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![Twelve US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet's, Strike Fighter Squadron 102 (VFA-102), Diamondbacks, Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi, Japan, perform a formation fly-by after completing their deployment aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) [not shown]. Kitty Hawk and embarked Carrier Air Wing 5 (CVW-5) are returning to their homeport after a scheduled deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR)](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn10/L3Bob3RvLzIwMDUvMDgvMTgvdHdlbHZlLXVzLW5hdnktdXNuLWZhLTE4Zi1zdXBlci1ob3JuZXRzLXN0cmlrZS1maWdodGVyLXNxdWFkcm9uLTEwMi12ZmEtMTAyLTJlNTYzMi02NDAuanBn/40/28/webp "Twelve US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet's, Strike Fighter Squadron 102 (VFA-102), Diamondbacks, Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi, Japan, perform a formation fly-by after completing their deployment aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) [not shown]. Kitty Hawk and embarked Carrier Air Wing 5 (CVW-5) are returning to their homeport after a scheduled deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR)")
A US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter aircraft, Strike Fighter Squadron 102 (VFA-102), Diamondbacks, Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan (JPN), over the edge as it launches from one of four steam powered catapults aboard USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63). The Diamondbacks are a new addition to Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) embarked aboard the HAWK, replacing the F-14A Tomcats fighter aircraft of Fighter Squadron 154 (VF-154). Currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), the HAWK is the United States only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan
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Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jason T. Poplin, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Fighter planes and military aircrafts.
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.
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