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US Navy Aviation Boatswain Mate (Launch and Recovery Equipment Operator) 3rd Class (AB3) Joshua Schwandt signals a clear launch of an F-14 Tomcat from the ships port side catapult. Aboard the conventional aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62) which is forward deployed in the Persian Gulf to enforce UN sanctions against Iraq during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 22 February 1998

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US Navy Aviation Boatswain Mate (Launch and Recovery Equipment Operator) 3rd Class (AB3) Joshua Schwandt signals a clear launch of an F-14 Tomcat from the ships port side catapult. Aboard the conventional aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62) which is forward deployed in the Persian Gulf to enforce UN sanctions against Iraq during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 22 February 1998

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Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH

Base: USS Independence (CV 62)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Brian J. Hoosack, USN

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation, single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF). The result of the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, the aircraft was designed primarily as an air superiority fighter, but also with ground attack, electronic warfare, and signal intelligence capabilities. The prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, built most of the F-22's airframe and weapons systems and conducted final assembly, while Boeing provided the wings, aft fuselage, avionics integration, and training systems. USAF officials consider the F-22 a critical component of the service's tactical air power. Its combination of stealth, aerodynamic performance, and situational awareness enable unprecedented air combat capabilities and originally planned to buy a total of 750 aircrafts, but in 2009, the program was cut to 187 operational production aircraft due to high costs, a lack of clear air-to-air missions due to delays in Russian and Chinese fighter programs, a ban on exports, and development of the more versatile F-35. The last F-22 was delivered in 2012.

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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22/02/1998
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