The Raytheon AGM-65 Maverick The Raytheon AGM-65 Maverick is a family of precision guided weapons proven in action in Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom. Of 5,300 Mavericks launched in Desert […]

The AGM-119B Kongsberg Penguin Slated for the RAN’s ill-fated Kaman SH-2G Seasprite helicopters, and fitted with an Australian-manufactured warhead, the Penguin is a 1960s-era remarkably durable “shoot-and-scoot” high subsonic sea […]

Operation Strangle: Naval aviation in Korea. by Fred LanePaper presented at the Aviation Historical Society of Australia, Sydney, 7 July 2004. To understand naval aviation in the Korean War, it […]

The armoured flight deck controversy The British armoured flight decks and enclosed hangars, as seen in their Illustrious class aircraft carriers, were vastly superior to the American Essex class that […]

Fire in the Hangar Book review by Fred Lane Foster, W.F. (2001) Fire on the hangar deck: Ordeal of the Oriskany. Naval Institute Press: Annapolis. 175 pages including index, photographs […]

  The Loss of HMS Glorious Book review by John van Gelder Winton, J. (1999) Carrier Glorious: The life and death of an aircraft carrier. Cassell Military Paperbacks: London. $16.95. […]

Origins of the Angled Deck by Digger Bourke The sketch of the proposed US Navy flush deck super carrier in the Naval Officers Club Newsletter 59 of l December, 2004, revived […]