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> Does Regan have a carrier named after him?

Yes, the newest Nimitz is USS Ronald Reagan , CVN 76

-mis

Here is a link describing wht the Jimmy Carter is getting- basically a bigger SEAL delivery system, probably with the ability to drop a carried bathysphere or other goodies.

The Jimmy Carter is too high value a ship to just keep out on fiber patrol- independent of her spec-ops function she can pretty much conventionally destroy most navies by herself thanks to that 50-weapon loadout, being quieter running at speed then the Los Angeles subs at dock, and that wide-aperture sonar. So making her a $3 billion dollar satellite feed doesn't make sense.

Therefore they must be planning to hook into the fiber-optic network, and spool off their own fiber line to a discrete uplink several hundred miles away. The upgrade must be to allow for all that equipment.

Former President Carter visited several submarines, including SSN 688, the Los Angeles . He was a nuclear power qualified submarine officer during his service in the Navy.

Given that history, I hardly think he was insulted when the boat was named after him.

Lest we forget that China built a fiber communication network in afghanistan. That, with the latest intelligence debacle, well
IMHO, if tapping any communication medium will assist in the thwarting of terrorist activity, well we need something.
Noone would have considered this applicable 3 years ago.
Usually, with that size of budget, there are definately some dark ops. No wonder we (as in the U.S.) are developing methods to
Xray people as they wander through airports.

Someone to ask about the plans and what the impact will be is Secretary of the Navy Gordon England.
Understandably, I am sure he would not delve into the detailed tie-in and the way the Govt. is using 9/11 to move projects like thas ahead.
Crossing's Creditors' Committee press releases show how critical it was for the Govt to bail them out. With clients like
K.B. toys to sell their pipe to, it is amazing that they are not rolling in cash.
Stratgetically, there is concern because"For a very low price, someone is going to acquire a set of undersea fiber routes that crisscross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and connect over 20 nations and perhaps resell or lease the network at a handsome profit to another party that could have its very own undersea communications network and training ground. The bankruptcy court had set April 23 as the deadline to receive proposals to take over the now-bankrupt GX.

7 of the last 10 carriers are named after presidents.

Submarines are named after states or cities.

It sounds to me like the original point stands, and your pathetic political statement is discarded.

7 of the last 10 carriers are named after presidents.

Submarines are named after states or cities.

It sounds to me like the original point stands, and your pathetic political statement is discarded.

Oh jeez, I had to read the article to make sure this wasn't some sort of Simpsons joke. I know, I know, Jimmy was a Nuke Engineer on a Sub before he drove the country into double digit inflation and created the misery index while wearing a sweater. But I was shocked that he already had a military ship named after him. Anyone know what the rules are for that? Is it a military thing or a Congressional?

I'm not sure if they're still following any specific naming rules like they used to, but if you see this puppy in or around your nation you might want to check those undersea lines. :-)

For some information about this, see here, here and here.

Also, it's not just "several million dollars" . . . it's nearly $7 billion.

This is a U.S. Department of Defense Computer System.

This computer system, including all related equipment, networks and network devices (specifically including Internet access), are provided only for authorized U.S. Government use. DoD computer systems may be monitored for all lawful purposes, including to ensure that their use is authorized, for management of the system, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures, survivability and operational security. Monitoring includes active attacks by authorized DoD entities to test or verify the security of this system. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied and used for authorized purposes. All information, including personal information, placed on or sent over this system may be monitored. Use of this DoD computer system, authorized or unauthorized, constitutes consent to monitoring of this system. Unauthorized use may subject you to criminal prosecution. Evidence of unauthorized use collected during monitoring may be used for administrative, criminal or adverse action. Use of this system constitutes consent to monitoring for these purposes.

Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, prevent or limit access, or otherwise violate the intended purpose of this web site are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.

This notice is embedded into X-45 and all UCAV ROMs. All X-45s are distributed with three platoons of lawyers. This and the DMCA should do.

1) Promote paranoid skepticism and distrust in new ideas, creating biases against any thinking which goes against the conventional grain. This effectively puts a huge damper on new research, especially when such a big player is 'suspect'.

2) Make your performance loud and obnoxious enough, and even a working, viable technology can be disbelieved right out of existence. (See note at bottom.)

3) Promote the cultural acceptence of guilt-based systems of analysis. What are they going to do? Put people in jail for publishing (possibly) false readings? The ultimate farce! It's science for goodness sake! It's about exploration and discovery. It's supposed to be fun!

4) Fear, Fear, Fear! If the flawless surface of Lucent Tech is smeared, investors ditch, contracts walk, and new talent looks elsewhere. --And ultimately, the fear of thinning pocket books looms in the small minds of the board of directors. As they say, Money is the root of all evil.

-Fantastic Lad

The "How to write Unmaintainable Code" article on the web is an excellent resource for documentation - much as "Web Pages that Suck is an excellent guide for web designers.

Your organisation - even if it's just 1 man and a dog - should already have a style guide in place. Don't have one? Well then it's easy, there are plenty of good ones on the Net, for Java, C++,Lisp,MATLAB, Ada and many others.

A good list of C and C++ styleguides is here. Just pick one. The important thing is to make sure everyone uses the same one, exactly which one is more a religious issue than anything else. That's an over-simplification, some really are better than others, but at least all the ones on that list have been tried, tested and peer-reviewed.

As for my own opinions, a few issues

• Make variable names meaningful. If you do this, then most of your comments will be metadata, e.g why you did something, and who and when a change was made, rather than what is being done. If you're doing something tricky or unusual, then having a pseudocode preamble can be worthwhile.
• If you can, try to use a relatively high-level language like Ada rather than a low-level one like C. But this is almost never under your control. The Javadoc auto-documentation tool is one of the biggest plusses that Java has over other languages - so if programming in Java, Use It!!

I mean sure, technology has improved, but not that much. With the example of the cruise missile, you really want a rocket because you need it to be fast moving and you need it to fly quite low to the ground (easier said than done).

While I agree about the ICBM, I suspect you are thinking way to high-tech about the cruise missiles. As an alternative to a ground hugging, rocket powered, flying bomb - how about a homebuilt with a transponder and a valid flight plan filed.

You really have to be watching the radar to catch these things when you are trying to shoot them down in wartime conditions because they are low to the ground. As for rocket powered, even our Tomahawks use a turbo-fan engine for flight (though a booster rocket for takeoff). These things are subsonic (550mph if you believe the listed spec) relying on stealth rather than speed. Compare that to the German V1 at 401mph.

I believe a cruise missile is within the skill set of the hobbyist. Course, I've built a composite aircraft and am restoring a 1948 Playboy (aircraft) today... so my view is a bit twisted.

I find it interesting that there are only two days a year when the sun isn't above or below the horizon for the whole day at the north pole.

Go here to see for yourself (input a latitude of 90-00 North into Form B).

The Axis 2400 video server also uses embedded Linux, not sure which flavor.

We have an older 2400 and when I recently upgraded the firmware they had switch from whatever they were using to Linux. I was impressed. In addition to adding a number of new features, including a doubling of the frame rate, I got a command line on the server!

The server is used to post images on a weather site here

First, I don't see all these supposive people dropping dead from RF over-exposure via cell phones. Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's one giant conspiracy. Right. Second, I think the person who has the most to worry about is the user. We're not talking second hand smoke here. The power at range just isn't significant to harm a 3rd party. Third, your worried about cellphones when you probably drive through a myriad of high intensity EM fields everyday!? Take a florecent light and walk under some high-tension power lines one of these days. Or put one in a mirowave. I'm sure you'll find the effect enlightening. Funny how a cellphone doesn't produce either of these effects, but it just happens to be everybodies whipping-boy of the day. I love it.

And you actually want to jam cell phone calls? I hope those people get their asses sued off the day somebody tries to phone in a life threatening injury but can't. If you have the right to jam my phone, I must have the right to slash your tires to keep from annoying me. I can't wait until they make jamming triangulators so they can find you, beat your sorry butt down and break your little toy. heh.

Ironically, I'm betting your little jammer will produce more EM radiation than a cellphone. I used to work on EA-6b Prowlers in the navy and you're going to have a tough time jamming without generating an equal or greater amount of power than the source. That, and the greater the range, the more power it'll require. Have fun irradiating yourself, chumps.

Osama Bin Laden could only wish. There are lies, damn lies, and marketing generated statistics. If there was such a thing as an "employment expert", I think they would have, by now, figured out the whole unemployment problem and solved it. Three hundred million bucks in lost productivity? The 9/11 atrocity is estimated at 1.2 billion dollars in economic damage to US worker productivity, not counting lost jobs, from what I have read. To say that Star Wars is going to do 1/4 of the economic damage as September 11th might send Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge's color coded domestic terrorism scale to RED causing him to ban all showings before 6pm local time.

Write this one off to cheap and easy journalism recycling a press release. If this is true, however, I expect to see George Lucas at Gitmo in the next month.

I suspect that in the event of Chinese guided missiles being fired at targets in northern Europe, most people will have other things to worry about than their website. Certainly, bandwidth and hosting costs would be expected to rise!

to assess and characterize aircraft system survivability to High Frequency (HF) electromagnetic (EM) transient threats. These threats include the HF Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and other ultra wideband (UWB) transient environments. The Navy recognizes this need and is taking the initiative to investigate the feasibility of a realistic, low-cost test methodology to assess, characterize and validate aircraft survivability to threats that may range from a few hundred Kilohertz to the low Gigahertz region. The proposed Navy technical approach is based on established system-level RDTE technology using existing high frequency test laboratories and equipment. The approach will be validated using a combination of High Level Pulse (HLP) testing at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Patuxent Rivers Horizontally Polarized Dipole (HPD) and Vertically Polarized Dipole (VPD) free-field EMP simulators, electromagnetic effects generating equipment to simulate the carrier shipboard environment free-field low-level continuous wave (LLCW) testing to acquire the stress response data, and wideband direct-drive tests to characterize system strength. The Navy is developing a new wideband (up to 1 GHz) direct-drive technology and waveform combination techniques using stress response data to develop worst-case stress envelopes to be used during the direct-drive tests.

Fiber optic transmission systems, because of their extraordinary channel capacity and decreasing cost, are the preferred terrestrial transmission media of the nation's long distance, inter-city telecommunications infrastructure. Since the commercial telephone network forms the foundation for emergency communication in the event of a national crisis or emergency, additional requirements are placed on the fibers and components of this system. The network must remain operational in the face of such threats as loss of commercial power, disruption by natural causes, violation of physical security, and exposure to the effects of nuclear weapons, including electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and ionizing radiation from the delayed gamma component and fallout. The most stressing environment for the fiber consists of fallout subsequent to a nuclear attack since the long lengths of fiber can be potentially exposed to high total doses. The susceptibility of some types of commercially available fiber optic cable to optical darkening (and hence increased signal loss and bit error rate) from exposure to ionizing radiation raises serious questions about the survivability of such systems in the reconstitution phase of a nuclear conflict.

For those of you interested in doing something similar with your car, consider getting yourself an amateur radio license, buy some hardware, and have your car broadcast its position. Do a net search for "APRS car" for information, or check out http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html. I might recommend the Kenwood TH-D7AG radio, which has most all of the functionality you would want in a hand-held package.

I remember going to the Official Time Clock of the US Naval Observatory and seeing the time as "00:01 01/01/19100".

Ah yes, The Drawing of the Line. "This 'day' you speak of, at what second does it turn into 'night' exactly?"

Well, that's easy. It becomes night at sunset, of course. Or, as dictionary.com puts it, "the period between sunset and sunrise, especially the hours of darkness."

When's sunset? Well, that depends on your locale and the time of year...it's a bit complicated to figure out in your head, so there is a bit of fudging for the sake of convenience. But, for the real answer, the US Naval Observatory can help you out on it.

Tesla's experiments into wireless energy transmission would have spelled the end of the energy industry as we know it, as well as the end of conventional radio and television transmission as a limited resource doled out by the FCC, as we have seen all of this become. His Autobiography is very interesting albiet very quirky. It is also interesting to note that over half of his patents and papers remain classified by the U.S. government to this day. Try getting them through the FOIA act, I dare you. It would actually be an interesting experiment. You can read about alleged uses and abuses of Tesla's wireless technology in the book about Project HAARP, entitled Angels Don't Play This haarp: Advances in Tesla Technology which puts forth evidence that Project HAARP's goals aren't as benign as they would like you to think, and that the weather modification aspect of the techology has been tried extensively for less than good purposes. Food for thought and grounds for further research. (http://www.haarp.net/ HAARP book home page.)

The CERIAS program at Purdue University is one of the recipients of this NSF grant. Other recipients include: CMU, and the Naval Post Graduate School. But this isn't necessarily a slam dunk, you still have to be admitted to the program at the school you apply to.

A free education is nothing to sneeze at. Talk to a current grad student who is either teaching a class or picking up his prof's dry cleaning to pay the bills and they will tell you how they wish they could find a funding source like this.

The institutions that received this grant do cutting-edge research in security that will influence the field for years to come. Heck, I'd do it just to go and study w/Spaf.

The broadcasts you mention can be found here, but what you failed mention is that ever since Castro was put into power in Cuba, he has been transmitting Cuban radio on our frequencies, so anyone far enough south has to use the transmissions from Canada... :)

So this is just a very low-powered ad hoc wireless network, then. *yawn*

They're talking about creating them to power themselves from their environment, and give examples of generating power from vibrations, or from small solar cells... which makes me wonder whether it would be possible to create picoreadio devices which power themselves from the ambient radiowaves. I know some British scientist built a radio which is entirely self-powered in this way, and it seems to me to be a great way of powering things like these (if their power requirement is low enough). Anyway...

For those who don't know, an ad hoc wireless network is a wireless network like IEEE 802.11, but entirely self configurating, etc... etc... They're pretty neat things, but there aren't any real implementations outside of the US military, so these guys will really have a first if they get picoradio done soon. They're based on such great acronym^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprotocols such as ZRP (Zone Routing Procol) or DSDV (Destination Sequenced Distance Vector) and DSR (Dynamic Source Routing).

There is currently an IETF working group (MANET) trying to develop some standards, but there's a lot of research to be done first, so it could be a while before you see anything. Once they do put something out in a few years time, it'll kick IEEE 802.11's ass. =)

If you want more info on adhoc networks, you can look at MANET's 'official' webpage here. That page is pretty useless though, so you should look at their unofficial website here. It has links to a lot of great resources.

Ad hoc wireless networks are cool.

First of all, all that stuff is horribly outdated.

DD(x) is the future of the Navy. The current fleet of battleships run a system called AEGIS which runs on top of HP-UX. NT has very limited use in non-tatical systems. You have to understand, the Navy has a _very_ strict QA and development process and systems don't actually get used tactically for almost 10 years it seems.

The future OS to run on DD(x) is up for grabs right now. MS federal systems has teamed up with the Blue Team so if they win, expect to see MS having a bigger role. That's not necessarily a bad thing though because the system is based on Java so not as many bad things can happen. Either way, with the thorough QA process, they should even be able to configure NT to be secure after 10 years.

I haven't looked at the patent application, but there's all sorts of prior art in this field. Most notably, APRS. I wouldn't write off interoperability so soon. Besides, the patent wouldn't make Garmin much money if they can't license it. It's not like there's much consumer demand for features that only one vendor has any hope of providing.

...or cold fusion and really they are just full of it....

What are you talking about? Check out this sunrise/sunset calculator to see how long the sun stays up. Surprise! It's almost 12 hours, depending where you are on the Earth.

Or even better, go to the Project Page itself.

Lol... funny you should say that :-

According to the US Navy :-

"In 1958 the Naval Observatory and Britain's National Physical Laboratory published the results of joint experiments that defined the relation between Atomic time and Ephemeris time. (An interesting scientific and philosophical question is whether the relationship between Atomic time and gravitational time remains constant.) Since 1967 the international definition of the second has been based on these joint experiments. Atomic time is kept synchronized with universal time by the addition or subtraction of a leap second whenever necessary."

According to the NPL :-

"It was Louis Essen's research into the physics of frequency generation and measurement that changed the way the world measures time. In the 1930s he worked on the first quartz oscillator-based clocks and by the 1950's he had devised a caesium atomic-beam tube which could be used as a clock. This led to a better definition of the second using the world's first atomic clock, built at NPL in 1955."

And the Canadians

"A method to replace astronomical observations was urgently sought. The atomic clock, first developed in Britain, was the solution. Scientists at the NRC made a Cesium atomic clock (Cs I) (660528), which went into operation in 1958."

What really gets my goat is that the editors of Slashdot are apparently unaware of the position of the U.S. Navy's Naval Ocean Systems Center in favor of cold fusion, and their long-suffering and pioneering work on the particular kind known as codeposition fusion:

http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pubs/t r/1696/tr1696.pdf

I have copied that tech report, along with a diagram you can use to do cold fusion on your desktop for less than US$500, in this directory:

http://www.bovik.org/codeposition

Please mod me up; I am posting as AC due to time pressures and a different browser in use at the moment. Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
James Salsman
james at bovik dot org

This reminds me of a friend I had at the US Naval Academy. As an Electrical Engineer he chose to work on a Rail Gun as his Senior Design Project.

About 3/4th of the way through the semester he came to my room raving about the "Break through" he had that day.

The next morning he went back to the lab only to find it completely cleaned out. All of his notes had been confiscated. He was told that the project was now classified "SECRET." As we, lowly midshipmen, only held "CONFIDENTIAL" clearances, he could no longer access his own work!

He got an "A" on the project.

screw you! I plan to upload and leave this rock for somewhere prettier in a few decades!

leap seconds are not inserted every year, but "as needed"

"Lasers could also be used as an additional weapon system to fighters, bombers, helicopter gunships and warships but this is unlikely for a decade."

I find this quite puzzling. One of the big threats to warships (i.e. aircraft carriers) today, is cruise missiles.
To defend against those, we use missiles and gatling guns today.
Wouldn't something like this be a ideal supplement to CIWS? Moving a mirror around, directing the laser beam, to hit a sea-skimming cruise missile, should be easier than hitting that missile with lots-of-flying-lead[tm].

that comes bundled with Win2K. Configure the service to start automatically (it's set for manual start by default), and use net time /setsntp to set the NTP server(s) you want to sync to.

You can select one machine to be the master server for your network -- set its NTP server to one on this list, and enable it as an NTP server (some registry setting I can't remember). Then set the other machines (via the net time /setsntp cmd) to use your time server.

I got my first good concept of a nanosecond when Adm. Grace Hopper showed a foot-long piece of copper wire. That's the distance electricty can travel in that time.

So, I'll provide an equivalent definition for the attosecond... 0.0003 nm. For comparison, a single silicon atom is 0.3333 nm in diameter.

...I think it has started to affect the introduction of leap seconds

Not likely. The proponent of this theory, Benjamin Fong Chao, a geophysicist at the Goddard Flight Center, estimates that dams have increased the earth's rotation by 8 millionths of a second over 24 hours in the last 40 years.

There were 22 leap seconds added in the 27 years before 1999. The Earth runs roughly 2 milliseconds per day behind a 24 hour atomic clock.

Remember that he who pays the bills calls the tune! When he decides to stop paying the bills, then should the government take over?

-AD

The BLU-82 Commando Vault (also known as the Daisy Cutter) is a 15,000 lb. thermobaric bomb, not "hyperbaric" as he calls it (although I suppose it makes sense in the way he uses it). And they certainly aren't dropped from unmanned planes. They are pushed out on skids from the back of Special Operations C-130s (or perhaps AC-130s).

For more on the Daisy Cutter and other thermobaric weapons, check the following links:

• Fuel air explosives
• In Afghanistan
• Psychological effect
• FAE animation
• Gulf War usage

Also notable: The bomb used in the beginning of Outbreak (1995) was a fuel air explosive similar to the Daisy Cutter.

According to this site, "a nominal [throughput] rate for a DVD is 3.5 Mbps." Since you can get close to 11Mbps from 802.11b, how exactly isn't enough bandwidth for MPEG streaming?

Uh, I don't think so or we're talking about some other Clementine probes...

"The Clementine Lunar Image Browser (CLIB) is available. Version 1.5 allows access to over 170,000 Clementine images and includes a new interface that allows the user to zoom in to any location on the moon. The full version, due in 1995, will serve all 1.8 million images as well as their associated data."

This makes me feel REALLY old, but the EML technology research has been going on for over 20 years. I recall the 1990 High School CX debate topic very well and spent most of the year debating EML launchers (prototyped on Sandia National Labs railgun). We spent the summer in the library in New Mexico visiting Sandia and UNM to research our cases. They were already launching coffee can-sized payloads at that time.

Some of the EML experiments from the late 80s and early 90s were visited at a 95 IEEE pulsed power conference: here. Of course, it's been a HOT topic since pre-85, when the first IEEE pulsed power conference was held.

We've been at the brink of maglev space launches for the alst 20 decades. Maybe it'll happen tomorrow. Probably not. There's basically no money in this sort of solution for defense contractors, so it generally languishes in congressional committees when it comes time to fund...

Oh well. It would be cheaper, cleaner, safer, and a whole helluva lot more fun at parties... but the same issues applied 20 years ago as today: it doesn't get funded b/c it's a public works-type solution to space. There's no money for Lockheed in something like that.

I've been evolving algorithms for a long time now, using finite state machines (FSM) which can be easily moved across architectures and programming languages. Quite often, an FSM evolves to exhibit surprising behavior -- and given the complexity of the machines, it is impractical to understand why the FSM acts as it does.

Note that I said "impractical" -- given time, I could follow the FSM's logic and discern it's "thinking" (and I have done so with simpler machines).

If you want real, concrete information about genetic algorithms and artificial life, I suggest visiting ALife.org or the U.S. Navy's GA Archive.

Shameless plug: For five years, I've been developing a free (no ads) web site, Complexity Central, devoted to evolutionary algorithms, artificial life, and emergent behavior. I've posted several Java applets that demonstrate genetic algorithms, cellular automata, flocking behavior, and related subjects.

This is part of my Coyote Gulch web site, which contains lots of articles, web links, bibliographies, and free code in C++, Java, and Fortran(!).

You know where we all can get free food, rent and tuition?

And you also get paid for it, too!!!

US Ship: Please divert your course 0.5 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

CND reply: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

US Ship: This is the Captain of a US Navy Ship. I say again, divert your course.

CND reply: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course!

US Ship: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS CORAL SEA*, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!!

CND reply: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

So what if the Navy denies that it's true, I still think it's hilarious... :)

1. "Stealth ships" are a blue-water navy idea.
   
   • Here, you're half right. But the technologies that arose from the development of Lockheed's Sea Shadow are being implemented into current designs, such as the DD-21 Land Attack Destroyer and the LPD-17 San Antonio Class Amphibious Ship, as seen by their sloping sides and angled exhaust stacks.
     
   
   
2. Armor matters more.
   
   • Interesting you say this, since most modern ships are lightly armored. (Not armed - note the distinction.) Witness the gaping hole in the side of the USS Cole from a small boat of explosives. And many people would say that stealth matters immensely as more and more rogue states acquire castoffs from the former Soviet Union.
     
   
   
3. There's a good argument for heavily armored battleships for shore bombardment...
   
   • The ERGM (scroll down for a description of it) has a range far greater than any 16-inch gun ever did. In addition, guided munitions such as the Tomahawk and the ERGM are much more accurate and precise than 16-inch gunfire is, allowing for fewer shells fired and less chance of friendly fire casualties.
     
   
   
4. The U.S. Navy had an "arsenal ship" concept in the early 1990s, but never built any.
   
   • The Navy is still reviewing this design, actually - you can see an overviews, histories and diagrams of it here, here, and here. One of the many, many reasons that it is currently in limbo has to do with a proposed plan to retrofit some of the oldest Ohio-class submarines to carry 154 Tomahawks and a SEAL team, which would duplicate the effort being expended to design an arsenal ship. The DD-21 is another duplication of effort issue further muddying the outlook for the arsenal ship, as its explicit job is land attack.
     
   
   

Though a little short on info, the US Navy's Fact File on the Sea Shadow is here.

A little off-topic, but the US Navy Fact File site contains info on all kinds of Navy military hardware. If you hear about a ship in the news, like the Enterprise, the Carl Vinson, or the Peleliu, you can find out more information (and links to most of the ships' web sites) there.

Though a little short on info, the US Navy's Fact File on the Sea Shadow is here.

A little off-topic, but the US Navy Fact File site contains info on all kinds of Navy military hardware. If you hear about a ship in the news, like the Enterprise, the Carl Vinson, or the Peleliu, you can find out more information (and links to most of the ships' web sites) there.