In 1967, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal was damaged by fire, killing 130.
Its navy last year commissioned its first aircraft carrier, and it is reportedly building two more.
The sequester cuts will delay the deployment of an aircraft carrier at a crucial time.
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Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is the first of two 65, 000-tonne ships under construction in Scotland.
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The Bush administration has sent another aircraft carrier to the region as a warning to Iran.
The deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf has also been cancelled.
So this is already a jumbo jet attempting to take off from an aircraft carrier.
As a first order of business, we should reposition an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean.
We currently have an aircraft carrier in Japan, and another is on its way.
True, they have an aircraft carrier, the 25 de Mayo, as Chile does not.
An aircraft carrier and 20 other warships are there, plus more than 170 military aircraft.
China is also reportedly close to deploying its first aircraft carrier, a refitted ex-Soviet ship.
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"It's the difference between turning around a PT boat and an aircraft carrier, " says Rodriguez.
"An aircraft carrier is an extremely complex piece of machinery with lots of moving parts, " he explained.
The rushed, Treasury-driven defence review left Britain without aircraft flying from an aircraft carrier for a decade.
There are huge models of ships scattered throughout the restaurant, including an aircraft carrier in the lobby.
In fact, American pilots even flew French fighter jets off a French aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean.
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The combatant commanders request aircraft carrier presence the same way they request ground troops or aircraft deployments.
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Work starts on five more in 2001 -- including a submarine and the country's first aircraft carrier.
The development of an aircraft carrier has long been promoted as a symbol of rising national strength.
DC, the air wing of an aircraft carrier could attack 200 targets in one day in 1991.
Mr Hammond later visited Rosyth where he saw work being carried out on aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.
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It was one of the first ships to be converted to an aircraft carrier during World War I.
During the Kosovo war, America sent to the Mediterranean the only aircraft carrier permanently assigned to the Pacific.
One of the Navy's premier warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pier-side in Norfolk, Va.
It remained on the aircraft carrier until 2007 and was then moved to a storage facility in Connecticut.
The war's main aircraft carrier, HMS Hermes, was about to be decommissioned as unsuitable for fighting Soviet submarines.
Babcock, which is part of the UK Aircraft Carrier Alliance, secured the deal for the carriers in July 2007.
The USS Kitty Hawk , normally the only US aircraft carrier stationed in the western Pacific, has joined it.
None of the sailors I talked to seemed to have anything to do with being on an aircraft carrier.
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