The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman conducts flight operations in the Middle East region.
On this day in 1943, USS Gato surfaced to find an unexploded Japanese depth charge on the deck. Because the charge could not be rolled into the water for fear of it detonating, it was lifted into a life raft that had a slow leak and then placed in the path of a pursuing destroyer.
An image from last month shows dry dock maintenance being done at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, which will ensure that the ship can continue serving as a museum!
Berthed in the Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL, before a series of early aviation tests, USN armoured cruiser North Carolina had a catapult prototype installed on her afterdeck. Current status: Scrapped in 1930-32, lifespan of 27 years. September 1915.
HMS Dauntless Phalanx CIWS undergoing pre-deployment checks with radome removed. Upper Ku-band moving track indicator (MTI) radar aerial visible rotating.
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