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The U.S. Navy is reportedly deploying a laser weapon system on one of its ships.
Short light bursts turn columns of air into energy conduits.
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Navy official: Pings not thought to be from Flight 370's black boxes
The four acoustic pings at the center of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 for the past seven weeks are no longer believed to have come from the plane's black boxes, a U.S. Navy official told CNN. The acknowledgment came Wednesday as searchers wrapped up the first phase of their effort, having scanned 329 square miles of southern Indian Ocean floor without finding any wreckage from the Boeing 777-200.
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Judge Gives Deployed Sailor Ultimatum: Appear In Court Or Lose Your Daughter
A Michigan judge has issued an impossible order to a deployed sailor: Appear in court Monday or face arrest and the possibility of losing custody of his 6-year-old daughter, ABC News reports. Matthew Hindes is currently serving on the USS Michigan under the Pacific Ocean, so there is no way he can appear in court. “He’s protecting the rights of others, but who is protecting his rights?” Hindes' wife Benita-Lynn told CBS Local.
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What It Felt Like to Test the First Submarine Nuclear Reactor
In the middle of last century, out in southern Idaho, amid the sagebrush and the steppes, the Navy kept a secret site. In that place—dry and arid, far from the sea and very much unlike it—scientists and engineers simulated a nuclear-powered submarine.
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Meet the ‘Highly Decorated’ Navy SEAL Who Put Three Bullets in Osama bin Laden’s Forehead
Rob O’Neill has been identified as the “highly decorated” Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden dead during the famous 2011 special forces operation in Pakistan, according to the Daily Mail. O’Neill’s identity has been revealed ahead of an interview with Fox News set to air later this month, in which he is expected to explain why he is giving up his anonymity.
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This Is the Navy SEAL's Shadowy New Multi-Mission Stealth Speedboat
The Pacific NW has become a proving ground for advanced small-scale combat vessels, ranging from semi-submersible stealth boats, to updated versions of the classic patrol boat. And now, the Combat Craft Medium Mark One (CCM Mk1), shown in the exclusive photo above, has made an appearance on the mighty Columbia River.
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Navy: New Laser Weapon Works, Ready for Action
The U.S. Navy says its new laser weapon works and it will use it if it has to.
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US Navy will field 100 kilowatt or stronger lasers and ten shot per minute railguns by 2020
The US Navy is pursuing a multi-pronged approach to fielding energy weapons by the end of the decade, with the hopes of upgrading its 30 kilowatt laser gun to 100 kw or more, and giving its electromagnetic railgun a higher repetition rate. Rear Adm. Bryant Fuller, chief engineer at Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), said in a panel presentation at the Directed Energy Summit, hosted by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and Booz Allen Hamilton, that both follow-on technologies...
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30th July 1945 - USS Indianapolis torpedoed
The USS Indianapolis is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sinks within minutes in shark-infested waters. Only 317 of the 1,196 men on board survived.
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3rd August 1958 - Nautilus travels under North Pole
The U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole. The world’s first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus dived at Point Barrow, Alaska, and traveled nearly 1,000 miles under the Arctic ice cap to reach the top of the world.
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Navy to arm some military personnel off bases
The U.S. Navy is arming some of its personnel at reserve centers in order to protect them after last month's shooting at Chattanooga recruiting centers that killed four Marines and one sailor.
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7 unbelievable genetic accidents
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US Navy limits 'whale-harming' sonar in Pacific
The US Navy has agreed to limit its use of sonar that may inadvertently harm whales and dolphins in waters near Hawaii and California. A federal judge in Honolulu signed the deal between the Navy and environmental groups on Monday. It restricts or bans the use of mid-frequency active sonar and explosives used in training exercises. Campaigners say that sonar disrupts the feeding of marine mammals, and can even cause deafness or death.
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Seeing stars, again: Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation
The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo 12 was disabled by lightning, the techniques of celestial navigation.
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Awesome Soviet Ekranoplan Aircraft Carrier Project
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'We got pizza and wings': US and Chinese warships talk turkey in South China Sea
As soon as the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen breached 12-nautical-mile territorial limits around one of China’s man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea last week, a Chinese warship shadowing its movements began demanding answers. “Hey, you are in Chinese waters. What is your intention?” was the first question that came, Commander Robert Francis, commanding officer of the Lassen, said on Thursday.
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to avoid embarrassment
When Japanese civilians learned their navy had bombed the US fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, they were jubilant. For years, people had suffered under austerity brought on by US sanctions and the country’s mobilization for war. The mood quickly changed. Pundits have long puzzled over why Japan, embroiled in an unwinnable war in China, attacked a country that supplied most of its oil and had an economy 70 times its own.
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Is the US Navy building ships that can’t weather rough seas?
The Navy’s newest class of transport ships is currently undergoing maintenance to make the vessels seaworthy, after it was found that design compromises led to weakened hulls susceptible to damage by waves. By Ben Thompson.
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Aircraft Testing May Have Caused Rattling Sonic Boom
Naval aircraft testing over the Atlantic Ocean created the sonic booms that caused rumbles and house-shaking that could be felt from the southern Jersey Shore to Long Island and the Connecticut coast and prompted thousands of tweets and 911 calls from residents thinking they were feeling the tremors of an earthquake. Officials with the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland said they were conducting testing of F-35C fighter jet over the Atlantic...
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This Navy SEAL shielded a hostage from the Taliban. Now he’ll get the Medal of Honor.
After more than four hours of moving across the rocky, hill-studded terrain of eastern Afghanistan, Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward C. Byers and other commandos from the Navy’s elite SEAL Team Six were within 100 feet of their objective: an American aid worker held hostage by the Taliban. It was Dec. 8, 2012, and three days earlier, a doctor, Dilip Joseph, and his interpreter and his driver had been captured by the Taliban while returning from...
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