Aircraft carrier
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An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to carry, launch, recover and support aircraft at sea, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities that allow it to serve as a mobile, seago
Three steam catapult equipped aircraft carriers of various types—USS John C. Stennis, Charles de Gaulle (French Navy), USS John F. Kennedy along with the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean—and escort vessels, 2002
Chinese PLAN's electromagnetic catapult equipped aircraft carrier Fujian transiting the East China Sea, September 2025
Indian ski-jump based aircraft carriers INS Vikrant and INS Vikramaditya, June 2023
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (rear) and US Navy carrier USS Ronald Reagan conducting joint operations in the Persian Gulf, each with the CATOBAR configuration
Naval aviation
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Naval aviation is the application of military air power by navies, either from warships that can embark aircraft or from coastal naval air stations. It often involves navalised aircraft, specifically
An F/A-18C Hornet launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk.
Mayfly was built in 1908 and was the first powered aircraft to be used in a naval capacity.
Lieutenant Charles Samson's historic takeoff from Hibernia in 1912.
Japanese Maurice Farman seaplane from Wakamiya