Friday Film: "Talos Missile Handling"

I suggest to you that an underway replenishment with a Talos ship was a huge pain in the posterior.

UPDATE: Good discussion of underway replenishment of these things at USS Oklahoma City website, from which I "borrowed" the adjacent photo

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 1 to 29 June 2022

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Breaking foreign flagged ships seized by pro-Russian forces in Ukrainian port reported here

Russian-backed separatists have seized two foreign-flagged ships in the eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, saying they are now "state property", in the first such moves against commercial shipping, letters seen by Reuters showed.

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The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, via its foreign ministry, informed two shipping companies that their vessels were the subject of "forcible appropriation of movable property with forced conversion into state property”, without any compensation to the owners, according to two separate letters.

"Signing of the Declaration" from You Are There

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 25 May to 22 June 2022

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On Midrats 26 June 2022 - Episode 626: Turning the Tables on China with Brent Sadler

Please join us at 5pm EDT on 26 June 2022 for Midrats Episode 626: Turning the Tables on China with Brent Sadler

While everyone is distracted by the Russo-Ukrainian War, the People’s Republic of China continues to work to solidify her ability to control the South China Sea and to bring more nations in to her orbit.

Though not a cold war, it is a struggle for presence, influence, and setting the conditions for advantage should conflict come.

The United States and her Navy are not required to be in a passive posture, allowing China to shape the environment without pushback.

This episode of Midrats will focus on American options and actions we can take to blunt Chinese influence and to prevent her from setting up the Western Pacific to her advantage relative to the United States and her friends and allies.

Our guest for the full hour to discuss this and more will be Brent Sadler, a senior fellow for maritime security and advanced naval technology at The Heritage Foundation.

If you do miss the show live, you can pick up this episode and others and add Midrats to your podcast list simply by going to you use Apple Podcasts here. Or on Spreaker. Or on Spotify.

Saturday Is Old Radio Day- TV version "Victory at Sea - The Battle for Leyte Gulf"

The discovery of the resting place of the USS Samuel B. Robert (DE-413) prompts a special look at the series of fights that constitute the Battle for Leyte Gulf. Background here.

Friday Film: "Midway and Wake" (1948)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 18 May to 15 June 2022

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On Fathers Day

Saturday Is Old Radio Day - "You Can't Take It with You" (1939) Lux Radio Theater

"How to Cure Inflation" - Milton Friedman (1980)

Friday Film on Saturday- Making Gasoline

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 11 May to 8 June 2022

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day - Suspense "Murder Aboard the Alphabet" (1947)

Friday Film: Submarine History "No Deck to Strut Upon" (1971)

Midrats Episode 625: Combined Amphibious Operations in the Pacific

Please join us for Midrats Episode 625: Combined Amphibious Operations in the Indo-Pacific. We  recorded the show due to our guest's schedule.

Along the spectrum from peacetime exercises to wartime combined operations, successfully integrating multinational forces is not a pick-up game. To do it right requires leaders and institutions years of practice, trust, and demonstrated ability.

This is true of all military operations, but especially true when moving forces ashore during amphibious operations.

In our constellation of allies, partners and friends along the shores of the Indo-Pacific theater, since 2015 the United States Marine Forces Pacific has led the multi-national Pacific Amphibious Leaders Symposium.

We dive into not just the symposium itself to the broader topic of combined amphibious operations in the Indo-Pacific with our guest, Major Evan “Zach” Ota, USMC from the International Affairs Branch, U. S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific.

You can listen to the show on Spreaker or Spotify or Apple Podcasts or your favorite source.

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 4 May to 1 June 2022

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Battle of Midway Begins - 80 Years Ago - One of the Greatest Sea Battles

Yes, the sound quality is a little rough, but the images in this version are the clearest I have seen.

Update - less clear, but smoother:

Saturday Is Old Radio Day - D-Day June 6, 1944 - Initial Reports

Friday Film: "Communication Instructions for Reporting Enemy Sightings" (1944)