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Norfolk Virginian-Pilot October 14, 2009 First In Its Class Warship To Deploy Two Years Early By Lauren King, The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK -- The littoral combat ship Freedom will deploy about two years ahead of its scheduled maiden voyage and before it visits its San Diego home port. The first in i...

San Francisco Chronicle October 14, 2009 Pg. 6 Pentagon Puts New Mega-Bomb On Fast Track By Anne Gearan, Associated Press Washington -- The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced c...

Not sure there is much armor at all...

http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_5-54_mk45.htm

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_displ ... d=100&ct=2

USS Pueblo was in international waters at the time of the attack. These ships aren’t sent anywhere that any unarmed ship from any nation can’t go. There is really no reason to have special crews of all volunteers or anything else. What the NKs did was out-right aggression. An act of war if you will.

That step had already been taken almost four decades earlier...she was called HMS Invincible. Paul From my view point, Invincible was the evolutionary step up from Armored Cruisers, where as Alaska’s branch on the family tree started with the Arethusa class through the Light/Heavy Treaty Cruisers t...

Washington Post October 13, 2009 Pg. 12 North Korea Fires 5 Missiles Coastal Navigation Ban Also Declared By Blaine Harden, Washington Post Foreign Service SEOUL, Oct. 12 -- North Korea fired five short-range missiles into the sea Monday and declared a navigation ban in waters off its eastern and w...

Mideast Stars and Stripes October 10, 2009 NATO Commander Sees Arctic Seabed As Cooperative Zone By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes STUTTGART, Germany — It’s been two years since Russian submarines plunged the depths to plant a flag beneath the North Pole, symbolically laying claim to vast oil and...

Newport News Daily Press October 10, 2009 Congress To Navy: Don't Delay Carrier Construction Until Analysis By Peter Frost Federal lawmakers will require the Navy to complete a detailed risk assessment of slowing aircraft carrier construction to produce a new ship every five years instead of four b...

Seattle Times October 9, 2009 Pg. 1 Will Women Serve On Navy Subs? Rule Change favored by Joint Chiefs head. But at Kitsap base, some worry about sex, wives and toilet space By Christine Clarridge, Seattle Times staff reporter BANGOR, Kitsap County — Amy Augustine knows there are many wives and gir...

Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger October 10, 2009 Navy Ship To Bear Evers' Name Honor announced for slain civil rights activist By Elizabeth Crisp Nearly two decades ago, when Ray Mabus was Mississippi's governor, he promised Myrlie Evers-Williams that someday he would find a way to honor her late husba...

Another one to add to the list - thanks!

Thank you gents for the comments.

Ah – my bad here. My question was poorly written. It should have ask…

"What was the receive FREQUENCY range of the FuMB?"

Not range DISTANCE but range in RECEIVE FREQ capability – once again, my bad.

Interesting question – was thrashing around (futilely as it turned out) to find some sources for this. Questions; What was the receive range of the FuMB? What is the transmit freq of the DoY radar? If they don’t overlap, then the FuMB wouldn’t have detected DoY's radar emissions. And if the FuMB cou...

LOL! So what about your namesake? CB-1...Cruiser of Battle or "Large Cruiser"? Did the USN simply avoid calling a leg a leg? Paul Under the advisement of expert legal advice, I will not take a stance on this issue. To call CB-1 a ‘large cruiser’ or a ‘battlecruiser’ would offend either / ...