The Mk14 Mod 1 was assembled at NSWC Crane in 2006, around 500 were assembled. The shorter barrel and the general configuration of parts and accessories suggest that this may be a surplus rifle transferred by the US. A recent sighting of a Mk14 Mod 1 EBR (via Tysk) Most recently, on 1...
0938: With no more survivors in sight, all three destroyers are still hunting and occasionally depth charging the submarine. After this, MOMI and HINOKI leave the scene and SHIGURE remains still hunting REDFISH. The two-Matsu class proceed to Takao to off-load survivors. (MOMI rescued senior ...
It is unknown how long these vehicles were in service for, although they appear to have been used at least until after WWII. It seems as though they were, at some point (believed to be after 1937), fitted with a pair of grills at the front of the engine compartment (cut into the ...
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En route the weather would clear, and reveal a flight of roughly 50 Do 217 night fighters, pressed into service as daylight bomber destroyers, and dozens of Fw 190’s which were preparing to attack a nearby formation of USAAF bombers. The pair would decide to attack, in order to disrupt ...
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Churchill wrote FDR requesting a “loan” of 50 American naval destroyers, but Roosevelt knew that Congress would never approve it. So FDR’s attorney general came up with a creative legal workaround that allowed the president to send the ships using an executive action. In what’s known as...
While the Eisenhower appears to largely stay at a distance, destroyers like the Laboon spend six out of seven days near or off Yemen — the “weapons engagement zone,” in Navy speak. Sea combat in the Mideast remains risky, something the Navy knows well. In 1987, an Iraqi fighter jet ...
U.S. Navy destroyers target Houthi Red Sea missiles and drones For months, the U.S. Navy has operated out of the Red Sea at a pace not seen in decades, as the military responds to Houthi targeting of commercial ships. Norah 'O'Donnell reports. Jun 23 U.S. Navy response to Hout...
Roosevelt's compromise for helping Britain as he could not sell Britain US destroyers without defying the Neutrality Act; Britain received 50 old but still serviceable US destroyers in exchange for giving the US the right to build military bases on British Islands in the Caribbean. Battle of Brit...