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No credible threat at US Naval Academy, governor's office says; Here's what happened (Jake Shindel/WBAL)
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/us-naval-academy-lockdown-law-enforcement-responds-threats/66056587
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p172#a250911p172

Russia-Ukraine naval drone arms race could 'usher in a new era of warfare': https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/russiaukraine-naval-drone-arms-race.html

🥏 From gladiators to mock naval battles, what were the major sports events in the ancient world?
https://theconversation.com/from-gladiators-to-mock-naval-battles-what-were-the-major-sports-events-in-the-ancient-…

From gladiators to mock naval battles, what were the major sports events in the ancient world?
Australians love a major sporting event and so did the ancient Greeks and Romans. And it wasn’t just the Olympics they flocked to.

More than 2 million people across Italy rallied in over 100 cities Friday for a one-day general strike to support the residents of Gaza and a humanitarian aid mission, Italy’s largest union said.
Italian unions proclaimed the strike after the Global Sumud Flotilla that was trying to break Israel’s naval blockade to deliver aid to Gaza was intercepted by Israeli naval forces Wednesday night.
Protests and demonstrations have sprung up all over Europe and globally since then,

Millions rally in Italy in solidarity with Gaza amid clashes and disruptions
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike. Italy’s largest union announced the strike on Friday to support Gaza residents and a humanitarian mission. Italian unions called for the strike after the Global Sumud Flotilla, trying to break Israel’s naval blockade, was intercepted by Israeli forces Wednesday night. Italy’s conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the strike, calling it politically motivated. In Rome, 300,0…

Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza
About 20 Israeli naval ships approached the fleet of more than 40 boats carrying aid, activists on board say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-m…

Ukrainian naval drone explosion in Novorossiysk Bay kills 5 'elite' Russian divers, intelligence claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/ukrainian-naval-drone-explosion-in.html

"On October 7, 1571, one of the greatest battles in the history of humanity began. On this date, more than 75% of the galleys, galleasses, galleots and frigates available in all the fleets of the world, 580 ships and more than 100,000 men, gathered in Lepanto.... The Battle of Lepanto is usually considered the bloodiest naval battle of all time."
#WesternEurope

Active shooter at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis MD
#navy #USNavy #annapolis #USNA

U.S. Naval Academy on Lockdown Following Reports of Active Shooter
UPDATE #1: From a source on the scene there are three casualtiues (not fatalities) one was transported to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, one transported to a local hospital, and another flow…

ICE raids in Chicago could start as early as Friday, but are expected to begin Saturday, Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker warned. 
The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon for access to Naval Station Great Lakes
- the largest military base in Illinois
- to base an operation, The Washington Post reported. 
The request said that around 250 federal agents and 140 vehicles would utilize the base. 
National Guard troops could also be sent in t…

Trump readies SIEGE of Chicago as feds prepare for massive immigration raid in showdown with crime-plagued city
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is gearing up for a massive immigration raid of Chicago - the city President Donald Trump said he'd selected for the next federal military takeover.

Assessment of Hybrid RANS-LES and WALE Formulations for Wake and Resistance Prediction of the BB2 Submarine
Noh Zainal Abidin (GeM), Frederic Grondin (GeM), Pol Muller (Naval Expert), Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Sigrist (Naval Expert)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03383

Assessment of Hybrid RANS-LES and WALE Formulations for Wake and Resistance Prediction of the BB2 Submarine
Submarine hydrodynamics presents unique challenges in accurately predicting flow separation, wake structure, and resistance due to complex geometry and turbulent behaviour at high Reynolds (Re) numbers. Traditional Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approaches are often limited in resolving unsteady flow structures and turbulence in the near and far regions. To address these limitations, hybrid RANS-LES models such as Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) offer impr…

Good Morning #Canada
Before #WWII, Canada could still be considered a tiny nation in terms of our influence on world affairs. But after the conflict broke out, we contributed well beyond expectations and our navy was an example. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) started the war with only 13 vessels, but when WWII ended, we had the 4th largest navy in the world. By 1945 the RCN had 450 ships in all, plus many smaller auxiliary units. This 1945 figure breaks down as follows: 2 cruisers, 17 destroyers, 68 frigates, 112 corvettes, 67 minesweepers, 12 escort ships, 75 Fairmile motor launches. During WWII, Canadian shipyards built a total of 4,047 naval vessels and 410 merchant ships for a grand total of 4,457 ships. The naval vessels included over 300 anti-submarine warships, as well as thousands of landing craft, escort ships, minesweepers, and tugs.
#CanadaIsAwesome #RemembranceDay
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Royal-Canadian-Navy/Second-World-War

ICE Eyes Naval Base Outside Chicago as Operations Center (Victoria Albert/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-chicago-operations-naval-base-e343c18a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p105#a250828p105

From PREVENTion to REACTion: Enhancing Failure Resolution in Naval Systems
Maria Teresa Rossi, Leonardo Mariani, Oliviero Riganelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15584 https://

From PREVENTion to REACTion: Enhancing Failure Resolution in Naval Systems
Complex and large industrial systems often misbehave, for instance, due to wear, misuse, or faults. To cope with these incidents, it is important to timely detect their occurrences, localize the sources of the problems, and implement the appropriate countermeasures. This paper reports our experience with a state-of-the-art failure prediction method, PREVENT, and its extension with a troubleshooting module, REACT, applied to naval systems developed by Fincantieri. Our results show how to integra…

Pirates of the Mediterranean.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is being entirely ignored, it seems.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-military-vessels-pro-palestinian-flo…

Did you know potus may plan to use Great Lakes Naval Base north of the city as a staging area to illegally occupy the City of Chicago?
Did you know there are 2 main expressway intersections immediately South of that base (on the way to the city) that, say, National Guard could secure for the defense of the state? Or protestors.
🧵1/3
cc @…

Metamaterials and Fluid Flows
Francesco Avallone, Federico Bosia, Yi Chen, Giada Colombo, Richard Craster, Jacopo Maria De Ponti, Nicol\`o Fabbiane, Michael R. Haberman, Mahmoud I. Hussein, Wontae Hwang, Umberto Iemma, Abigail Juhl, Muamer Kadic, Marios Kotsonis, Vincent Laude, Olivier Marquet, Fabien Mery, Theodoros Michelis, Mostafa Nouh, Daniele Ragni, Marie Touboul, Martin Wegener, Anastasiia O. Krushynska

Metamaterials and Fluid Flows
Understanding and controlling the dynamic interactions between fluid flows and solid materials and structures-a field known as fluid-structure interaction -is central not only to established disciplines such as aerospace and naval engineering but also to emerging technologies such as energy harvesting, soft robotics, and biomedical devices. In recent years, the advent of metamaterials-rationally designed composites with properties beyond their constituents, often not found in conventional mater…

Ukraine to begin exporting naval drones, other weapons, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/21/ukraine-to-begin-exporting-naval.html

The U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material detected almost a year ago at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco
According to a notice warning community groups in neighborhoods around the defunct base,
the Navy notified the San Francisco Department of Public Health only this month about elevated levels of plutonium-239 found last November.
Community groups and at least one San Francisco supervisor called the 11-month…

Navy Took 11 Months to Alert SF to Airborne Plutonium at Hunters Point Shipyard Site | KQED
San Francisco officials and advocates are demanding answers after the U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material found last November.

Fighting intensifies around Zolotyi Kolodyaz as Russia deploys airborne and naval infantry to Pokrovsk area: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/08/fighting-intensifies-around-zolotyi-kolodyaz.html

Comprehensive Numerical Hydrodynamic Analysis of Submarine in a Straight Course Simulation Using Wall-Resolved RANS Models
Noh Zainal Abidin (GeM), Frederic Grondin (GeM), Pol Muller (Naval Expert), Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Sigrist (Naval Expert)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04911

Comprehensive Numerical Hydrodynamic Analysis of Submarine in a Straight Course Simulation Using Wall-Resolved RANS Models
This research explores several critical factors affecting CFD-based prediction accuracy of submarine hydrodynamics and builds upon previous work on preliminary mesh and solver benchmarking. A scaled submarine model is analyzed numerically using the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence model at a Reynold number (Re) of 3.6x106 with wall-resolved meshes targeting y+ <5. Based on prior work using a 13x106 cells mesh generated with SnappyHexMesh, a mesh convergence study was performed …

SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr (Joe Perticone/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trump-replaces-admiral-office-naval-research-rothenhaus-riley-doge
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p37#a251030p37

What’s the toll for driving an MRAP into Chicago from Great Lakes Naval Base to the city?
The toll for an MRAP illegally invading #Chicago is the eternal shame and dishonor of failing your duty to the American people, ridicule for all your years and even your grandchildren being chastised for your actions, possibly both indictment for violations of article 92 of the UCMJ and being prosecu…

U.S. forces hit another vessel on the pretext of illegal drugs off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday evening,
Donald Trump said on Sunday that the U.S. would also "start" looking at drug trafficking occurring on land.
Trump made the comment during a speech at Naval Station Norfolk, next to the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier.
It was not immediately clear if he was referencing a strike announced Friday by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Good Morning #Canada
In July 1871, the City of Victoria officially became the capital of British Columbia, when the province joined the rest of Canada. At the time, the city was larger than Vancouver and had served as the most important settlement in the area for decades. The Colony of Vancouver Island also stamped their little feet and demanded that Victoria be designated as the capital in return for the island to join with the mainland to become part of Canada. Captain James Cook was the first British person to set foot on Vancouver Island in 1778, and in 1843, Fort Victoria was established by the Hudson's Bay Company. There is a long history of Vancouver Island serving as a naval base, and today, Victoria is the home of Canada’s Pacific Coast naval and military headquarters in nearby Esquimalt. Victoria is a top tourist destination and is regularly rated top 5 worldwide as an awesome place to live.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-bc

A Preliminary Assessment of Shipboard Power System Architectures for LVDC Integration
D. Roncagliolo (Univerisity of Genova), M. Gallo (Univerisity of Genova), D. Kaza (Cetena S.p.A), F. D'Agostino (Univerisity of Genova), A. Chiarelli (Fincantieri S.p.A), F. Silvestro (Univerisity of Genova)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22567

A Preliminary Assessment of Shipboard Power System Architectures for LVDC Integration
The adoption of low-voltage direct current sections within grid architectures is emerging as a promising design option in the naval sector. This paper presents a preliminary comparative assessment of three different grid topologies, using an existing MVAC-LVAC shipboard power system as a reference: a conventional MVAC-LVAC radial distribution with an additional LVDC section, a full LVDC radial distribution and a zonal LVDC distribution. Each architecture includes typical elements such as synchr…

China is undertaking a large-scale build-out of infrastructure along its eastern coast,
including air and naval sites that show its growing readiness for a potential conflict over Taiwan.
Satellite images and other open-source material examined by The Wall Street Journal illustrate how these facilities would strengthen China’s hand if it launched an invasion of the island democracy.
Beijing claims Taiwan as its territory and has pledged to take it, by force if necessary.

Russia test-fires Kalibr and Uran missiles during naval exercises in the Sea of Japan: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/russia-testfires-kalibr-and-uran.html

Assessment of hydrodynamic characteristics and computational resources for submarine resistance analysis: A comparative study between CFD Codes with application of the BB2 Submarine
Noh Zainal Abidin (GeM), Fr\'ed\'eric Grondin (GeM), Pol Muller (Naval Expert), Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Sigrist (Naval Expert)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.049…

Assessment of hydrodynamic characteristics and computational resources for submarine resistance analysis: A comparative study between CFD Codes with application of the BB2 Submarine
Submarines are vital for maritime defense, requiring optimized hydrodynamic performance to minimize resistance. Advancements in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) enable accurate predictions of submarine hydrodynamics for optimal design. This study compared the meshing capabilities of OpenFOAM and commercial software as well as the performance of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and standard PC resources upon hydrodynamic characteristics. The RANS turbulence model with was employed to analyze t…

Sweden to become air and naval shield for Ukraine: new wave of security guarantees: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/sweden-to-become-air-and.html

The CCOR Compact Coronagraphs for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-19 (GOES-19) and the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Missions
A. F. Thernisien, D. H. Chua, M. T. Carter, N. B. Rich, M. Noya, T. A. Babich, C. E. Crippa, B. Baugh, Y. Bordlemay, D. Socker, D. Biesecker, C. Korendyke, D. Wang, D. Vassiliadis, N-Y. Wang, S. Abbay, S. Bagnall, L. Balmaceda, S. Brown, J. Bonafede, D. Boyer, J. Declet, P. Cheng, K. Corsi, L. Cremerius, I. Chavis, J. Chiralo, G. Clifford,…

The CCOR Compact Coronagraphs for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-19 (GOES-19) and the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Missions
The CCOR Compact Coronagraph is a series of two operational solar coronagraphs sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). They were designed, built, and tested by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The CCORs will be used by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center to detect and track Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and predict the Space Weather. CCOR-1 is on board the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite -U (GOES-U, now GOES-19/GOES-East). GOES-U wa…

The White House’s former top Latin America official has said
he fears the US could stumble into a protracted guerrilla war in Venezuela
after Donald Trump ordered a military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea,
killing 11 alleged drug traffickers.
Tuesday’s controversial strike off the Venezuelan coast – which was reportedly carried out by an attack helicopter or Reaper drone – came after Trump ordered a major naval deployment to the region,
ostensibly to comb…

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Plans Chicago Immigration Crackdown Launched From Naval Base (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/28/us/trump-news-updates
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p127#a250828p127

So in January 2028, when potus refuses to leave and tries deploying DC, SC, OH and WV National Guard to hold DC, will NY, MD, VA, DE, NJ and PA National Guards have enough forces to counter, or do other states need to build a naval guard elements to retake the capital from the water?
#USpol

Trump's planned Chicago blitz would use naval base to house ICE agents, possibly National Guard (Violet Miller/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/08/27/donald-trump-chicago-downtown-ice-immigration-national-guard-brandon-johnson-jb-pritzker
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p47#a250827p47

Good Morning #Canada
On August 19th, 1942, Operation Jubilee was launched. Commonly known as the Dieppe Raid, it was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port in northern France. Over 6,050 infantry, predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment of tanks, were put ashore from a naval force operating under the protection of Royal Air Force fighter aircraft. Aerial and naval support was insufficient to enable the ground forces to achieve their objectives. The tanks were trapped on the beach, and the infantry was largely prevented from entering the town by obstacles and German fire. After less than six hours, mounting casualties forced a retreat. Within ten hours, 3,623 of the 6,086 men who landed had been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. 5,000 were Canadians, who suffered a 68% casualty rate, with 3,367 killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. The operation was a fiasco and a dark day for Canada’s military.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #WWII
https://youtu.be/jiFKJNiXFok?si=fWzmcigVM8ZFfmHE

Good Morning #Canada
Collingwood Ontario today is known as a resort town, supporting skiers at Blue Mountains and swimmers at nearby Wasaga Beach. But the town was built on their reputation for ship building for over 100 years. The Collingwood Shipyard, established in 1882, was a major shipbuilding center, building over 200 ships including Great Lakes freighters, naval vessels, and the HMCS Hochelaga. During #WWII the shipyard launched ships for the Canadian Navy. The shipyard was famous for its unique side-launching technique, necessary due to harbour constraints, which became a significant local spectacle. It closed in 1986, and after significant remediation efforts, the site is now a waterfront park with mixed housing and a marina.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://definingmomentscanada.ca/all-for-9/historical-articles/whats-a-side-launch/