Photos Aircraft Carriers

[Unknowncommando]

USS Carl Vinson

 

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USSR
The Soviet kyiv-class/Project 1143 aircraft-carrying cruisers Krechyet Minsk and Novorossiysk were stored and decommissioned, awaiting sale for scrap in the mid-1990s. The Minsk was purchased by a group of Chinese investors to become a museum, while the Novorossiysk was scrapped in Pohang, South Korea, in 1997.

 

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The former Indian aircraft carrier INS Viraat (formerly HMS Hermes) with its embarked air group consisting of Sea Harrier FRS.51 and Sea King

 

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thanks to @BravoZulu

A Douglas AD Skyraider from VA-55 "Torpcats" burns after a mishap between it and mull tractor gas tank on the flight deck of USS Essex (CVA-9). The pilot escaped from the plane, but left the engine running. An airman (ATAN) jumped into the cockpit and turned the engine off. He suffered second degree burns. 18 March 1954

 

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Indian Navy's INS Vikrant

 

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One last ride...

 

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TCG Anadolu (L400)

 

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Italian Navy

 

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The state of the superstructure of the former Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk after the fire it suffered last year in China. The superstructure appears to have suffered severe fire damage, a common occurrence on modern warships.

 

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The hangar of HMS Queen Elizabeth, with four F-35B Lightning IIs.

 

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US Navy:

USS Independence underway during the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.

 

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A port amidships view of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41). Three F-4 Phantom II aircraft that were damaged when the carrier collided with the Panamanian freighter CACTUS are on the deck in 1980.

 

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