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

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.

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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

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

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#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.

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[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.

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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."

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

To give a more serious answer to that earlier question about whether any Presidents were able to fly, yes, there were three who were trained as pilots.

The most famous is indeed George H.W. Bush, who was the youngest U.S. Navy aviator during World War II, and flew 58 combat missions in the Pacific during the war. He was shot down during a bombing mission over Chichi Jima, an island in an archipelago between Guam and the Japanese mainland in September 1944 and had to be rescued from the Pacific Ocean by an American submarine. That was just a few months after he was also forced to ditch his TMB Avenger bomber in the ocean -- while it still was fully loaded with the bombs for the mission he was on -- and barely escaped the plane before it exploded.

His son, George W. Bush, had a much-less decorated and much-more maligned military "career", but he was trained as a military aviator in the Texas National Guard. Bush 43's most famous flight was as a passenger while President when he landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln for the infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech, but he was definitely a trained pilot.

The first President to earn a pilot's license was actually Dwight D. Eisenhower. Despite his background as a career military officer, Eisenhower was not trained as a military aviator -- he earned a private pilot's license in 1939.

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

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

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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.

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Suez Canal

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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.

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

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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.

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(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