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A US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft, Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (AIRTEVRON) Nine (VX-9, ßVampiresß), Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS), China Lake, California (CA), flies an operational flight test mission over the Owens Lake region of the Eastern High Sierras and Mojave Test Ranges to evaluate the prototype of the APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar

A US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft, Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (AIRTEVRON) Nine (VX-9, ßVampiresß), Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS), China Lake, California (CA), is on landing approach to NAWS China Lake after flying an operational flight test mission over the Owens Lake region of the Eastern High Sierras and Mojave Test Ranges to evaluate the prototype of the APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar

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A US Navy flight deck crew member directs an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft from Strike Fighter Squadron 105 after it landed on the flight deck of the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71) during operations in the Atlantic Ocean. The Super Hornet is an all-weather, carrier-based fighter/ attack aircraft that provides USN Carrier Strike Group with increased range, endurance and ordnance-carrying capabilities.(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Sheldon Rowley) (Released)

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A US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft assigned to the Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine (VX-9) conducts an operation test mission flight over the Coso Mountain Range, at China Lake, California (CA). This aircraft is one of the first Super Hornets equipped with the revolutionary new APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, which could eventually give naval aircrews a quantum leap in tactical capability over older aircraft equipped with mechanical radar systems

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: China Lake

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: CDR Ian C. Anderson, Usn

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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15/12/2005
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