Patrick Havens on September 4th, 2007

For decades sub technology has been one of the most highly sought and most closely guarded of US Military secrets.
Whenever the submarine is brought into the graving dock for service, one of the first things that they do is cover the propeller with a tarp so that it can not be photographed. Evidently, if [...]

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NOTE: This video is uncensored footage that is rated for adults. It is graphic in nature and blah blah blah, you’ve been warned.
I’ve been commenting about North Korea and how its still a actively hostile war zone. It seems that even though they are in Truce Talks (for over 50 years now), [...]

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Ok, we really hadn’t heard from North Korea lately. Since they backed down from threatening to “test missiles” at Japan and Western United States, and also creating cock roach makers (ie. nuclear weapons leaving only cock roaches alive), they hasn’t been a peep. Afraid to lose his precious bling, The Ill man has [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 5th, 2007

A satellite image of China’s new nuclear ballistic missile submarine is available on the Google Earth Internet site.
Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), spotted the images, photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006.
One photo is of what is apparently the new Type 094 [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 19th, 2007

Here is a video of a water helicopter extraction of what looks to be a Seal Team. For as long as it was, I wouldn’t of minded a bit more length…
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Patrick Havens on May 23rd, 2007

Sixty-five years after it vanished, a Japanese midget submarine that sank an Australian warship in Sydney harbour during the Second World War has yielded up its secrets.The two-man submarine was one of three midgets that sneaked into the harbour in May 1942 to attack the American battle cruiser USS Chicago. Two were damaged and scuttled [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 8th, 2007

Cool but weird Ship. I’d hate to be the one to have to go through cleaning up and maintaining it.
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Patrick Havens on March 6th, 2007

If repossessing a used Chevrolet can be tricky, consider retrieving the Aztec Express, a 700-foot cargo ship under guard in Haiti as civil unrest spread through the country.Only a few repo men possess the guile and resourcefulness for such a job. One of them is F. Max Hardberger, of Lacombe, La. Since 1991, the 58-year-old [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 28th, 2007

Three Somali police speedboats and a U.S. military vessel were headed Monday toward a U.N.-chartered cargo ship hijacked by pirates, a senior police official said.
Somali pirates boarded the MV Rozen — which had just delivered a total of 1,800 metric tons (1,884 US tons) of food aid in northern Somalia — on Sunday, taking the [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 19th, 2007

The strangest vessel made its formal premiere Thursday on San Francisco Bay, and it was a sight to see: It looked like a spider, wiggled over the waves like a porpoise, and was fast as the wind.
It is named the Proteus, after a Greek god of the sea, and is the first of what might [...]

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