4 years anniversary of the sinking of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, the cruiser Moskva

I've never smashed the repost button faster.

Out of action and withdrawn from the Iran War due to a laundry fire. Amazing how easily the mighty can be brought low ...

They also got them early. The first squadrons were active aboard HMS Illustrious by November 1943.

This is an amazing image. Another amazing thing is how many Corsairs the British had; the number will blow your mind

It has been a huge team effort over many years, but the Australian War Memorial's new Anzac Hall is open. This includes "Kandahar Workhorse". It was a great privilege to meet many Chinook veterans & family members, & share their untold stories of bravery & loss, professionalism & humour.

Monday.

IWM A6441, Lt Parnall

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just...

If y'all want to get your sci-fi groove on without having to buy into a streaming service...

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Keep up the good work!

Keeping the Straits Open

This week’s podcast is about keeping the Straits open and how naval bombardment alone is not sufficient to defeat an entrenched enemy.

The Dardanelles run up Jan-Mar 1915 (with some reference to Hormuz)

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The Jetsons lied to us

Here’s a list of my nonfic publications if anyone likes this sort of thing and wants to support me (the Osprey and MMP ones don’t pay royalties fwiw so that doesn’t benefit me directly) and reviews are always welcome navalairhistory.com/about/596-2/

From @navalairhistory.com I have these. Recommend them all.

#otd 1915 the Chatham built HMS Irresistible is one of three Allied battleships lost in an attempt to smash through the Narrows at Gallipoli.

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Hormuz: It may end up being Dardanelles on steroids. One wonders if the Gallipoli solution (boots on the ground) will be needed ...

Love this cold open. Sal, you beautiful man, you’ve done it again. Bab-el Mandeb! 🍻

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Oil painting of Swordfish NE874 'B' returning to an escort carrier after a sorties. The Swordfish biplane with Atlantic paint scheme is in the foreground, approaching HMS Fencer to the left of the painting making her way through an active sea. Waves are high showing white crests, and it is clear that the landing will be challenging. Some merchant vessels of the convoy are in the back. Broken clouds are low and scudding over the sea. Swordfish II NE874 returns to HMS Fencer while supporting convoy RA59, in this superb painting by Terence Lee, which hangs in the wardroom of HMS President. During the sortie - the end of which is depicted here - NE874 attacked two surfaced U-Boats, and it was intially unclear if any damage had been done. However, post-war German records revealed that U-674 was in fact sunk in this attack Posted by Daniel J Wheatcroft on Facebook.

Today's favourite #warart

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Their gunners liked them: youtu.be/utrkd4SDRdw

New book. Beaufighter vs German Flak Ships from Osprey

On this day – 10 February 1941

After returning from service in the Mediterranean, the cruiser HMAS Sydney (D48) is photographed moored off Sydney Cove, with crew members at their stations preparing for the arrival of dignitaries.

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Risky buisiness:
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British? In slouch-hats? Surely that's a capital offence!

The Titan submersible outside in the cold with its machinery in its tail cone exposed to the elements.

To save money, OceanGate left the Titan submersible outside in a parking lot in St. John's, Newfoundland for 3 months during the Canadian winter, exposing the carbon fiber hull and Titan's machinery to freezing temperatures. (1/2)🧵

#Titan #Titanic #maritimehistory #history

The Navy Wings-operated Fairey Swordfish Mk I W5856 biplane torpedo bomber at the Clacton Air Show in 2024 seen from the right against a blue sky with white cloud, above a seagull, which was the name for the Curtiss SOC floatplane

Fairey Swordfish I and Curtiss SOC

Kamikazes and a Barking Dog “We were at GQ [general qua

Proceedings Archive: An eyewitness recounts what he saw during the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Saratoga (CV-3). www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/20...

A reminder, before a certain movie probably makes a big thing of it again:

A young Irish couple did not provide the critical data that made Stagg tell Ike to delay D-Day.

The most critical data came from HMS Hoste, alone out in the Atlantic.

The Blacksod story is nice. But it's not true. /1