Facts on U.S. Aircraft Carriers
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The Navy is fond of noting that each of its 12 aircraft carriers is a floating air base &#151; four acres of U.S. territory from which warplanes can operate free of foreign constraints.
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A US firm is to be handed the project management contract for two Royal Navy aircraft carriers.
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Poland's Navy said Thursday that it has identified a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea as almost certainly being Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin &#151; a find that promises to shed light on a 59-year-old mystery surrounding the ship's fate.
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The America's Cup, boat-rate shipping and a topless T38 R.
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America's major wars and the length of U.S. participation:
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A fighter jet takes off from an aircraft carrier and a missile is launched from its deck as a voice says in a television commercial: "When America goes ashore, Northrop Grumman is right there. Maritime superiority. Northrop Grumman, defining the future."
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US Navy came close to firing on 'attack craft' over weekend, CNN reports
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By Jon W. Glass, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 18--NEWPORT NEWS -- The search for a weapon that could knock down an incoming cruise missile drew the Navy. A possible cure for adult acne attracted a Harvard dermatologist.
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marking the first time that a commercial American airliner will be landing in the country since the Vietnam War. and businessmen. It will show ties are on track between the old battlefield foes who still spar over human rights and.
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In the shadow of the enormous gray bow of the USS George H.W. Bush, the Bush family on Saturday christened the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after the 82-year-old former president.
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From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars and could cause environmental misery that will cost millions more.
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The U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet said two F/A-18 fighter aircraft crashed during operations in the Gulf on Monday, but there were no fatalities.
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The first of two ships carrying weapons-grade plutonium from the United States has docked in France. The British-registered Pacific Pintail is said to be carrying enough plutonium to make 40 nuclear bombs.
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US Navy AZ2 (Aviation Admin. Man 2nd class) Marco Moreno, right, from Ontario CA, and US Navy Sgt Edward Brewer, center, from Baytown, TX wait to be served turkey by catering contractor Daniel Decrvez, left
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The historic aircraft carrier USS Intrepid is fresh from a body scrub and makeover, including a stem-to-stern painting with 7,000 gallons of traditional naval haze-gray &#151; enough to cover about 400 large houses.
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Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a weakened and outnumbered U.S. fleet limped north to confront a flotilla of Japanese ships advancing on the remote Pacific atoll of Midway.
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The U.S. Navy on Friday gave a transatlantic team led by Lockheed Martin Corp.  a &#36;1.7 billion contract to build a new fleet of 23 U.S. presidential helicopters, a deal valued at up to &#36;6.1 billion.