Tag Archive | United States Navy
Navy’s Laser Weapons Just 2 Years Away, Admiral Says | THE JEENYUS CORNER
THE JEENYUS CORNER By Lee Ferran Whoever wins the upcoming presidential election, by halfway through the new term the Commander-in-Chief could be wielding a new weapon straight out of science fiction: laser cannons. That’s how close the U.S. Navy is to being able to field the first generation of “directed energy” weapons aboard ships, according […]
Invisible Russian submarine navigates U.S. waters
Natalya Kovalenko, INDRUS.IN This summer, an Akula-class submarine equipped with long-range ballistic missiles entered the Gulf of Mexico unnoticed. Without breaking international law a Russian nuclear-powered submarine successfully accomplished its training mission near the coast of the United States. The submarine, which is equipped with long-range cruise missiles, shuttled for one month in the Gulf […]
Official: US ship fires on boat off Dubai, 1 dead
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy says a security team aboard one of its ships fired on a small boat after it disregarded warnings and raced toward the vessel near the Dubai port of Jebel Ali.. Lt Greg Raelson, a spokesman for the Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, says sailors aboard the USNS […]
U.S. military ship fires on small boat in Persian Gulf; 1 killed
A U.S. military supply ship fired at a small boat in the Persian Gulf on Monday after it came too close to the ship, apparently killing one person on board, two U.S. officials said. The incident happened near Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates. The crew of the USNS Rappahannock fired several warning shots before the […]
U.S. Sends Large Number of Warships and Planes to Persian Gulf
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com July 3, 2012 The U.S. Navy’s “mothership,” the USS Ponce, will serve as staging platform in the Persian Gulf. Following a move by Iran to blunt an EU-imposed oil import embargo that went into effect on Sunday, the New York Times reports that the Pentagon has moved “significant military reinforcements” into the […]
