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Warship Wednesday Aug 19, 2015: The first of the bucking ‘165s
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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Warship Wednesday Aug 26, 2015: The Finnish Lighthouse Battleships
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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Congress not impressed with LCS mine hunting program
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert tours the Lockheed Martin undersea systems facilities in Riviera Beach. While there, Greenert viewed a littoral combat ship remote minehunting system...
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Infamous French frogman says I’m sorry
In 1955, the humble 131-foot fishing trawler Sir William Hardy was launched in Scotland and soon found herself in the service of the UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food board for twenty...
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EOD dances with the Iver 3 in the Persian Gulf
One of the more quiet entries into harbor and coastal mine clearing that the Navy has been working on besides the more high profile RMS as used by the LCS, is devices like Ocean Server’s Iver 3...
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Is that a banana torpedo in your shed, or are you just happy to see me?
One funny looking crab pot A Kongsberg Remus model UUV operated by Boeing conducting ‘sonar tests’ for the Big Blue popped up by a waterman’s boat in the Chesapeake so guess what he did… From the...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 16, 2015: The Long Legged Bird of the Java Sea
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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Warship Wednesday Dec.23, 2015: The lost jewel from Bizerte
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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Meet Seagull, Israel’s new USV robot boat
Elbit Systems has a new 40-foot unmanned surface vehicle, the Seagull, which is designed to operate in pairs for either mine sweeping or sub busting. The idea is the first vehicle will have...
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Navy to get more Archerfish
Big Blue is looking to get up to 1,000 additional Archerfish mine destructor vehicles (tiny, really maneuverable, slow torpedoes) for the AN/ASQ-235 Airborne Mine Neutralisation System (AMNS)....
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Caching done right
The Latvian-based Legenda relic hunter group found five sealed artillery powder cans while poking around the forests. When unearthed the munitions found inside led the group to conclude it was a...
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The Extorp..
WATERS NEAR GUAM (Mar. 07, 2016) The Arleigh Burke-Class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG-85) fires an MK-54 exercise torpedo (EXTORP) over the port side during an anti-submarine warfare...
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Meet the new Echo Voyager unmanned underwater vehicle
We all live in a yellow submarine… Boeing’s massive 51-foot Echo Voyager, debuted yesterday, is an outgrowth of their 18-foot Echo Ranger and 32-foot Echo Seeker prototype testbed UUV’s– which were...
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The Quai Vat of the Plain of Reeds
In 1959 this chap by the name of Christopher Cockerell working for Saunders-Roe on the Isle of Wight came up with the first working and practical hovercraft, the “Saunders-Roe Nautical 1” (SR.N1),...
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Hard luck minesweeper
In the 1950s, with mines being a big deal in opening stages of the Korean War, the possibility of the next naval war coming complete with thousands of Soviet M08 seamines, plus with a lingering half...
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Warship Wednesday March 30, 2016: Of Mines and Khartoum
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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Meet ACTUV
DARPA just released some neat but brief 360-view footage of their Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) including some of it underway at a good clip (27 knots). The...
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Get some, and have a jolly good time doing so
Photo source © IWM A 6312 taken by Lt. L C Priest. Colourised by Joshua Barrett from the UK. Commander Lionel James Spencer Ede DSO RN, Commander of Minesweeping and Patrol, Dover, testing a rarely...
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And her name shall be Sea Hunter
Just unveiled a few weeks ago, the 132-foot USV which aims to be the Navy’s newest 21st Century expendable sub-chaser has been formally christened. Part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
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Rocking the Panzerknacker
The 3kg Hafthohlladung (“adhesive hollow charge”) was a shaped-charge anti-tank mine developed by the Wehrmacht from 1942 onward. Three magnets around the outer rim could be used to attach it to armor...
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