Strike Fighter Squadron 136 (VFA-136) F/A-18A Hornet aircraft and an Attack Squadron 34 (VA-34) A-6E Intruder aircraft, right, sit armed and ready on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69). The aircraft are armed with Mark 20 Rockeye II cluster bombs and AGM-88A HARM anti-radar missiles; the F/A-18 aircraft also carry AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles on their wing tips. The EISENHOWER is one of the U.S. Navy ships sent to the Persian Gulf in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD/STORM
Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Kettenhoffen
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/08/1990
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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