Naval Gazing

It's weird visiting a doomed museum.

I've long wanted to do an analysis of how bomb accuracy has changed over the last 80 years or so, and how this impacts the cost of destroying a target from the air.

It's time once again for our regular Open Thread.

I've been watching through the documentary series The World at War lately, and figured it was worth talking about here.

Probably the most obscure corner of carrier aviation is COD, Carrier Onboard Delivery.

In mid-October 1944, the American carriers under Admiral Halsey were operating in the waters between Taiwan (then known as Formosa) and the Philippines, to destroy Japanese power in the area before the US invasion of Leyte.

After the Naval Gazing meetup in Dayton, my parents and I headed for Montreal,1 which meant a road trip, mostly across upstate New York.

It's time once again for our regular Open Thread.

When Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran ended in a bloody stalemate, it was natural for both sides to turn to other ways of bringing pressure on their enemies.

One of the first tasks of a new British prime minister is writing four letters.