USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Making 20 knots
The oldest active ship in the United States Navy,
Hawk was commissioned on April 29, 1961 as the first in a new line of "supercarriers."
Today, Hawk is also America's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier,
operating from Yokosuka, Japan, with Carrier Air Wing Five,
which is permanently forward deployed to Atsugi, Japan.
The Hawk set sail for a planned three-month deployment March 2, 1999,
that included Exercise Tandem Thrust off Guam.
Another image of her at Guam,USA(Opals travel site).
Following the exercise, the Hawk/FIVE team was ordered to the Arabian Gulf to enforce the No-Fly Zone over Southern Iraq.
CVW-5 pilots flew over 8,800 sorties in 116 days, including 1,300 combat sorties, dropping more than 20 tons of ordnance.
She has four,grared, steam turbines, engines and a
Crew of 2,800, with the Air wing=5,500.
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