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A US Navy (USN) EA-6B Prowler, Electronic Attack Squadron 136 (VAQ-136), Gauntlets, Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi, Japan (JPN), makes an arresting landing on the flight deck aboard the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63). The KITTY HAWK is currently operating in the Coral Sea in support the combined Exercise TALISMAN SABRE 2005. TALISMAN SABRE is an exercise jointly sponsored by the US Pacific Command (USPACOM) and Australian Defense Force Joint Operations Command, and designed to train the US 7th Fleet Commander's staff and Australian Joint Operations staff as a designated Combined Task Force (CTF) headquarters. The exercise focuses on crisis action planning and execution...
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[Complete] Scene Caption: A US Navy (USN) EA-6B Prowler, Electronic Attack Squadron 136 (VAQ-136), Gauntlets, Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi, Japan (JPN), makes an arresting landing on the flight deck aboard the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63). The KITTY HAWK is currently operating in the Coral Sea in support of the combined Exercise TALISMAN SABRE 2005. TALISMAN SABRE is an exercise jointly sponsored by the US Pacific Command (USPACOM) and Australian Defense Force Joint Operations Command, and designed to train the US 7th Fleet Commander's staff and Australian Joint Operations staff as a designated Combined Task Force (CTF) headquarters. The exercise focuses on crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations. USPACOM units and Australian forces will conduct land, sea and air training throughout the training area. More than 11,000 US and 6,000 Australian personnel will participate.
Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Joshua Legrand, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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