Two A-7E Corsair aircraft from Attack Squadron 46 (VA-46) fall in behind an Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft while on a training flight following the cease-fire between coalition and Iraqi forces. The aircraft at right is carrying an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on its starboard fuselage pylon. VA-46 is based aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67), which is operating in the Red Sea
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Country: Red Sea
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Chester O. Falkenhainer
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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Date
07/03/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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