Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – American aircraft from carriers and bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

The strategy is to buy or build 2 aircraft carriers ( 40, 000 tonnes ), 4 LHD ( 20, 000 tonnes ), 30 escort ships, 15 submarines, 5 nuclear submarines and 62 ( patrol ships ).

Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.

Indeed, during the Battle of Midway, five aircraft carriers were sunk without either fleet coming into direct contact.

Aircraft carriers have since become the central unit in naval warfare, acting as a mobile base for lethal aircraft.

Special variants called aircraft catapults are used to launch planes from land bases and sea carriers when the takeoff runway is too short for a powered takeoff or simply impractical to extend.

During the first and second World Wars, several battleships and aircraft carriers were built with a " clipper bow " for improved hydrodynamic efficiency.

Because the Soviet Union had no large carriers of its own, a situation of dueling aircraft carriers would have been unlikely.

However, carriers have been called upon to be first responders even when conventional land based aircraft were employed.

In the new system, all hull classification symbols are at least two letters ; for basic types the symbol is the first letter of the type name, doubled, except for aircraft carriers.

Today's Marina Militare is a modern navy with a strength of 35, 261 and ships of every type, such as aircraft carriers, destroyers, modern frigates, submarines, amphibious ships and other smaller ships such as oceanographic research ships.

The most successful plane had been the British design, and indeed experiments in Britain had been proceeding with the support of Winston Churchill, including converting initially ferries and liners into aircraft tenders and aircraft carriers.

Under the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ( 1978 – 1992 ), weapon deliveries by the Soviets were increased and included Mi-24 helicopters, MiG-23 fighter aircraft, ZSU-23-4 " Shilka " and ZSU-57-2 anti-aircraft self-propelled mounts, MT-LB armored personnel carriers, BM-27 " Uragan " and BM-21 " Grad " multiple-launch rocket systems and FROG-7 and Scud launchers.

Between 1918 and 1920, NNS delivered 25 destroyers, and after the war, NNS began building aircraft carriers.

By 1940, the Navy had ordered seven more aircraft carriers and four cruisers.

In the 1980s, NNS produced a variety of Navy products, including Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carriers and Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarines.

* Yorktown class aircraft carriers:

* Essex class aircraft carriers:

* Midway class aircraft carriers:

* Forrestal class aircraft carriers:

* All ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers:

* nuclear-powered aircraft carriers:

A machine gun is a fully automatic emplaceable weapon, most often separated from other classes of automatic weapon by the use of belt-fed ammunition ( though some designs employ drum, pan or hopper magazines ), generally in a rifle-inspired caliber ranging between 5. 56 × 45mm NATO (. 223 Remington ) for a light machine gun to as large as. 50 BMG or even more larger for crewed or aircraft weapons.

He showed an interest in aeronautics from an early age, and he collected magazines and pictures about aviation, in addition to making model aircraft and his own propeller.

The aircraft also appeared in a series of " action shot " photographs in various magazines like Der Adler, including claims that it had proven itself in combat in Denmark and Norway.

During World War II, the company specialised in making aircraft ; Horsa glider fuselages ; specialist army vehicles ; hydraulic motors for gun turrets ; ammunition boxes, magazines for machine guns, tommy guns, Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns ; marine engines for ships lifeboats ; and pressings for jerrycans.

Various methods where used to secure the magazines in the aircraft, while a carrier of 3 mags each were used on ground.

There are a number of pictures showing the guns, both aircraft and ground versions, with 25rd magazines from the MG 13 but the magazines don't actually work with the MG 15.

Pictures of low flying aircraft were published in several news magazines worldwide in early 2000.

Examples are in public utilities, making military aircraft and accessories, or where the investment and risk for a proprietorship would be too great for a much needed project impossible to achieve by any means other than the corporate form, e.g. constructing major airports or dams.

It is not clear, however, whether they are thinking of all movable property or only of boats, trailers, aircraft or certain other types of personal property whose assessment would be advantageous to their particular towns.

The decreases, which are largely in construction and in aircraft procurement, are offset in part by increases for research and development and for procurement of other military equipment such as tanks, vehicles, guns, and electronic devices.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

However, the aircraft which we have today are tied to large, `` soft '' airfields.

Here then is our problem: aircraft are vital to winning a war today because they can perform those missions which a missile is totally incapable of performing ; ;

There are four rather obvious ways to reduce or eliminate the vulnerability of aircraft on the ground:

Put aircraft in `` bomb-proof '' hangars when they are on the ground.

If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.

The reason that we are not going ahead full speed to develop high thrust-to-weight engines is that it would cost perhaps a billion dollars -- and you don't spend that sort of money if aircraft are obsolete.

When aircraft are no longer helpless on airfields, they are no longer vulnerable to Aj.

This means the aircraft companies are going to tear into the government market, looking for anything they can get and making the competition tough.

* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.

There are also reports that 50 combat aircraft from the disbanded 19th Army of the Soviet Air Defence Forces came under Azeri control.

Helicopter pads are available at 27 stations ; runways at 15 locations are gravel, sea-ice, blue-ice, or compacted snow suitable for landing wheeled, fixed-wing aircraft ; of these, 1 is greater than 3 km in length, 6 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 3 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 3 are less than 1 km in length, and 2 are of unknown length ; snow surface skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing aircraft, are available at another 15 locations ; of these, 4 are greater than 3 km in length, 3 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 2 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 2 are less than 1 km in length, and data is unavailable for the remaining 4.