Five Good Reads

While we are on the subject of naval gunfire support, the Armorer has his own moment of Zen with the photography. His insights to naval matters in general towards the end of that post are on target.

There are too many reasons for me to count why I loved this post. Office of Naval Intelligence, the Spanish-American War, Open Source Intelligence in wartime, translations and citations from an edition of Proceedings likely older than any reader here, and a conclusion that notes the more things change, the more things really don't. Kent's Imperative has the must read of the week.

This is actually good video of the recent Russian Sineva missile launch.

Molten Eagle is discussing the Taiwan arms deal the US recently made, as only ME can. I'm not surprised by the absence of submarines, building conventional submarines for Taiwan is the never ending mythical defense industry adventure. Will never happen.

The French are playing with robots in the Mediterranean Sea. I don't think this article is accurate though, didn't the Fire Scout land on the USS Denver (LPD 9) in January 2006?