Two F/A-18C Hornet aircraft from Strike Fighter Squadron 82 (VFA-82) rendezvous with a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft for an in-flight refueling during Operation Desert Shield. VFA-82 is embarked aboard the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV-66).
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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD
Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)
Scene Camera Operator: LCDR Neubauer
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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