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An Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) S-3A Viking aircraft is launched from the No. 3 catapult aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69). The aircraft is armed with a Mark 82 high-drag bomb. Note: Second view in a series of four

An Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) S-3A Viking aircraft is launched from the No. 3 catapult aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69). The aircraft is armed with a Mark 82 high-drag bomb. Note: Third view in a series of four

An Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) S-3A Viking aircraft is launched from the No. 3 catapult aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69). The aircraft is armed with a Mark 82 high-drag bomb. Note: Fourth view in a series of four

An Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) S-3A Viking aircraft is launched from the No. 1 catapult aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69). Note: First view in a series of four

An Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) S-3A Viking aircraft is launched from the No. 1 catapult aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69). Note: Third view in a series of four

An Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) S-3A Viking aircraft is launched from the No. 1 catapult aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69). Note: Fourth view in a series of four

An Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) S-3A Viking aircraft is launched from the No. 1 catapult aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69). Note: Second view in a series of four

An Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) S-3A Viking aircraft is launched from one of the waist catapults aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69)

An Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) S-3A Viking aircraft is launched from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

An Air Anti-submarine Squadron 31 (VS-31) S-3A Viking aircraft prepares to be launched from the No. 3 catapult aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69). The aircraft is armed with a Mark 82 high-drag bomb. Note: First view in a series of four

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Base: USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69)

Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Scene Camera Operator: CWO Patrick Wilkerson

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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Aviation ordnancemen load Mark 82 500-pound retarded delivery bombs onto the wing pylon of an A-6E Intruder aircraft aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

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