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Today is World Submarine Day. I can tell from your surprise that you didn't see that coming... :sneaky: https://unn.ua/en/news/april-11-submarine-day-international-anime-day https://www.cornwallseawaynews.com/community/national-submarine-day/ Supposedly it's a day to remember those souls who...

Seems like a pretty entry level type of YouTube military channel but I like the weird generic voiced narration and scripting and mega list formation. It sounds like someone reading a Wiki article. Still makes nice background viewing. Also not sure how accurate it is. Some of the comments...

USS Texas in drydock.

Some of the recent military naming conventions have been woke and cringe, including with Navy Ships, but even though I can't recall him having any connection with the military, I think it's awesome the US Navy named a ship after the recently deceased Friends actor Matthew Perry. The USNS...

USS Kamehameha which was the last of the '41 for Freedom' Fleet Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines built between 1959-1967. Forty one boats built across five different classes with the above one serving for almost thirty seven years in service, the longest of any nuclear powered submarine...

Need to keep the Ottoman backed Barbary Pirates at bay. We can't afford to lose Crete, Rhodes and Cyprus again.

Perun Did a Video on Aircraft Carriers and their Future. The video starts with a brief history of the Carrier and its origins, what is a carrier and the different types, before covering all of the various countries that operate carriers starting with the US Navy, and covering France, the...

Battle of Drobak Sound forcesub. Not sure replacing the Blucher with the USS Gerald R. Ford and putting it in the exact same position as the German Heavy Cruiser is worth such an expensive simulation but there you go.

What ship is it?

The Principality of Gallia needs one definitely.

Oh hell yeah! I am FULL OF APPRECIATION RIGHT NOW!!! This concept is known as the Joint Mobile Offshore Base or JMOB and was featured in the April 2003 issue of Popular Mechanics. Which is surprising, it definitely has the feeling of those WonderWeapon concepts you see in magazines...

Some neat posters and infographics pertaining to the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force Fleet. https://www.navalanalyses.com/2019/01/fleets-26-japan-maritime-self-defense.html

Apparently thanks to Environmental Groups who disputed that there was more then ten tons of asbestos on board, they put pressure on Turkey to not scrap the vessel. So Turkey declined scrapping the ship for $1.8 million, the ship never passed the Straights of Gibralter and spent the past several...

This would make a nice landmark in Fallout: Rockies where the Protagonist is enlisted by the Followers of Bright to activate one of the Battleship turrets in order to defend the ruins of Denver from the Great Khan Empire of Wyoming.

The US Navy's Smallest Active Duty Vessel. It be a mini-tug used in port to push around naval ships and submarines powered by a turbocharged Cummins Diesel Engine. Some of these tiny boats are used as security tugs and move around the barriers that keep the large US Navy vessels protected while...

Sweden's Last Wooden Warship. The Minesweeper HMS Norsten, retired in 1998.

The banner is in Ukrainian colors. I hope we're not sending it to Ukraine. I don't think the Black Seas Fleet has been that depleted.

Time to appreciate how Italian carriers are getting bigger... thicker and longer... with even more endurance presumably featuring the Garibaldi, Cavour and Trieste. Though jury is still out if Italy will run out of oil again. :p

Royal Navy's HMS Tamar hanging out in the idyllic Philippines. It is a River-class Offshore Patrol Vessel launched only a few years ago. Fourteen River-class OPV's were built, with eight in the service of the Royal Navy, another transferred to service with the Bahrain Navy, three more built...

Article comparing the future Ford-Class Carriers, China's planned Type-003 Fujian-class Carrier and le France's PA-NG (Porte-avions de nouvelle génération) Carrier. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/07/u-s-navy-china-and-frances-future-aircraft-carriers-compared/