USN Carrier Evolution VIII: Early Attack Carriers Eighth article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, November 1962, pp 44-48. “We have hit the Japanese […]

USN Carrier Evolution IX: Escort Carriers Ninth article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, December 1962 pp 49-53. “The story of the escort aircraft […]

USN Carrier Evolution X: The battle carriers Tenth article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, January 1963, pp 54-56. The life of the Midway […]

USN Carrier Evolution XI: The Japanese carriers in WW II Eleventh article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, April 1963. Japan is beaten, and […]

Anti-ship missiles HMS Sheffield (above) on fire after her fatal Exocet hit, 4 May 1982, off the Falklands and USS Stark on fire and listing after taking two Exocet AM-39s […]

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 […]