carrier-borne aircraft

As usual with carrier-borne aircraft, the wings folded at the centre section.

"No, it is not the case that carrier-borne aircraft are necessary to do such a thing," Hague said.

She was sunk by American carrier-borne aircraft in July 1943.

But the relative safety of binary chemical warheads would make them acceptable for use on carrier-borne aircraft.

Carrier-borne aircraft could increase the area searched for U-boats, but made the carriers tempting targets.

Israel was the first export customer, its four Hawkeyes were delivered during 1981, complete with the folding wings characteristic of carrier-borne aircraft.

The report says that China has an aircraft carrier research and design programme, and is interested in buying carrier-borne aircraft from Russia.

For carrier-borne aircraft, landing with the armed weapon was forbidden and the aircraft would instead be diverted to a shore-base.

On 19 February 1942, Japan launched a massive and devastating attack on Darwin by carrier-borne aircraft.

The Japanese force was attacked, stopped, and almost destroyed by United States carrier-borne aircraft before reaching Okinawa.

In 2009, it launched the Sea Gripen project in response to India's request for information on a carrier-borne aircraft.

Options such as cruise missiles launched from carrier-borne aircraft or a land-based ballistic missile system are quickly dismissed because of their vulnerability to pre-emptive attack.

Atkinson flew his Hellcat as a combat air patrol during carrier-borne aircraft attacks against the oil refineries at Palembang.

In addition, carrier-borne aircraft and helicopters, as well as land-based aircraft assigned to sea battle zones, will no longer deploy nuclear weapons.

She was scuttled following damage inflicted by US carrier-borne aircraft in mid-Atlantic, in May 1943.

With more than 100 carrier-borne aircraft and 200 aircrew it was the Royal Navy's biggest single airborne operation in the Second World War.

She was sunk by British carrier-borne aircraft and a British warship southeast of Greenland in April 1943.

The blow struck by carrier-borne aircraft at the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was only one enterprise of many.

Victory in the Pacific (50 mins) features much carrier-borne aircraft footage, with camera gun film of the airborne dogfights between Hellcats and Zeros.

Carrier-based aircraft, sometimes known as carrier-capable aircraft or carrier-borne aircraft, are naval aircraft designed specifically for operations from aircraft carriers.

(At the same time, in another part of the Pacific, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft were bombing the US fleet at Pearl Harbor.)

The Swordfish pioneered the use of air to surface vessel radar (ASV) by carrier-borne aircraft to locate surface ships at night and through clouds.

Shortly afterwards, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft attacked the Marine installations on Midway, marking the start of the Battle of Midway.

The United States Navy reported Wednesday that American carrier-borne aircraft had badly damaged an Iraqi tanker and destroyed three armed Hovercraft in the gulf.

US Navy carrier-borne aircraft also attacked Japanese air units based at Mindanao and mounted further attacks on Halmahera and Celebes.