligence system in the coming months in response to guidance issued by the service’s top officer.
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US Navy – U.S. Sees End to Tsunami Relief, Survivors Worry
Reuters – U.S. forces said they were prepared to wind down tsunami relief efforts in Asia.
CNN – Indonesia says it won’t expel foreign aid troops – The USS Bonhomme Richard is being replaced by the USS Essex off of Sumatra.
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US Marines – Three ships departing to help hurricane recovery in Caribbean
Virginian Pilot – The USS Saipan Expeditionary Strike Group will leave Norfolk today for the Caribbean, where its sailors will assist in a humanitarian effort to rebuild schools, dig wells and provide medical support in the aftermath of Hurricane Jeanne.
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US Navy – With Navy changes, loss of carrier may be OK, study suggests
Virginian Pilot – Critical changes in the way the Navy uses and maintains aircraft carriers may permit the service to retire one of the mammoth ships without substantially weakening the fleetís ability to fight wars or respond to crises, a new report to Congress suggests.
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US Navy – Navy Organization and Missions
SeaPower – The state of the Navy in January 2005.
US Navy – The Mount Whitney charts a new course
Virginian Pilot – The USS Mount Whitney takes over as command ship of the 6th Fleet.
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US Navy – Bush Is Told of Carrier's Value
Associated Press – More about the politics of decommissioning the USS John F. Kennedy.
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US Navy – Submarine Crash Shows Navy Had Gaps in Mapping System
New York Times – A look at some of the problems with the US Navy’s charts.
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US Navy – Indonesia denies U.S. pilots use of airspace; carrier leaves
Associated Press – The aircraft carrier leading the U.S. military’s tsunami relief effort – the USS Abraham Lincoln – steamed out of Indonesian waters yesterday after the country declined to let the ship’s fighter pilots use its airspace for training missions – part of a broad effort by Indonesia to reassert control over its territory.
More from the Washington Post – Indonesia Sets Limits On Foreign Relief Role.
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US Navy – 'Pipe Dream' Becomes Reality as Sub Training Enters Information Age
SeaPower – A look at how submarine training is entering the 21st century.
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US Navy – E-Mail Shows Toll of Crash on Submarine and Sailors
New York Times – The nuclear submarine that ran aground Saturday in the South Pacific hit so “incredibly hard” that about 60 of its 137 crew members were injured and the sailor who died was thrown 20 feet by the impact, according to internal Navy e-mail messages sent by a top admiral.
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US Navy – One ship, two cities: A sea of trouble
Virginian Pilot – The carrier John F. Kennedy could be retired to cut costs under a proposed Department of Defense budget. That could spell the end for Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville, Fla., where the ship is based.
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US Navy – U.S. submarine hit undersea mountain
CNN – The U.S. Navy submarine accident that killed one sailor and injured 24 others occurred when the vessel — traveling at high speed — hit an undersea mountain head-on.
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US Navy – Battle begins over carrier Kennedy
Virginian Pilot – Key members of Virginia’s congressional delegation, including the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, lined up Wednesday to thwart Pentagon plans to retire one of the Navy’s 12 aircraft carriers.
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