True but rarely ever used to carry weapons but instead a 650 gallon (if memory serves me right) fuel tank. Standard nuclear layout was a single weapon on right inboard and fuel internal and left inboard.
True but rarely ever used to carry weapons but instead a 650 gallon (if memory serves me right) fuel tank. Standard nuclear layout was a single weapon on right inboard and fuel internal and left inboard.
The USS Saipan (CVL-48) operated FH-1 Phantoms of VF-17A in 1948.
It was the smallest aircraft carrier to have operated jets.
Saipan served as carrier until 1957.