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- Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft and aircraft that support military operations [e]
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- BaE Sea Harrier [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AV-8 Harrier II [r]: Add brief definition or description
- GR7 Harrier II [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Harrier (fighter) [r]: A family of British-designed fighter aircraft, capable of vertical takeoff and landing but preferably STOVL, with UK and US versions [e]
- MiG-29K (fighter) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Su-25K (fighter) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Amphibious ready group [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Royal Navy [r]: By long naval tradition, when there is no qualifier but "Royal", the navy being discussed is that of the United Kingdom. [e]
- United States Navy [r]: Branch of the U.S. armed forces] responsible for combat on, over, and under water. [e]
- United States Air Force [r]: Branch of the U.S. armed forces responsible for land-based aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles [e]
- United States Marine Corps [r]: Branch of the U.S. armed forces serving as elite fighters on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships. [e]
- Conventional takeoff and landing [r]: Either an aircraft that requires long runways, or a carrier-capable aircraft that must be catapult-launched and will land with the tailhook & arrested landing system [e]
- Vertical takeoff and landing [r]: Aircraft, most commonly helicopters, that can take off and land vertically, with no horizontal takeoff or landing roll. [e]
- Type C3 ship [r]: Cargo ship designed by the U.S. Maritime Administration; 465 of these ships were built between 1939 and 1947; larger and faster than its Type C2 predecessor; many converted to naval uses, particularly as escort aircraft carriers (CVE)s and as tenders for destroyers, submarines and seaplanes [e]