CDR Salamander
National security, maritime challenges, naval issues with a flavoring of other things I find interesting.
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Kabul's Child Sacrifice - Five Years On
Yesterday saw the fifth anniversary of the slaughter at Abbey Gate.
Two years ago, I reposted what I wrote on that day as the news came in. I think it is time again.
I will not forget.
I found myself on X having a few contentious back-a...
Oh, a New Floating Dry Dock? I’ll Take Four More--to Start.
Four decades.
Austal USA launched the Navy’s Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock Medium (AFDM) 15 on July 28. This is the first AFDM built in over 40 years and the largest vessel launched into the Mobile Channel to date. At 12,000 tons, 694 feet...
Saildrone’s Spectre: Making Sub Chasers Great Again?
Earlier this year, I got a quick brief on the upscaled version of Saildrone’s surface unmanned system, which has a solid dozen years of proven performance at sea.
I will admit, I was not fully sold when the program first started with the 7...
NAVAIR’s Counter-Air Gets Back in the Range Game
Back during the previous Cold War, we knew that range was life. We had a heavy fighter in the F-14 built around a beast (for its day) of an air-to-air missile, the AIM-54C Phoenix with its 99.4 nautical mile (nm) range.
A few years ago, we...
Battle Damage Repair for Arleigh Burke–Class Destroyers--with Brad Martin, on Midrats
For me, it is funny but serious that the phrase I started saying in 2019 that we were going to keep building Arleigh Burke DDGs “until the crack of doom” has turned into prophecy.
With the anticipated death of DDG(X) and FFG-62, the Burke...
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