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How an Aircraft Carrier’s Air Wing Works
An aircraft carrier airwing’s mainstay will always be its fighter jets, through which the carrier battle group can project force and take the fight to an adversary.
USS Nimitz is a state-of-the-art warship that boasts a 100,000-ton displacement and is able to carry 5,000 sailors onboard.
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group concluded drills in the Philippine Sea with a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ...
An F/A-18 Super Hornet assigned to the "Gunslingers" of Strike Fighter Squadron 105 launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman In the extraordinary ...
An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136, launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75). US Navy Photo This post has ...
Preparations are underway to dismantle USS Enterprise, the Navy’s first nuclear carrier, at the same shipyard where it was ...
A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been lost at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier ... propeller shafts, Nimitz-class carriers like the Truman ...
A US F/A-18 Super Hornet attack fighter jet taking off from the US Navy's Nimitz-class USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier at sea. Picture: AFP The US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S.