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Catapult [r]: A device for converting stored energy into a strong linear force [e]
Conventional takeoff and landing [r]: A carrier-capable aircraft that must be catapult-launched and will land with the tailhook & arresting wire system [e]
Carrier-capable [r]: An aircraft capable of catapult takeoffs and arrested landings on an aircraft carrier. [e]
Catapult Assisted Take Off But Arrested Recovery [r]: A set of technologies and procedures that allowed the operation of large, high-performance naval aircraft from carriers at sea [e]
Safety and survivability of naval vessels [r]: Beyond the rules of the Safety of Life at Sea convention, protective measures, for naval vessels, against their own systems as well as enemy fire [e]
Short takeoff and vertical landing [r]: A carrier-capable aircraft that takes a short takeoff, without catapulting but possibly a "ski jump" ramp, but lands vertically. [e]
Tailhook [r]: Hook on the underside of some aircraft which catches an arresting wire for short distance landings. [e]

Battle of Pearl Harbor [r]: The surprise attack on the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Japanese navy, which took place on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. [e]
Doolittle Raid [r]: The first U.S. offensive operation in the Pacific during the Second World War. [e]
Battle of Midway [r]: Generally considered to be the turning point of the Pacific Theater in the Second World War, a Japanese force intending to capture Midway Island was turned back with the loss of four aircraft carriers, at the cost of one U.S. carrier; it was the last major Japanese offensive of the war [e]
Battle of the Coral Sea [r]: Fought in May 1942, the first battle between naval forces built around aircraft carriers, in which the opposing United States and Japanese ships never saw one another; it was a tactical Japanese defeat and strategic U.S. victory [e]
Battle of the Philippine Sea [r]: An carrier battle between the U.S. and Japan in June 1944, called the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" due to the extremely heavy Japanese aircraft losses, marked the end of offensive Japanese capabilities, and gave the U.S. control of the islands from which the major B-29 bomber offensive against the Japanese Home Islands could be conducted [e]
Solomon Islands [r]: An island republic, part of the Commonwealth of Nations, min the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu; scene of much fighting in the Second World War [e]

Operation DESERT SHIELD [r]: That part of the Gulf War following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, beginning with the acceptance of Coalition support by Saudi Arabia, and ending with the start of the air campaign, Operation DESERT STORM. [e]
Operation FLAMING DART [r]: The first U.S. air attacks on North Vietnam, after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, but before the full Operation ROLLING THUNDER campaign [e]

E-2 Hawkeye [r]: Designed for the U.S. Navy and used by several other countries, this radar aircraft minimally carries out the airborne early warning function and a modest airborne warning and control system (AWACS), the latter enhanced by "virtual workstations" on linked ships [e]
F-18 Hornet [r]: A relatively lightweight carrier-capable multirole fighter, developed by the United States Navy and used by several nations, including Canada, in land-based roles; a fourth-generation fighter gradually being replaced by the F-18E/F Super Hornet, and then the F-35. [e]
F-18 Super Hornet [r]: A new generation of carrier-based fighter beyond the F-18 Hornet, this evolution provides an architecture with even greater expansion, especially with the AN/APG-79 AESA radar, more powerful computers and communications, and a new engine with longer range. [e]
F-35C Lightning II [r]: U.S. Navy version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, intended for carrier operations [e]
Sea Harrier [r]: Add brief definition or description
MiG-29K [r]: A Russian multirole fighter, designated FULCRUM by NATO, roughly comparable to the F-16 Fighting Falcon and F-18 Hornet; K version is carrier-capable [e]
Su-27K [r]: A Soviet/Russian air superiority fighter comparable to the U.S. F-15 Eagle, with many variants as well as export and co-production versions; K version is carrier-capable; Su-30 and Su-34 are derivatives [e]