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Iran test-fires long-range missile during naval exercises in the Gulf amid rising tension over its nuclear programme!
Iran says it has successfully test-fired a long-range missile during naval exercises in the Gulf, flexing its military muscle to show it could target Israel and US bases in the region.
The announcement came a day after Iran tested claimed to have successfully tested a new medium-range, ground-to-air missile.
The exercises are taking place amid rising tension over Iran's disputed nuclear programme, which western powers believe is working on developing atomic bombs.
Tehran denies the accusation and last week said it would stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz if the west carried out threats to impose sanctions on its oil exports.
"We have test-fired a long-range shore-to-sea missile called Qader [which translates as capable], which managed to successfully destroy predetermined targets in the Gulf," Deputy Navy Commander Mahmoud Mousavi told the official news agency IRNA on Monday.
Iran earlier said it would test-fire two long-range missiles - Qader and another system called Nour (light) - to display its resolve to counter any attack by Israel or the US.
Mousavi said observers from the country's closest Arab ally, Syria, would attend the last day of the 10-day exercise.
The US and Israel have not ruled out military action against Iran if diplomacy fails to resolve the Islamic state's nuclear row with the west. The US has already banned imports of Iranian crude, which the EU is also considering.
The US Fifth Fleet reacted to Iran's threat to stop oil flows, saying it will not allow any disruption of traffic in the Gulf. Iran said it had no intention to close the Strait of Hormuz.
"No order has been given for the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. But we are prepared for various scenarios," state television quoted navy chief Habibollah Sayyari as saying.Iran test-fires long-range missile during naval exercises in the Gulf amid rising... more
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Here's A great book by former radio personality :William Cooper...Also a FORMER NAVAL PERSONAL & INTELLIGENCE...He also was with the air force...he was killed in a gun battle with two supposed plain clothed officers for a suspected warrent..well you'll love the book...Here's A great book by former radio personality :William Cooper...Also a FORMER... more
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ARETHA FRANKLIN SANG “I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU” for the happy couple & their 670 guests, telling reporters, “Yes, I do,” believe marriage equality should be legalized nationally at Sunday night's mega wedding & reception for Bill White & Bryan Eure at NYC's world-famous Four Seasons restaurant.
White's the former head of the USS Intrepid Museum & was once-thought to be Obama’s next Secretary of the Navy. “Red, white & blue spotlights roved the building’s facade. Guests walked up one of 3 carpets—red, white or blue—flanked by 40 uniformed members of a Naval ROTC Honor Guard,” &, entering the restaurant, were greeted with songs by the NYC Gay Men’s Chorus.
Pronouncing the couple’s vows was Prop 8 lawsuit challenge co-counsel David Boies before former NY Gov. Patterson, former NYC Mayor David Dinkins, Barbara Walters, music mogul Clive Davis, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, & Oprah’s Best Gal Pal Gayle King.
White explained to reporters from “The New York Times,” “The Wall Street Journal,” & even “Women’s Wear Daily” that they meant the event to be as much a political statement as a personal celebration.
“We have each other; that’s the blessing we have from above,” Mr. White said. “There are a lot of people who can’t get married who love each other dearly, and we hope people see it’s not such a bad thing and it’s not hurting anybody.”
http://tinyurl.com/43rhvk9ARETHA FRANKLIN SANG “I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU” for the happy couple &... more
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Sailors who took part in the Libya campaign will be among hundreds of Royal Navy personnel to learn they are being made redundant later this week.
Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15070911Sailors who took part in the Libya campaign will be among hundreds of Royal Navy... more
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Here is a talented bunch in our military - talented military band cover's Adele's hit single, 'Rolling In The Deep'.
The singer is awesome. No information on who the singer is... if you know, post a comment below.
Update: the singer is SSG Angie Johnson. Originally from St. Louis, MO. Pride of Ritenour High School. You are awesome, Angie!Here is a talented bunch in our military - talented military band cover's... more
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Norfolk— The father of a young woman killed in what prosecutors called a drunk-driving crash attacked the defense attorney outside court on Tuesday, moments after the jury acquitted the driver of causing two deaths and severely hurting a third passenger.
Simon Kok, a retired New York detective and father of 22-year-old Lauren Kok, charged at defense attorney Andrew Sacks outside of Norfolk Circuit Court. Kok was restrained by a police officer who had testified in the trial, but not before Kok knocked over Sacks' file boxes an kicked the attorney's luggage cart.
The confrontation came as NewsChannel 3 was interviewing the defense attorney about the verdict. Kok, a soft-spoken man from Staten Island, was angered in part because of Sacks' suggestions to the jury about his daughter. Sacks said that Lauren Kok - the only person sober in the car - might have engaged in some kind of "sexual shenanigans" in the back seat. That, according to Sacks, was part of a series of distractions that contributed to the crash. The lawyer based that on a paramedic who said he found Lauren outside the crashed car without her pants.
Special Prosecutor B. Thomas Reed said Lauren's pants probably ripped as bystanders pulled her from the crumpled and burning wreckage. He told the jury the defense speculations were "absurd." A surviving passenger, Ryan Petrosky, testified none of the passengers did anything to distract Freeman. The crash killed Lauren Kok and Cameron Richardson. Rear-seat passengers Ryan Petrosky and Thomas Jaskel survived, but Jaskel, a former Navy helicopter pilot, is paralyzed and severely brain damaged. Richard B. Freeman III had been charged with aggravated involuntary manslaughter and maiming, but the jury declared him not guilty on all charges.
None of the four passengers in the car knew the driver. The four accepted a ride from Freeman when they could not reach a cab company at closing time at the Red Dog Saloon on Colley Avenue in July, 2009. According to testimony, the four thought Freeman was sober, but a hospital blood test after the crash showed he was among the most intoxicated. A toxicologist said his blood-alcohol concentration was at least 0.10, over the state's legal limit of 0.08.
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he got off on all counts by blaiming the dead girls for the crash. The jury honestly believed that his drinking had 0 impact on the crsh. anybody else getting sick of these double standards.Norfolk— The father of a young woman killed in what prosecutors called a... more
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In times of economic stress, government employees are heavily scrutinized, just as many people in the private sector are. However, as the scrutiny goes up, so do many of the famous myths of the "easy" life as a government employee.In times of economic stress, government employees are heavily scrutinized, just as... more
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The death of San Diego sailor Benjamin D. Rast in Afghanistan last week may have been caused by “friendly fire” from an unmanned aerial drone.
The Associated Press is reporting that Rast, a hospital corpsman, and a Marine reservist were killed when they were mistaken for insurgents Apr. 6 in southern Afghanistan.
A Predator drone fired the Hellfiremissile that killed the 23-year-old sailor and the 26-year-old Marine, in what may be the first case of American troop deaths from an unmanned aerial vehicle.
The Associated Press said the two men were hit while moving toward other Marines who were under fire in Helmand province.
Reports from the field indicate that Marines who were under attack there mistook Smith and Rast for militants heading their way and called in a strike from an Air Force Predator, the news service said.
The Pentagon has said only that the incident is under investigation. The International Security Assistance Force, the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, issued a statement saying that the Apr. 6 deaths were a result of friendly fire but gave no other details.
The U.S. military has used aerial drones extensively in Iraq and, now, in Afghanistan because the vehicles can stay in the air longer and operate at lower cost than manned crafts.
Rast was part of San Diego Naval Medical Center’s Expeditionary Medical Force Detachment.
After joining the Navy in April, 2009, he left San Diego in November to be a field "doc" for Marines fighting in Afghanistan.
"He was a remarkable sailor who was respected by his peers and co-workers for his integrity and strong work ethic," said Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Pietro Martone, in a Navy news release. "He was frequently complimented by his patients for his outstanding customer service skills."
Rast is survived by his father and stepfather. The Navy hospital in San Diego is planning a memorial service for later this month.
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'Friendly fire'...another example of the Orwellian state we live in. Pat Tillman anyone? Someone pushed a button, made a decision. Will they be held accountable or get a slap on the wrist like the Afghan kill team that murdered innocent children and posed with their corpses as trophies? Bad press for a Nobel Prize winner, unconstitutionally starting another war at the mandate of his UN masters.
Look at that picture. Could be from WWII, but it was last week. Sure, he's a hero. He didn't know that 9/11 was a staged event, perpetrated by rogue elements of our government usurped by the New World Order. And if people knew of the treason, there would be no war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya. We'd still have some rights, maybe our country wouldn't be going in the sh!tter so fast and this poor guy wouldn't have had a bomb dropped on his head by some coward with a PlayStation controller.The death of San Diego sailor Benjamin D. Rast in Afghanistan last week may have been... more
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Turkish President Gül is in Indonesia for an official visits. According to the President’s office, following eight cooperation agreements signed between the two countries, during the visit.
AGREEMENTS SIGNED BETWEEN TURKEY AND INDONESIA
A Memorandum of Understanding in Technical Matters; Cooperation Agreement on Defense Industry; A Memorandum of Understanding in Cooperation between Small and Medium-Scaled Enterprises; A Memorandum of Understanding in Cultural Exchange Program; Sea Transport Agreement; A Memorandum of Understanding in Developing Labor Force; A Memorandum of Understanding in Investment Support and a Memorandum of Understanding in Cooperation on Exchange of News and Programs between Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) and the Indonesian State Television.
I have emphasized the Cooperation Agreement on Defence Industry, because according to Turkish Zaman newspaper this agreement cover sales of two Milgem class corvettes to Indonesia. I was not able to find another independent source on the internet to verify this information. Though there a few Indonesian websites confirming the signing of the above mentioned agreements between two nations.
If this news turns out to be true, then it will be big news. As it will be the first major export success for Milgem and important milestone for Turkish defense industry.
Let’s wait and see how things will develop.
Read More http://eboatz.com/blogs/entry/Indonesia-To-Buy-2-Milgem-Corvettes-From-Turkey
Class overview
Name: MİLGEM
Builders: Istanbul Naval Shipyard
Subclasses: Ada class
TF-100 class
Building: 2
Planned: 12
General characteristics
Class and type: Patrol and Anti-Submarine Warfare[1]
Type: Corvette
Displacement: 2,000 tonnes
Length: 99.00 m
Beam: 14.40 m
Draught: 3.75 m
Propulsion: 1 gas turbine, 2 diesels, 2 shafts, 30,000 kW (CODAG)
Speed: Economy: 15 knots
Maximum: 29+ knots
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,480 km) @ 15 knots
Endurance: 21 days with logistic support, 10 days autonomous
Complement: 93 including aviation officers, with accommodation for up to 104
Sensors and
processing systems:
Combat Management System: G-MSYS (GENESIS MİLGEM Savaş Yönetim Sistemi)
Search radar: SMART-S Mk2
Sonar: TBT-01
Communication: SatCom, GPS, LAN, ECDIS/WECDIS, Link 11/16
Navigation: ECPINS-W
IPMS: UniMACS 3000
Others: X-Band radar, fire control radar, navigation radar, LPI radar
Electronic warfare
and decoys: EW radar, Laser/RF systems, ASW jammers, DG, SSTD
Armament:
Guns:
1 x 76 mm (retractable for lower radar cross section, guidance by fire control radar and electro-optical systems), A position
2 x 12.7 mm Aselsan STAMP Stabilized Machine Gun Platform (guidance by Laser/IR/TV and electro-optical systems, automatic and manual modes), B position
Anti-surface missiles:
8 x Harpoon (and/or RBS15 Mk.IIIand/or NSM)
Anti-aircraft missiles:
21 x RAM (PDMS)
Mk.41 VLS for ESSM (TF-100 class)
Torpedoes:
2 x 324 mm Mk.32 triple launchers forMk.46 torpedoes
Aircraft carried:
Hangar and platform for:
S-70B2 Seahawk ASW helicopters
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
Aviation facilities: Capability of storing armaments, 20 tons of JP-5 aircraft fuel, aerial refueling (HIRF) and maintenance systemsTurkish President Gül is in Indonesia for an official visits. According to the... more
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To hear Navy Petty Officer Stephen C. Jones tell it, what happened in his bedroom one night last month was purely innocuous: Another male sailor came by to watch “The Vampire Diaries,” and they both dozed off in the same bed.
“That is the honest, entire story,” Jones said.To hear Navy Petty Officer Stephen C. Jones tell it, what happened in his bedroom one... more
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NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia — Walking into a control station at Jefferson Labs, Quentin Saulter started horsing around with his colleague, Carlos Hernandez. Saulter had spent the morning showing two reporters his baby: the laboratory version of the Navy’s death ray of the future, known as the free-electron laser, or FEL. He asked Hernandez, the head of injector- and electron-gun systems for the project, to power a mock-up electron gun — the pressure-pumping heart of this energy weapon — to 500 kilovolts. No one has ever cranked the gun that high before.
Smiling through his glasses and goatee, Hernandez motioned for Saulter to click and drag a line on his computer terminal up to the 500-kV mark. He had actually been running the electron injector at that kilovoltage for the past eight hours. It’s a goal that eluded him for six years.
Saulter, the program manager for the free-electron laser, was momentarily stunned. Then he realized what just happened. “This is very significant,” he says, still a bit shocked. Now, the Navy “can speed up the transition of FEL-weapons-system technology” from a Virginia lab to the high seas.
Translated from the Nerd: Thanks to Hernandez, the Navy will now have a more powerful death ray aboard a future ship sooner than expected, in order to burn incoming missiles out of the sky or zap through an enemy vessel’s hull.
“Five hundred [kilovolts] has been the project goal for a long time,” says George Neil, the FEL associate director at Jefferson Labs, whose Rav 4 license plate reads LASRMAN. “The injector area is one of the critical areas” of the whole project.
The free-electron laser is one of the Navy’s highest-priority weapons programs, and it’s not hard to see why. “We’re fast approaching the limits of our ability to hit maneuvering pieces of metal in the sky with other maneuvering pieces of metal,” says Rear Adm. Nevin Carr, the Navy’s chief of research. The next level: “fighting at the speed of light and hypersonics” — that is, the free-electron laser and the Navy’s Mach-8 electromagnetic rail gun.
Say goodbye to an adversary’s antiship missiles, and prepare to fire bullets from 200 miles away, far from shoreline defenses. No wonder the Navy asked Congress to double its budget for directed-energy weapons this week to $60 million, most of which will go to the free-electron laser.
It won’t be until the 2020s, Carr estimates, that a free-electron laser will be mounted on a ship. (Same goes for the rail gun.) Right now, the free-electron laser produces a 14-kilowatt beam. It needs to get to 100 kilowatts to be viable to defend a ship, the Navy thinks. But what happened at Jefferson Labs Friday shrinks the time necessary to get to 100 kilowatts and expands the lethality of the laser. Here’s why.
All lasers start off as atoms that get agitated into becoming photons, light that’s focused through some kind of medium, like chemicals or crystals, into a beam operating on a particular wavelength. But the free-electron laser is unique: It doesn’t use a medium, just supercharged electrons run through a racetrack of superconductors and magnets — an accelerator, to be technical — until it produces a beam that can operate on multiple wavelengths.
That means the beam from the free-electron laser won’t lose potency as it runs through all the crud in ocean air, because its operators will be able to adjust its wavelengths to compensate. And if you want to make it more powerful, all you need to do is add electrons.
But to add electrons, you need to inject pressure into your power source, so the electrons shake out and run through the racetrack. That’s done through a gun called an injector. In the basement of a building in Jefferson Labs, a 240-foot racetrack uses a 300-kilovolt injector to pressurize the electrons out of 200 kilowatts of power and send them shooting through the accelerator.
Currently, the free-electron laser project produces the most-powerful beam in the world, able to cut through 20 feet of steel per second. If it gets up to its ultimate goal, of generating a megawatt’s worth of laser power, it’ll be able to burn through 2,000 feet of steel per second. Just add electrons.
And that’s why Hernandez’s achievement is so important. He shrugs, concealing his pride. A powerful accelerator at Cornell University is “stuck at 250″ kilovolts, he grins. And he’s on a roll. Hernandez’s team fired up the injector in December with enough pressure to prove the FEL will ultimately reach megawatt class. Steel: Beware.
“It definitely shortens our time frame for getting to 100 kilowatts,” Saulter says, and it produces a “more powerful light beam.” But he won’t speculate on how much sooner this means the laser can get into the fleet. In any case, the Navy doesn’t yet have the systems to divert the amount of power from its ships’ generators necessary to operate the laser, but anticipates it will by the 2020s.
There are still a lot of obstacles to getting the free-electron laser onto a ship. The 240-foot racetrack that Neil built at Jefferson Labs — a scale model of one that’s underground here, seven-eighths-of-a-mile long — is way too big. Boeing has a contract to build an initial workable prototype by 2012, but by 2015 the racetrack has to be much, much smaller: 50 feet by 20 feet by 10 feet. And as the model shrinks, it’s got to get more efficient in harvesting photons from electrons.
But that starts by getting more electrons out of the power source.The better the injector is at that, the more powerful a beam results, even presuming that the engineers can’t keep finding efficient ways of getting their photons. Walking into a conference room, Saulter is still stunned. He figured he’d just wind Hernandez up by putting the project’s ultimate goal in his colleague’s face. “I had no idea he’d get up to that today.”NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia — Walking into a control station at Jefferson Labs,... more
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"The White House has ordered the Pentagon to squeeze almost all growth from its spending over the next five years, which will require eventually shrinking the Army and Marine Corps and seeking controversial increases in the fees paid by for retired, working-age veterans for their health insurance, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday.""The White House has ordered the Pentagon to squeeze almost all growth from its... more
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WASHINGTON — The United States Navy removed the commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Enterprise on Tuesday, citing his “profound lack of good judgment” for creating and starring in a series of coarse and sexually explicit onboard videos several years ago that were meant as entertainment for the ship’s crew.
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The videos were broadcast to crew members on the aircraft carrier Enterprise via closed-circuit television in 2006 and 2007.
The officer, Capt. Owen Honors, was permanently relieved of his duties some two weeks before the Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered carrier, is due to leave its home port in Norfolk, Va., to support combat missions in Afghanistan.
Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., the commander of the United States Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, said in a statement that after viewing the videos, he had lost confidence in the captain’s ability to lead. Captain Honors’s lack of judgment and professionalism, the admiral said, “calls into question his character and completely undermines his credibility to continue to serve effectively in command.”
The videos include scenes of simulated masturbation, simulated eating of feces, a simulated rectal exam, antigay slurs and a pair of men and a pair of women showering together. They were produced by Captain Honors and shown to sailors and Marines aboard the Enterprise, which has a crew of some 6,000, in 2006 and 2007. The videos, which also include a scene that suggests an officer is engaged in sex with a donkey in his stateroom, were first disclosed by the Norfolk newspaper, The Virginian-Pilot.
Capt. Dee L. Mewbourne, the chief of staff of Navy Cyber Forces and a former commander of the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, was permanently assigned as the commanding officer of the Enterprise. Captain Honors has been reassigned to an administrative position at Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk. The Navy said he was not available for comment.
It remains unclear why it took five years for the videos to surface and whether any of Captain Honors’s superiors knew about the videos, shown weekly on closed-circuit television aboard the Enterprise. Captain Honors, who was the Enterprise’s executive officer, or second in command, at the time of the videos, was supervised by the ship’s commanding officer, Lawrence S. Rice, now a rear admiral.
Two other superior officers, Rear Adm. Raymond Spicer and Vice Adm. Daniel Holloway, commanded the Enterprise strike group — made up of the combat and support vessels that accompanied the carrier — during Captain Honors’s time as executive officer. Typically the admirals would have lived on the Enterprise. Admiral Spicer recently retired; Admiral Holloway is now commander of the Second Fleet.
Admiral Harvey’s statement said that the Navy was continuing an investigation into the videos, including “the actions of other senior officers who knew of the videos and the actions they took in response.”
In one of the videos, the actress Glenn Close makes an appearance, the result of video taken when she visited the carrier four years ago. In a statement Tuesday, Ms. Close called the use of her image in the video “deeply offensive and insulting.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 11,000 people had posted comments on a Facebook page in support of Captain Honors. The vast majority of them expressed the view that the videos were morale boosters and that the news media were overreacting.!
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Capt. Owen Honors is relieved of command for 'lack of good judgment and professionalism.' The incident highlights the military's cultural struggle as it faces repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell.'
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The Navy video scandal brought about by Captain Owen Honors has garnered quite a buzz of controversy, but the Navy hasn't revealed the fate of the carrier officer yet. At this point it is unclear whether Honors, captain of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, will keep his position.
According to the Virginian-Pilot, Honors produced and broadcasted a series of short videos during an "XO Movie Night" meant to entertain the crew that featured "anti-gay remarks, sexual jokes, subordinates parading in drag, and sailors pretending to masturbate and shower together" for the crew.
Since an edited version of the video was released by the newspaper over the weekend, U.S. Fleet Forces Command has launched an investigation into Honor's lewd videos.
Read more: http://www.thirdage.com/news/navy-video-scandal-will-capt-owen-honors-lose-his-job_1-3-2011#ixzz1A4OYOly6The Navy video scandal brought about by Captain Owen Honors has garnered quite a buzz... more
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