USS Kitty Hawk (CVV-63)

The USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was commissioned April 29, 1961, he was the oldest aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy during its withdrawal from service in late January 2009.
He gave his name to the Kitty Hawk class (USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), USS Constellation (CV-64), USS America (CV-66)) which is the last representative. It is on a range of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina city, was the site in 1903, the first flight of the Flyer, the Wright brothers' airplane.



This is the second ship to bear the name of the place where occurred the first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Upon entry into service, its code was CVA-63 will be changed during the conversion of aircraft carrier attack multi-mission aircraft carrier. Its cost is estimated at $ 400 million in 1961.

His first home port is Naval Base San Diego from 1960. From 1963 to 1978, he participated in eight long deployments 6 for the support of the forces involved in the Vietnam War.

In March 1976, he was upgraded (bill of 100 million U.S. dollars) and surface-to-air missile RIM-2 Terrier are replaced with Sea Sparrow.
So are not repeated atomic disasters like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons is prohibited on the entire Japanese territory. This is why the man who was at the end of his career the only aircraft carrier in U.S. conventional propulsion was based in Japan as part of the U.S. Seventh Fleet from 11 August 1998.

This will continue until September 25, 2008, upon arrival in the Yokosuka Naval Base, after negotiations, the USS George Washington (CVN-73) nuclear propulsion to replace the Kitty Hawk is retired from active service on January 31, 2009.
His last home port is Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton (Washington) for its dismantling.

USS Nimetz (CVN-68)

USS Nimetz (CVN-68) U.S. aircraft carrier, one of the largest warships in the world and a leading class aircraft carriers Nimetz. Named after the commander of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II Chester Nimetz.

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Nimetz aircraft carriers are part of a group of 11 Strike bearing with them in this group carrier air wing 11, and is also a ship in the squadron commander and 23 destroyers, which also includes six destroyers and a frigate. The wing-bearing air fitted fighter F / er -18 Hornet and F \ ie -18 E \ F Super Hornet aircraft and Grumman E A-6 B and Wi - 2 Pins and helicopters S. H. -60 C Hawk modified vector Karoman C -2 Qrihound to enhance market.

USS George Washington (CVN - 73)

USS George Washington (CVN - 73): carrier U.S. aircraft belonging to the United States Navy and named after the first U.S. President George W. and Ashtun. And are in service and is currently moored in Japan as part of the Treaty on the protection of Japan and which are the responsibility of the United States.


History:
Was launched on July 4, 1992 and has been involved or almost to be involved in several operations, including in 1994 when the United States threatened Iraq, the consequences of the invasion of Kuwait again Vibhrt aircraft carrier USS George Washington to the Gulf, but before they reach to the Gulf and while it is in the Red Sea reversed Iraq's decision and withdraw troops from the border.

Has this bearing participated in the peacekeeping operation in Bosnia in 1996, as it sailed in the Arabian Gulf to announce its control and hegemony over the course of events there in 1997 to force Iraq to allow UN inspectors to search for weapons of mass destruction. And has returned this bearing the same position in 2000 in the Persian Gulf and has been involved in the Iraq war in 2002.

USS Enterprise and Eisenhower Aerial video CVN65 AND 69

USS Enterprise (CVN-65)

  U.S. aircraft carrier is the first aircraft carriers that operate working on nuclear energy at the same time the aircraft carrier the oldest of the carriers in service to the United States Navy, where they serve in the U.S. Navy since 1961. And will be forwarded to retire by the year 2013......MORE

Uss Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)

U.S. aircraft carrier belonging to the U.S. Navy and named after the 34th U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. And built at a cost of $ 4.7 billion....MORE

Helicopter carrier Mistral-type

The Mistral class is a type of helicopter carrier amphibious assault of the French Navy as part of the projection and command. Their name is NATO Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD).

The buildings of the Mistral class is the first of its kind to be built in France for the French Navy. Their size and characteristics allow them to be integrated either French carrier battle group, or a NATO Response Force (reaction force NATO) or missions peacekeeping under UN mandate or under of the European Union.

Three of these vessels, the study began in 1997, were built: the Mistral (L9013), admitted to active service on 18 December 2006 and Tonnerre (L9014) which was August 1, 2007. Third, Dixmude (L9015), came into operation on 27 July 2012. The cost of each of the Mistral class ship is estimated to EUR 294 million to EUR 420 million.

Invincible-class aircraft carrier

Aircraft carrier class Invincible built the first of the carrier category Invincible in building Basin Vickers Shipbuilding. And entered service in July 1980. 

And carried the name HMS Invincible  And carried the second carrier HMS name Elistruiz, and the third name HMS Ark Royal; Benita in the basin Swan Hunter, in 1982, 1985. Cost carriers of this class command and control task for a group fighting sea. And offers listed for take-off and landing vertical take-off aircraft, and helicopters.

 Armed the three carriers, in the beginning, surface missile system / Joe, ever dual Pitcher. However, this system was removed later, to lengthen the flight deck, so the carrier can receive aircraft of the type Harrier GR 7.

 Category carriers equipped with three central defense systems, of the kind Phalanx MK - 15, in addition to the cannon GAM B01 caliber of 20 mm. The carrier can accommodate nine aircraft of the type Harrier GR - 7, or Sea Harrier F/A2; and nine helicopters type Sea King HAS - 6, equipped to fight submarines; and three aircraft Sea King AEW - 2, equipped with warning systems and early warning. It has been tested landing and takeoff vertical modern Merlin HM1 on this category of carriers, and will replace existing aircraft, since 2005. These carriers feature a surface fly, 170-meter-long, deflected the buttocks to the top at an angle of 12 degrees, to help take-off aircraft. Carriers used four engines produced by Rolls Royce-type turbine TM 3B, which works with gasoline fuel.

1. Country of Origin: United Kingdom.

2. Use: aircraft carrier, to serve as a command center for maritime groups fighting.

3. States used: the United Kingdom.

Ships in class:

:: HMS Invincible :: 

Builders: Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in Barrow-in-Furness

Laid down: 20 July 1973

Launched: 8 May 1977 

Operator: Royal Navy

Commissioned: 11 July 1980 

Decommissioned: 3 August 2005 

Status: Scrapped 2011

Modifications: Lengthened flight deck, removal of Sea Dart SAM, addition of three Goalkeeper CIWS

Operations: Falklands War, Operation Deny Flight, Operation Deliberate Force, Operation Bolton, Operation Allied Force

Victories: 21 Argentine aircraft during Falklands War.

:: HMS Illustrious ::

Builders: Swan Hunter on the River Tyne

Laid down: 7 October 1976

Launched: 14 December 1978 

Operator: Royal Navy

Commissioned: 20 June 1982

Status: In active service, based at Portsmouth

Modifications: Lengthened flight deck, removal of Sea Dart SAM, addition of three Goalkeeper CIWS

Operations: Bosnia, Operation Palliser, Evacuation of British Citizens from Beirut (Israeli-Lebanon Conflict 2006)

:: HMS Ark Royal ::

Builders: Swan Hunter in Wallsend

Laid down: 14 December 1978

Launched: 2 June 1981

Operator: Royal Navy

Commissioned: 1 November 1985 

Status: Scrapped 2013

Modifications: Enlarged flight deck, removal of Sea Dart SAM, addition of three Phalanx CIWS

Operations: 1993-1994 Operation Deny Flight, 2003 invasion of Iraq - Operation Telic.

Akagi (aircraft carrier)

The Akagi was an aircraft carrier serving in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Only ship of her class, Akagi played a key role in the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, but it was destroyed, along with three other carriers, a few months later by the dive bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and Yorktown at the Battle of Midway.

The aircraft carrier Akagi was starts as the battlecruiser Amagi class, Kure (Japan). To meet the constraints of the Washington Treaty of 1922, he and her sistership the Amagi had to be converted into an aircraft carrier. However, Amagi was destroyed during the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, the construction of the other battle cruisers of this class (Atago and Takao) was canceled and scrapped hulls already started. Only remaining ship of her class, Akagi was launched April 22, 1925 and completed by the Yokosuka sites as one of the first major Japanese aircraft carrier March 27, 1927.

He then demonstrates the naval experiments of the Japanese Navy in the 1930s. It has a triple flight deck, not an island and a fireplace on the side of the ship and headed down.

The aircraft carrier Akagi was totally overhauled in 1935-1938, while gaining a flight deck extending over the entire length of the building and increased carrying capacity from 61-91 aircraft. Due to the increasing size of embedded devices, however, this ability was reduced in 1942. The redesign has moved the island on the port side of the vessel, which is very unusual (the only other carrier to share this feature with him his contemporary Hiryu).

The development of this type of aircraft carrier in the Imperial Navy (for Akagi like Kaga) reveals the mindset that followed the Washington Naval Treaty: the Akagi was actually designed to be fully converted liner in case of conflict: the locations of turrets, ammunition magazines, and all the equipment to receive the heavy artillery of a battleship were implemented on board the flight deck wood and the shed should be quickly removed to make room for guns. In 1935, Japanese admirals saw the aircraft carrier as the equal of the liner. The Akagi and Kaga were redesigned so as aircraft carriers full and conversion plans in battle cruiser were abandoned.