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Review – Box261 Russian Gunboat Koreets (Korietz)
MSW Crewmember D.T. [Dr_Who2] brings us an In-box review of Box261 Russian Gunboat Koreets (Korietz) in 1/350.
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Navy Accepts Delivery of Future USS New York
Source: US Navy

WASHINGTON --- The Navy officially accepted delivery of the future USS New York (LPD 21) from Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding (NGSB) during a ceremony Aug. 21 at the company's Avondale shipyard in New Orleans.

New York is the first of three LPD 17-class ships built in honor of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The ship's bow stem was constructed using 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center. The Navy named the eighth and ninth ships of the class - Arlington and Somerset - in honor of the victims of the attacks on the Pentagon and United Flight 93 respectively. Arlington and Somerset are also incorporating materials salvaged from those sites.

New York completed acceptance trials July 24, performing well for the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV). During the detailed inspection, all shipboard systems and equipment, including combat, ship, machinery control and mission systems, were successfully demonstrated during a series of demanding inport and at-sea test events. This trial confirmed the continuing improved class trend in system design specifications and quality assurance programs.

"This ship will be a symbol," said Capt. Bill Galinis, the LPD 17-class program manager for the Navy's Program Executive Office for Ships. "The Navy and the shipbuilder have worked hand-in-hand to deliver this highly capable warship to the Navy and our nation. It has been a tremendous privilege for all of us who have had an opportunity to participate in the construction of this ship."

The principal mission of LPD 17-class amphibious transport dock ships is to transport and deploy the necessary combat and support elements of Marine expeditionary units and brigades. The ship will carry approximately 720 troops and have the capability of transporting and debarking air cushion (LCAC) or conventional landing craft and expeditionary fighting vehicles (EFV), augmented by helicopters or vertical take off and landing aircraft (MV 22). These ships will support amphibious assault, special operations and expeditionary warfare missions through the first half of the 21st century.

New York is the fifth ship of the LPD 17-class and the fifth ship in the Navy to be named after the Empire State. Arrival in New York is scheduled for November. Early events will be focused on ship's crew, their families, first responders and 9/11 families. Public viewing is scheduled in the days prior to and days following the commissioning, slated for Nov. 7.


ATLAS Subsidiary Hagenuk Marinekommunikation to Deliver the Communication System for the 3rd Combat Support Ship
Source: Source: Atlas Elektronik

BREMEN, Germany --- Hagenuk Marinekommunikation GmbH (HMK), a subsidiary of Atlas Elektronik, is also equipping the 3rd combat support ship (EGV) of the German Navy with its communication system. A contract to this effect was signed recently with the consortium for the Class 702, 2nd batch.

HMK will be responsible for the complete integration, installation and setting-to-work of the integrated communication system for the Class 702 replenishment ships; this includes the entire radio equipment for external radio communications as well as the in-ternal communication system.

The communication system features the latest technologies, such as HF broadband antenna systems, adaptive radio techniques, on-board network (LAN) and wireless internal communication.

For HMK, this order is a continuation of the successful and trusting cooperation with the same customer. The combat support ships of the first batch, the “Berlin” and the “Frankfurt am Main”, have already been equipped with communication systems by HMK. The functional capability of the communication systems on these vessels has already been proven in many overseas missions.




Cutty Sark: Greenwich

Today’s website is the Cutty Sark: Greenwich. In her time, no clipper was finer, faster or more famous than the Cutty Sark. And of all those "lovely sisters" that braved the 'roaring forties' (longitude) and traded around the China Seas, it seems fitting that it is she who still survives to tell the tale. Now, over a century later, the Cutty Sark lies proudly at permanent 'anchor' overlooking the River Thames River at maritime Greenwich. Enjoy.
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This Day in U.S. Naval History

1842 - Congress replaces the Board of Navy Commissioners, a group of senior officers who oversaw naval technical affairs, with the five technical bureaus, ancestors of the Systems Commands. One of the 1842 bureaus, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, continues to serve under its original name.
1943 - Commissioning of USS Harmon (DE 678), first Navy ship named for an African-American Sailor.
1944 - Carrier task group begins three-day attack on Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands.
1962 - Last flight of a Navy airship made at NAS Lakehurst, N.J.


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Cutty Sark proudly at permanent 'anchor' overlooking the River Thames River at maritime Greenwich.

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