#USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

[coldwarairforce]

An F-14A Tomcat aircraft taxies along the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)

#F-14 #F-14A #Tomcat #CVN-69 #USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

[lonestarflight]

A long exposure shoot of a Grumman F-14 Tomcat being catapulted from the flight deck during night operations aboard USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) on September 29, 1987.

NARA: 6429739

#Grumman F-14 Tomcat #F-14 #Fighter #USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) #USS Dwight D. Eisenhower #Nimitz class #Aircraft Carrier #September #1987 #United States Navy #U.S. Navy #USN #US Navy #Navy #my post

[thepianomaker]

F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the "Gunslingers" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 105 during flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Red Sea

#US Navy #F/A-18E #Super Hornet #USS Dwight D. Eisenhower #CVN-69 #Aircraft Carrier #Attack Aircraft

[mystical-marlin]

Waiting on pier 88 for a cruise, staring at the Intrepid, and realizing how SMALL it is compared to the newer carriers.

The intrepid is 873 feet long.

200 feet shorter than the Eisenhower

300 feet shorter than the Ford

The beam of the Intrepid is 147 feet, 105 feet narrower than both the Eisenhower and the Ford.

The Intrepid’s displacement is 36,000 long tons

65,600 long tons LESS than the Eisenhower

She’s just so little in comparison to the newer classes

#aircraft carrier #USS Intrepid #USS Dwight D Eisenhower #uss gerald r. ford #marlins words

[ricisidro]

WATCH Real Life #TopGun ✈️

#USSDwightDEisenhower deploys all its fighter planes to the battlefield to carry out a mission. The ship is scheduled to provide national command authorities with a flexible and adaptable war fighting capability to maintain maritime stability and ensure access, deter aggression, and defend the interests of US, and allied partners.

#USA #Gaza #IsraeliAirForce #Mediterranean

#USS Dwight D Eisenhower #USA #Israeli Air Force #Gaza #Mediterranean #Instagram

[sayruq]

[CONT] call, prompting aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to come to its aid, dispatching helicopters to deal with approaching Yemeni Navy vessels

If the US and the UK go through with this plan, the Yemenis will bomb oilfields across the Gulf. This is will increase global oil prices significantly and ultimately tanking the global economy. If you thought life is hard now, you're not ready for how bad things will get in 2024.

All Joe Biden has to do to stop the Red Sea blockade is lift the siege on Gaza.

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #regional war #global economy #at the very least this will continue to turn the world against israel and america

[zvaigzdelasas]

[BBC is UK State Media]

The BBC is the first British media to visit the USS Dwight D Eisenhower since it began this mission in November.

"This is deadly stuff," says Captain Dave Wroe, who commands the four US Navy destroyers which provide the extra protection for the carrier.

It arrived soon after Yemen's Houthi's began to target merchant vessels - they say in response to Israel's assault on Gaza.

Captain Wroe lists the threats they've been facing over the past four months: anti-ship ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned surface vessels, and now unmanned underwater vessels, or UUVs, all loaded with explosives.

UUVs are the latest threat. He says the F-18 jets on board the carrier have recently destroyed UUVs, before they could be launched.

Captain Wroe says the Houthis have posed the greatest challenge to the US Navy in recent history.

"This is the most since World War Two," he says [sic]. That was the last time the US operated in an area where they could be fired upon every day.

The tempo of operations on the aircraft carrier itself has also been unrelenting - with dozens of sorties being flown round the clock.[...]

Up in the carrier's flight control tower, Commander George Zintac, known as the Air Boss, is having to choreograph their movements - with a jet either launching or landing in just over a minute.

He's been in the US Navy for more than 30 years, but says "this is probably the most flying I've done on a deployment - everyday we're flying a tonne".[...]

Unlike the Houthis, they're away from home with few creature comforts. Every meal on board is literally feeding the five thousand. The food bill on the carrier alone is $2m (£1.6m) a month.

Captain Chris Hill, the commanding officer of Ike, says "people need breaks, they need to go home".

But he says they don't yet have dates for when that'll happen. So one of his tasks is to maintain the crews morale and resilience.[...]

Captain Hill says: "It's difficult to define winning and losing in this kind of conflict."

18 Mar 24

[judgemark45]

The aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69), in the Persian Gulf, 7/9/2000.. Camera Operator: PHC Greg Mccreash, USN

[nocternalrandomness]

"Launch Prep"

A-7E Corsair II of VA-72 aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower - 26 February 1988

#A-7 #Corsair II #Attack aircraft #USN #Flight deck #Aircraft carrier #Military #Aviation

[usafphantom2]

An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the Wildcats of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 131 lands aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. (schneider)

@kadonkey via X

#f 18 hornet #us navy #boeing aviation

[voskhozhdeniye]

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group has transited the Straits of Gibraltar and is racing to join the USS Gerald R. Ford CSG in the eastern Mediterranean. When it arrives, the US/NATO will have assembled a fleet of no fewer than 73 ships, including the 30+ NATO ships taking part in the Dynamic Mariner exercises off the coast of Italy. This is, I believe, the largest US/NATO assemblage of warships in at least the past half-century. In addition to the many support ships, the following major warships are present: — 2 US supercarriers (Ford and Eisenhower) — 2 VTOL aircraft carriers (USS Bataan and ITS Cavour) — 2 Guided-missile cruisers — 11 Guided-missile destroyers — Several frigates There are also undoubtedly a large number of submarines present, each one of which packs substantial stand-off firepower. I will once again emphasize that this fleet is not being assembled in order to assist the Israelis in their ongoing project to destroy HAMAS and the 2.5 million inhabitants of Gaza. In my view, this powerful fleet can have only one possible mission: to eradicate all Russian, Iranian, and Iranian-affiliated military power currently present in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. Needless to say, these are extremely portentous developments that entail great risk of plunging the world into the biggest and most destructive war in human history.

#The crumbling empire has entered its cornered animal phase. #As I said yesterday. #Their arrogance is going to be the death of us here and abroad. #I've been sitting here for 20 minutes trying to figure out if I want to hit post now or not.

[dangerousthingobservation]

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Suez Canal

[workersolidarity]

🇺🇸⚔️🇾🇪 🚨

U.S. AND COALITION FORCES LAUNCH STRIKES ON YEMEN, NO CHANGE FROM ANSAR ALLAH

📹 Scenes from the results of U.S. and coalition forces missile strikes in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital on Saturday at 11:50pm, launched by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower along with forces from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand and the Netherlands according to a statement from United States Central Command (CENTCOM).

According to CENTCOM, U.S forces launched "strikes against 18 Houthi targets in Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist-controlled areas of Yemen."

CENTCOM added that it targeted "areas used by the Houthis to attack international merchant vessels and naval ships in the region," and accuses Houthi attacks of "disrupting humanitarian aid bound for Yemen, harmed Middle Eastern economies, and caused environmental damage."

The United States has no comments on the environmental damage posed to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip where Israeli fighter jets have dropped 69'000 tons of explosives on civilians and infrastructure in Gaza, nor condemnation for Israel's ongoing genocide.

#source1

#source2

#videosource

@WorkerSolidarityNews

#yemen #yemen news #yemeni news #middle east #united states #us armed forces #us forces #us military #us news #us politics #us foreign policy #us wars #us imperialism #us colonialism #israeli genocide #genocide in gaza #genocide of palestinians #war on gaza #gaza #israel #politics #news #geopolitics #world news #global news #international news #war #palestine #breaking news #current events

[planesawesome]

(6/1/1978) An air to air right side view of an Corsair II aircraft.A-7E Corsair II (VA-12 / CVW-7) embarked on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) USN Image

[ricisidro]

Watch: Real Life #TopGun ✈️

#Pentagon deployed 2 aircraft carriers -- and their supporting ships -- to the eastern #Mediterranean since the #Hamas's attacks on #Israel on 7 Oct 2023.

📸 #USSGeraldRFord

Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (CSG) arrived in the #MediterraneanSea on Oct 12. #USNavy aircraft carrier #USSDwightDEisenhower (IKE) arrived in the Mediterranean on Oct 18 and joined the Ford CSG.

YouTube:

#Israel #Hamas #Pentagon #uss gerald r. ford #USS Dwight D Eisenhower #US Navy #Mediterranean Sea #Instagram

[thatsrightice]

I’ve been doing a LOT of digging on what path the Top Gun pilots would have taken prior to the events of the movie, specifically Iceman of course, but I found some information regarding the squadrons that Iceman and Maverick would have been apart of directly prior to TOPGUN.

In a preliminary script for “Top Gun”, Maverick speaks to Iceman saying, “You were in 124 with Bargamian.” In Maverick’s line, 124 refers to the VF-124 Gunfighters, a fleet replacement squadron (FRS). Iceman would have been assigned to the F-14 Tomcat and VF-124 in the selection after flight school, and Bargamian is likely a reference to the last name of a pilot Maverick had likely known well. The squadron was located in NAS Miramar, California, and in 1972 the squadron became responsible for training pilots and RIOs in the F-14A Tomcat in the Pacific. These training fleet replacement squadrons would fly out to aircraft carriers to fly day and night carrier qualifications.

In the movie, however, Iceman wears a patch for VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet. This means that he was likely reassigned to VFA-25 for deployment. What is interesting about this is that the squadron never flew the F-14 Tomcat, rather, they only flew configurations of the F/A-18 Hornet. VFA-25 was based out of NAS Lemoore, CA, and was in Carrier Air Wing CVW-14 at the time of the movie. They deployed on the USS Constellation from February 1985 to August 1985, and from September 1986 to October 1986. Their next deployment wouldn’t depart until April of 1987.

In the movie’s opening scene, Maverick and Cougar use the flight callsign ‘Ghostrider,’ the callsign for a real F-14 squadron (VF-142). In the early 1980s, VF-142 was deployed several times on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower as a part of Carrier Air Wing CVW-7 flying F-14s. They deployed from April 1980 to December 1980, from January 1982 to July 1982, from April 1983 to December 1983, from May 1984 to May 1985, and from July 1985 to September 1985. Then they had an extended turnaround while the ship returned to the shipyard for an extensive overhaul and did not deploy again until 1987 with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

However, you may notice that Maverick’s patch is NOT for VF-142. The patch has VF-1 written, referring to the F-14 Tomcat fighter squadron known as the Wolfpack. The Wolfpack deployed on the USS Ranger from January 1982 to February 1982 and from April 1982 to October 1982. Then they deployed on the USS Kitty Hawk from January 1984 to August 1984 before returning to the USS Ranger from May 1986 to July 1986. They deployed again on the USS Ranger from August 1986 to October 1986 and from March 1987 to April 1987.

But this does not match the logo for the squadron, rather, the patch’s logo depicts a bird in flight. Aircraft from the NAS Miramar-based squadron VF-51 Screaming Eagles and VF-111 Sundowners were repainted in fictitious markings for the film. One could presume that the logo is meant to be a nod to the VF-51 Screaming Eagles. The Screaming Eagles flew off the USS Kitty Hawk in 1981 but transferred to the east coast following an accident that killed a deckhand from the squadron and injured an aircraft’s crew when an A-7E Corsair II from VA-22 struck one of VF-51s aircraft. They flew off of the new USS Carl Vinson from March 1983 to October 1983 as the ship traveled to its homeport in California. VF-51 is the first F-14 squadron to intercept several Soviet aircraft including an armed MiG-23. The squadron cruised with the USS Carl Vinson from 1986 to 1987.

Obviously, we know that Top Gun was filmed on the USS Enterprise, so this is another inaccuracy regarding his squadron. The USS Enterprise sailed with CVW-11 many times in the early 1980s. They deployed from September 1982 to April 1983, May 1984 to December 1984, from January 1986 to August 1986, from January 1988 to July 1988, and from September 1989 to March 1990. CVW-11 consisted of VFA-14 Tophatters, VFA-41 Black Aces, VFA-86 Sidewinders, and VFA-97 Warhawks.

Basically, none of it will paint you a clear and accurate picture. Obviously, I didn’t expect it to be accurate in terms of dates or aircraft carriers lining up and overall accuracy, but the patches and bars on their uniforms would have been nice. I’ve been trying to put together a timeline for Iceman’s career prior to TOPGUN but it’s a little hard when they don’t flesh out a character with a complete and fool proof backstory. I mean, Val Kilmer had to come up with his own headcanon in order to play his character with at least a little bit of depth.

EDIT: you can find a lot of information on different Naval squadrons using the website seaforces.org, they’ll give you info regarding their deployments and what carriers they were on and what planes they flew. Also, Wikipedia is legitimately a great starting place in terms of research :)

#TLDR; top gun is not accurate #I like research #I go too far sometimes (a lot of the time) #questioning of military accuracy #I am putting together a timeline of his life for my fic because I’m extra #I want to add details from his past with other characters like what sports did he play at the academy #expect more in depth research on iceman’s career prior to top gun to come #is he or is he not Russian? like is it important to my plot? I haven’t decided #tom kazansky #pete mitchell #top gun: maverick #top gun #iceman #top gun maverick #top gun iceman #Maverick #info dump #research #mine #I like planes #just a little thing I wrote #reference