In flight view of a US Air Force (USAF) B-2 Spirit Bomber, 509th Bomb Wing (BW), Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB), Missouri (MO), taken from the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75) as it passes over the flight deck during Fleet Week 2002 Air and Sea festivities in Broward County

The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy penetration strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses; it is a flying wing design with a crew of two.

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.