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US Fleet Forces Sets Sortie Condition Alpha, Ships Getting Underway
A GOES-13 infrared satellite image of Hurricane Sandy provided by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Monterey, Calif., shows the storm at approximately 7:00 a.m. EST in the Atlantic Ocean....
View ArticleThe Department of Defense Prepares for Hurricane Sandy
At the direction of Secretary Panetta, the Department of Defense is taking aggressive steps to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and State authorities as Hurricane Sandy moves...
View Article61,000 National Guard troops prep for Hurricane Sandy
By Steve Marshall and Air Force Tech. Sgt. John Orrell National Guard BureauARLINGTON, Va. – National Guard members and residents along the East Coast prepared today for Hurricane Sandy, which...
View ArticleExercise Global Thunder HF Traffic
Exercise Global Thunder is U.S. Strategic Command's annual field training and battle staff exercise, designed to exercise all mission areas with primary emphasis on nuclear command and control. Global...
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HMS Bounty Lost at Sea Update
One of two missing crew members from the replica tall ship HMS Bounty has been recovered hours after the US coastguard rescued 14 of her colleagues following a decision to abandon the vessel in the...
View ArticleMcGuire continues recovery efforts, FEMA base of operations
by 2nd Lt. Alexis McGee Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Public AffairsJOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. (AFNS) -- Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst personnel are continuing with recovery efforts...
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Enterprise Ends 51-Year Career at Sea
Article courtesy of Military.com| by Richard SiskThe aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) returned to homeport at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., for the last time Sunday under its own power, ending a...
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Russian Sub Skirts Coast - Russian attack sub detected near East Coast
Story byBill Gertz on the Washington Free Beacon websiteA Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine cruised within 200 miles of the East Coast recently in the latest sign Russia is continuing to flex...
View ArticleNuclear treaty monitoring aircraft visits Patrick AFB
by Susan A. Romano AFTAC Public AffairsPATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Special equipment operators from the Air Force Technical Applications Center's Detachment 1 visited Oct. 25 and invited base...
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China submarines to soon carry nukes, draft U.S. report says
A Pair of Type-094 Jin-Class SubmarinesBy Jim Wolf, Reuters Washington, D.C.(Reuters) - China appears to be within two years of deploying submarine-launched nuclear weapons, adding a new leg to its...
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Analysts keep close eye on China's mystery space plane
A close-up of China's robotic Shenlong space plane prototype tucked beneath a Chinese H-6 bomber for glide testing in December 2007. (Source Chinese Internet)Story By Leonard David, Space.comAs the...
View ArticleVigilant Guard exercise ends as "successful mission"
By Cpl. Clay Beyersdorfer Missouri National GuardJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri National Guard's Vigilant Guard training exercise concluded Wednesday, after a five day period that was a response to...
View ArticleHeavy Airlift Wing is fully operational
TALLINN, Estonia (AFNS) -- Col. Keith P. Boone, Strategic Airlift Capability Heavy Airlift Wing commander, declared the multinational wing has achieved a full operational capability status.In a...
View ArticleChinese Diplo Comms?
Eddy Waters on the UDXF newsgroup passed along the following intercepts a couple of days ago. Does anyone knowfor sure who in China originates these transmissions?10265.97 :China 4+4 75/3000 LSB four...
View ArticleArmy FM 11-490-7
Dear Milcom MP Readers,I'm looking for an electronic copy of Army FM 11-490-7. If you have one that you can share, please contact me at the address in the header of this blog.I appreciate your help in...
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Israeli HF Military Frequencies
Given the current hostilities over in the Middle East (Israel and the Gaza Strip), here are a few of the recently monitored HF Israeli military frequencies.4XZ Israeli Navy Haifa2253.0 4XZ: Israeli...
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U.S. warships moving to monitor North Korea's planned rocket launch
A satellite image showing North Korea's Dongchang-ri missile launch sitePhoto: EPA/YONHAP/GOOGLEReuters is reporting that the United States is shifting warships into position to track and possibly...
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Air Force sends mystery mini-shuttle back to space
A top-secret X-37B mini-space shuttle has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.The Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft Tuesday aboard an Atlas V rocket with an on-time liftoff at 1:03 p.m....
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North Korea Launches a Unha-3 and what into orbit?
North Korea successfully launched a Unha-3 three stage rocket on Wednesday from its west coast launch site. The rocket, which North Korea says put a weather satellite into orbit, has been labeled by...
View ArticleUS UHF Milsat Pirate Busted
Many of us who monitoring Milsat activity are well aware of the hijinks involving Brazilian (aka Portuguese speaking) pirates transmitting over our UHF milsats. Well one another one of them has been...
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