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Aloha Everyone,

Here's another catch-all topic for USN Weapons Systems, Stations, Depots, Units and everything related to Naval Ordnance

Please feel free to add your own examples of AE Ammunition Ships, and Naval Mines, Guns, Bombs, Missiles and other ordnance

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US Naval Ordnance Unit - cut edge Japanese made

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USN Hawaii Ordnance Units

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Naval Ammunition Depot Oahu Hawaii - Naval Magazine Lualualei

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Naval Torpedo Station Hawaii Detachment

The torpedo retrievers, we worked with them quite often at Port Allen, Kauai off of the Barking Sands range

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I spent many a day in the Kauai Channel providing armed security, chasing off fishing boats, pakalolo smugglers, looky loos, retrieving test torpedoes and uh, secret stuff (nuff said)

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Tangier Island Target Range (Chesapeake Bay) Ace Novelty

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SAM For the Missilemen - GMM Gunners Mate Missiles & FTM Fire Controlman Missiles

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Dam Neck, VA Naval Guided MIssiles School - Gemsco

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1960 Naval Bureau of Weapons Pistol Club

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Mig Killers - SM2 This Ones For You!

USN Standard Missile Mk 2

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...one of my favorites

 

On The Bullseye - USNAAS Fallon Nevada Range Crew

Vester Scopos Noster Scopus "Our Aim Your Targets"

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EODGRUPAC - Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group Pacific

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USS NIMITZ

1970's Vampire Killers - Ace Novelty, Tokyo, Japan

The Rim 7 Seasparrow and Phalanx - the modern gatling gun

(Vampires are incoming enemy missiles)

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POSEIDON - Peace Through Brute Force, Ace Novelty

SSBN Ballistic Missile Submarines

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Here are two I picked up yesterday at the Bay Area Military Show in Hayward, California.

 

 

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USN EOD with I think a diver riding a shark with a hardhat in the background

 

 

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From the Naval Weapons Evaluation Facility which was stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.

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US Naval Weapons Station at Yorktown, Virginia.

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I guess this might qualify as a test site or location, a nice set of jumper cuffs from Bikini Atoll

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One of my favorites from from the Experimental US Naval Ordnance Test Station at Inyokern, California.

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And lastly.

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Nice additions. I've been after the Inyo Kern patch for some time now.

 

Westpac Persian Gulf 1987

Iran, for all you do, this bomb's for you

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Torpedo Retriever YFRT-520 NUWES KEYPORT 6" patch, In Service 1943 to 2000

Naval Undersea Warfare Center aka "Torpedo Town", now NUWC

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.....and a sister yard craft in service 1944 - Torpedo Retriever YFRT 451 also assigned to Torpedo Town, Keyport, WA from 1951 to 1993.  Cut edge patch, She was unofficially known as the SPIRIT "We Do Moor"

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HARPOON Anti Ship Missiles

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HARM Shooters

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Delivered by the EA-6B Prowlers

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Naval Ordnance Laboratory White Oak Maryland

SPAR - Seagoing Platform for Acoustic Research

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On 4/16/2017 at 12:28 PM, Siamundo said:

I guess this might qualify as a test site or location, a nice set of jumper cuffs from Bikini Atoll

 

Monitoring the Bikini Test Site (Operation Crossroads)

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The short lived (1966 to 1970) Underwater Weapons Research and Engineering Station, Newport Rhode Island,

Formerly the Naval Torpedo Station RI, which became NUWC

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On 4/16/2017 at 4:16 AM, Tonomachi said:

Here are two I picked up yesterday at the Bay Area Military Show in Hayward, California.

 

 

 

Really nice patches Tonomachi,

 

USS IOWA (BB-61) "The Big Stick" Weapons Department 16" Landscaping

Gunners' Mates & Fire Control Technicians circa 1984-1990

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VLS Vertical Launch System

 

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The first missile in the Tomahawk “family” was the Tomahawk antiship missile (TASM). With a range of several hundred miles and a 1,000-pound warhead, TASM used an inertial navigation system and a terminal radar seeker for attacking surface ships. It became operational on board U.S. surface ships in 1982 and submarines in 1983. The destroyer Merrill (DD-976) received the first Tomahawk installation in October 1982 for at sea evaluation; the battleship New Jersey (BB-62) was the second ship, receiving the Tomahawk in March 1983.
 
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The missiles were deployed in armored box launchers (ABLs) on board the four Iowa -class battleships reactivated in the 1980s by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. The ABLs also were fitted in five cruisers and in seven destroyers of the Spruance class. Each ABL held four Tomahawks, providing 32 missiles per battleship (plus 16 Harpoons) and eight Tomahawks per cruiser and destroyer.
 

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USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69)

G-1 Division Hangar Deck Ordnance Med Cruise 1982 Ace Novelty

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USS ANTRIM (FFG-20) Ordnance Division - Dealers in Death and Destruction

 

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GMG - GMM

Gunners Mate Guns - Gunners Mate Missiles

Mark 45 & Mark 26 Combat Ordnance Division

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Here are a few of mine....

 

I like this one, from a Nimitz Grouping...

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USN Missile Center

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China Lake....

 

 

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Seal Beach...

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On 3/28/2017 at 7:44 AM, Salvage Sailor said:

Dam Neck, VA Naval Guided MIssiles School - Gemsco

 

The harder to find round version

 

Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, VA

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AO Aviation Ordnanceman School

Naval Air Technical Training Center Jacksonville, Florida

Cut edge 1950's - 60's

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FT School - FTM Fire Control Missiles & FTG Fire Control Guns

 

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Fire Control Technician (A) School, Great Lakes, Illinois

 

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