NEPTUNE No.29

  

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NEPTUNE No.6

 

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NEPTUNE No. 5

 

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NEPTUNE No.4

 

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NEPTUNE No.3 out at last!

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Editor's Note:

My apologies for the untimely fashion NEPTUNE no.3 came out. March was a particularly hard month in real life but here we are and catching up. Thank you for your support. Go Navy! 

CAPT. Asra Kron

NEPTUNE No.2 in a news stand near you!

NH Industries MH-90 MFH Block 18 NH

NH Industries MH-90 MFH Block 18 NH, DD-80, BuNo 18003, from HMH-466, Wolfpack, stationed at MCAF Quantico. The 80 was the first MH-90 MFH delivered to MCAFQ and is flown by USMC Major Dominique “Alba” van Dongen. This model provides the Wolfpack with a wide range of operational options in the North Satori, South Nautilus area where Quantico is located but also enhances Third Fleet capabilities in the PATROU role in Tuarua Fiji, and provides CSAR in southern COMNAVAIRNAU.
The MH-90 size, range and workload makes the NH 90 an ideal alternative for the heavy helicopter role in the Fleet. MH-90 MFH is the SL USMC designation for multipurpose helicopter, NH90 the manufacturer designation, and MFH the USMC version indicator. The MH-90 MFH Block 18 NH is AAR enabled, and can perform hovering extractions of material and personnel by using the built in belly and side winches.

Real Life Notes:

The NH90 NFH is the most modern and the best naval helicopter in its class. It has been designed with safety and versatility in mind in order to fulfill the most demanding missions in the harshest
weather conditions for the XXIst century. The NH90 features a redundant fly by wire system, a full composite corrosion free airframe, two powerful engines, a fully integrated weapon system
as well as a wide cabin easily reconfigurable. It can operate from a
shore base or a Frigate up to sea state 5.
Among the multi-missions the NH90 NFH is capable of executing are Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW), Anti Surface Warfare (ASuW), Search and Rescue, Maritime Surveillance and Control, Limited Airborne Early Warning, Logistic Transport and Utility support, Vertical Replenishment (VERTREP), Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC), and Special Ops, including Counter Terrorism and Anti-Piracy.

CAPT. Asra "Cougar" Kron
NASMCO / TFCOM

Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey

The Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey, the USMC version of the V-22 in use by the United States Navy, is in use by three squadrons in the USN Third Fleet SL. The portrayed aircraft, BuNo. 18005, DD-30, belongs to VMM-262 “The Flying Tigers”, and is flown by Major Dominique “Alba” van Dongen, the commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico, located in the North coast of the Satori continent, where the Tigers are stationed.
The DD-30 has a medium visibility commander color scheme, the other aircraft in the squadron using the low visibility marine gray livery, and is the first of a projected three aircraft delivery to be fulfilled until April 2018, together with the two MV-22 Ospreys to be deployed with HMX-1 that, as in real life, is stationed at MCAF Quantico, handling the transport of very important persons in Second Life, whereas the real life HMX-1 is the presidential squadron.

Used in a variety of roles, from CSAR to COD and long range patrols, the VMM-262 Ospreys operate mainly in the southern COMNAVAIRNAU area, covering not only the Satori continent but also Nautilus South and the Blake and Islands regions, with support capability in the Nordic easternmost area of the Blake.
The MV-22 has air-to-air refueling capability which enables it a virtually limitless range, provided tankers can support its operations. It can carry a variety of cargo or external loads and inside up to 20 heavily equipped marines or marine parachutists, or 10 assault equipped marines and a light attack vehicle.

Real Life Notes:

The V-22 Osprey is a joint service multirole combat aircraft utilizing tiltrotor technology to combine the vertical performance of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing aircraft. With its rotors in vertical position, it can take off, land and hover like a helicopter. Once airborne, it can convert to a turboprop airplane capable of high-speed, high-altitude flight. This combination results in global reach capabilities that allow the V-22 to fill an operational niche unlike any other aircraft.

The V-22 Osprey meets U.S. Navy and U.S.M.C. requirements for CSAR (combat search and rescue), COD (fleet logistics support), and special warfare support, matches the U.S. Special Operations Command’s requirement for a high-speed, long-range, vertical lift aircraft, can be stored aboard an aircraft carrier or assault ship because the rotors can fold and the wings rotate, has air-to-air refueling capability, the cornerstone of the ability to self-deploy and can carry 24 fully equipped troops or 20,000 pounds of internal cargo, or in alternative 15,000 pounds of equipment externally.
The Osprey program faced several developmental challenges since its first flight in 1989, including several crashes during tests that resulted in 30 deaths. But the Navy and Marine Corps developed new flight techniques and enhanced systems before it first deployed to Iraq in support of Marine operations in Anbar province and the aircraft has proven safer than many rotary-wing aircraft in the fleet.

CAPT. Asra "Cougar" Kron
NASMCO / TFCOM

Third Fleet Launches NEPTUNE Magazine

 
The NEPTUNE magazine arrives close to the beginning of Third Fleet's third year of existence, the anniversary as an independent entity in the United States Naval Service in Second Life being June 23. But we could not wait. This monthly magazine will be available in world as a real scale magazine (with a new real cover/back each month), available at selected places in the Grid for free from its own dispensers. You can place the NEPTUNE magazine on your desk, coffee table, waiting room or wherever you wish and if you touch it you will get a link to the web version on this blog.

Each month a new NEPTUNE magazine will be published and distributed in World and in e-format via NAVSL group, the Naval Service in Second Life information hub. We hope this way to add some more visibility to our activities and open the door to other groups that wish to use this vehicle to link to their own stories in their own websites, blogs or social media pages. From the editor's desk, in the Black Sheep hangar at NAS Miramar, my sincere wishes of a great new year 2018. Go Navy!

from the Editorial by Asra Kron, NEPTUNE Magazine

NEPTUNE is a project that finally came to light as Third Fleet always aspired to have a link to not just her own stories but those of other naval service groups and naval aviation manufacturers, gathered in one place: the magazine. The convenience of the display version, that can be obtained by everyone via dispensers set in world at selected places in the grid and is distributed to your door each edition if you are a member of the Naval Service in Second Life info group (NAVSL), adds to your role play and links directly to the true magazine that lives online.

NEPTUNE Magazine dispenser.

 
The beauty of this format is that you can send us the link and first paragraph of a story you'd like published and via the NEPTUNE magazine the readers will land there. So no need for large redaction boards and "pre-press" staff. If you are part of a naval service group, or are a manufacturer of naval aviation products and wish to share a story, we will gladly publish it if it fits the context. It will also enhance Third Fleet's editorial capabilities, namely Miramar's, by adding a complete new set of photography special sections to our web based media.

If you did not get the first issue, just follow the link below. Contact Asra Kron (x4ten) for the in world edition/link. Blue skies and happy reading!

NEPTUNE Magazine - no.1 - January 2018 (follow the link).

CAPT. Asra Kron
NASMCO / TFCOM