Airborne early warning links
September 11th, 2009 | Aviation Chiefs Royal Navy Science and technology Ships Submarines Washington | Posted by Phil Ewing
Much as the E-2C Hawkeyes of VAW 115, the "Liberty Bells," become a strike group's eyes in the sky, so too do today's links give early warning about what's new on the Web // MC3 Jarod Hodge/ Navy
Bow catapult launchin’, air-searchin’, combat air patrol-vectorin’, friend-or-foe identifyin’ links, orbiting high above the strike group to alert you in advance about these items on the Web:
- The reef-ization of the destroyer Arthur W. Radford, which you learned about awhile ago here on the Deck, is reportedly going to be “a big deal” for Maryland tourism.
- A Royal Navy sailor has become the first woman in that august service, and only the second woman in Britain’s military, to receive the prestigious Military Cross.
- An marine inventor claims his new light submarine “has capability greater than the U.S. Navy”
- You probably thought “leaders” was just a normal English word, but it’s actually an acronym, according to this — on a related matter, hooya, chiefs!
- Navy Times told you recently about Virginia Sen. Jim Webb’s worries about the state of the Navy’s four shipyards — looks like he’s not the only one who’s concerned.