According to news site Stripes the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz has reached an important milestone with 350,000 aircraft landing on the deck using arresting cables in nearly 50 years of operation. ship’s movements.
This record was established on April 22 when an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft successfully landed on the deck of the USS Nimitz while it was deployed at sea. Dong.
“I am honored to establish this historical milestone for the ship. I would like to thank the previous landings of naval pilots,” said Captain Craig Sicola, Nimitz’s commanding officer and the main pilot of the fighter plane that landed on April 22.
Admiral Christopher Sweeney, commander of the 11th Aircraft Carrier Strike Group, said that this milestone shows the US’s commitment to exercising freedom of navigation and aviation anywhere in the world world to promote peace and security. p>
An arresting cable landing is when the aircraft contacts the aircraft carrier and hooks its tail onto one of the four cables arranged on the deck, allowing it to stop safely. The aircraft carrier’s deck is not long enough aircraft land in the usual way.
USS Nimitz is the US Navy’s first Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, put into service in 1975. It is currently the oldest aircraft carrier in the world. world is still active.
The ship belongs to the 11th Aircraft Carrier Strike Group stationed near Seattle, USA. It is on regularly scheduled deployment in the 7th Fleet area of operations in the South China Sea.
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