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USS Forrestal: The Navy's First 'Super' Aircraft Carrier was a Game Changer

The Forrestal-class carriers, monumental in the evolution of U.S. naval aviation, were a response to the advent of carrier-based jet aircraft, necessitating larger decks and more fuel and munitions storage. ....

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USS Forrestal: America's First Super Aircraft Carrier Has a Storied History

In 1948, the country’s first secretary of defense, James Forrestal, ordered the USS United States, a supercarrier displacing seventy thousand tons designed to carry up to eighteen large strategic bombers off its deck. ....

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Step Aboard the USS Forrestal: America's First 'Super' Aircraft Carrier

An auspicious start for a ship that experienced so many accidents. ....

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This Aircraft Carrier Was a Game Changer For One Armored Reason

Like the preceding Midway-class, Forrestal had an armored flight deck but its deck was more robustly integrated as a load-bearing element of the hull rather than as a superstructure. ....

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Meet USS Forrestal: America's First Supercarrier was Unlike Any Other

Forrestals were decommissioned one-by-one between 1993 and 1998 but stayed busy right until then. In 1993,
Ranger deployed off of Somalia and provided photo reconnaissance, logistics and air support for Operation Restore Hope as it faced opposition from warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid.
As the United States prepares to deliver its second one-hundred-thousand-ton
Gerald Ford-class supercarrier later in 2019, it’s easy to forget that until the mid-1950s the Navy’s carriers displaced between a third or half that much.
The
Midway-class carriers built during World War II were designed to launch smaller, slower piston-engine warbirds. But a new generation of carrier-based jet aircraft took up more deck space, required longer decks to takeoff and land, and consumed more fuel. ....

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