Carriers can operate freely from international waters, while land-based aircraft cannot easily fly in a war zone unless a nearby country offers a base.
If the program of record for the fighter unfolds as planned, Boeing will be squeezed out of the market for new carrier-based aircraft and Lockheed will dominate.
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Prior to selection for carrier command, captains must serve as the commanding officer of a carrier-based aircraft squadron, complete Navy Nuclear Power training and serve as a carrier executive officer.
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The carrier-based Prowler aircraft that jammed Taliban ground communications have their origins in the Korean War.
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Mr Hammond said that the Lightning II squadron based at RAF Marham would be a joint RAF and Royal Navy force and the station would be responsible for support and maintenance of both land-based and aircraft carrier planes.
The Navy is developing N-UCAS as a stealthy, carrier-based unmanned aircraft that would allow Carrier Strike Groups to operate effectively from outside the envelope of enemy missile threats and could act as a prime hunter against missiles and their launchers before and after launch.
The collection was introduced in March at the Baselworld trade fair in Basel, Switzerland, along with a cross-marketing campaign in the U.S. and Europe with U.S.-based airplane manufacturer Cessna Aircraft and Swiss-based private air service company, PrivatAir.
Waverley council has given planning permission for the aircraft based at Dunsfold Aerodrome to operate at night.
In Scotland, the government funds two helicopters and two fixed-wing aircraft based in Glasgow, Inverness and Aberdeen.
The company uses 138 aircraft based on 114 locations for such community-based services.
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That requires not surgical strikes by aircraft based in the United States, but expeditionary forces with extravagant basing and equipment.
It currently has 14 commuter-scale Embraer aircraft based in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Manchester and East Midlands, serving 17 destinations across Scandinavia, plus Lyon, Brussels and Zurich.
The aircraft will be based at Perth airport and will work alongside the two existing Scottish Ambulance Service aircraft.
It is feared that the Tornado aircraft currently based at Lossiemouth could be transferred to RAF Marham.
The company identified the aircraft, based at Goodwood, as a privately-owned Mark IX version of the famous wartime fighter with the registration G-TRIX.
Some jet aircraft are based in nearby Kyrgyzstan, but another 500 US troops who have been assigned to the peacekeeping force will be on standby in Germany.
Aegis began as a sea-based defense against hostile aircraft, but over three decades has evolved to become the most versatile missile-defense system in the world, due in no small part to the fact that destroyers and cruisers hosting the system can get wherever they need to be quickly.
The idea is to introduce air travel on demand, using Web-based software to route small aircraft as needed.
The minister confirmed the new Nimrod Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft would be based at RAF Kinloss until at least 2013.
There has been mounting speculation that all Tornado operations could be moved from Lossiemouth to RAF Marham, where engineering work for the aircraft is already based.
Liz Truss, the MP for South West Norfolk, who had campaigned to keep RAF Marham open when it was threatened with closure, was delighted the new aircraft would be based there.
Another example is China Aviation Corp, which acquired US-based Cirrus Industries, a private aircraft maker.
West Yorkshire Police have opened a centralised aircraft despatch centre, based in the Bradford area, for the new service.
Meanwhile, the talks go on about the sale of BMI Regional division - based in Aberdeen, using smaller aircraft, while not using Heathrow.
The Saudi based company, Al-Salam aircraft, 50% of which is owned by Boeing, is believed to be a prime contender for much of the work.
He and his colleagues have made a start on this at Army City, where they are creating a system that will swallow, digest and combine data from satellites, aircraft and ground-based sensors, aligning them in a single, computer-based model of the site.
The advantage that we offer is based on our experience auditing many different aircraft management organizations.
This week the government announced that the new strike aircraft Lightning II would be based at RAF Marham.
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Richard Myers estimated Tuesday, in an afternoon briefing to reporters, that the first hours of the air operation resulted in an "85 percent" success rate, and had effectively cleared away most fixed, ground-based threats to U.S. aircraft.
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