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The technology from the military that is featured here is the USS Wasp (LHD-1)

Aircraft carriers are warships designed for the mission of deploying and recovering aircraft. These carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases (ground bases) for holding aircraft operations. They have evolved from wooden vessels into nuclear powered warships that carry dozens of fighter jets and many army helicopters. 

Here is a picture the USS Wasp out on a mission

Here is a picture of the crest for the Wasp

The aircraft ship that I am going to focus on is the USS Wasp (LHD-1). This carrier is a U.S. Navy multipurpose amphibious assault ship. It is the flagship of the Second Fleet and the lead ship of her class. She was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Her length is 844 ft. (257 m) and the beam on the ship is 106 ft. (32 m). USS Wasp and her sister ships are the first carriers designed to accommodate new Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) for fast troop movement over the beach and Harrier II (AV-8B) Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) jets which provide close air support for the assault force. Wasp also accommodates the full range of Navy and Marine Corps helicopters, conventional landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.

To carry out its primary mission, USS Wasp has an assault support system that synchronizes the simultaneous horizontal and vertical flow of troops, cargo and vehicles throughout the ship. Two aircraft elevators service the hangar bay and flight deck that carry the jets and helicopters to the flight deck from the hangar bay and vise-versa. The Helicopters are located in the hangar bay or on the flight deck. This particular carrier can hold up to 2,200 troops (marines). The armament has 2 NATO Sea Sparrow missile systems, 2 Rolling Airframe Missile systems, 2 Phalanx CIWS, 3 25 mm Mk 38 cannons and .50-cal M2HB machine guns; the longest range of this ship is 17,600 km. Wasp has recently carried 12 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, 4 CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters, 3 UH-1N Huey helicopters, 4 AH-1Z Viper helicopters, 6 AV-8B Harrier attack aircraft, and a MV-22 Osprey VTOL tilt-rotor aircraft.

 In this picture you can see that the Wasp can also hold jets and helicopters on its flight deck
 

Wasp has medical and dental facilities capable of providing intensive medical. In addition, three battle dressing stations are located throughout the ship as well for dressing and storing of cloths that are not needed at the time.

USS Wasp's two steam propulsion plants and turbines — the largest currently in operation in the U.S. Navy — generates a total of 400 tons of steam per hour. The propulsion system develops 70,000 shaft horsepower powering the ship to speeds in excess of 22 knots (25.3 mph or 41 km/h). USS Wasp was built using more than 21,000 tons of steel, 400 tons of aluminum, 400 miles (640 km) of electrical/electronic cables, 80 miles (130 km) of piping and tubing of various types and sizes, and 10 miles (16 km) of ventilation ducting. Wasp weighed more than 27,000 tons on 4 August 1987 when it was deployed to the water and has a mass of 40,532 tons when it is fully loaded.

This is a fighter jet taking of off a USS Wasp carrier to take on a dangerous mission

Here is a video of a F-18 fighter jet taking off of a USS Wasp Carrier

Some History

February 1993, she left her port on an emergency deployment to Somalia to participate in the United Nations intervention. Following that, she assisted off the coast of Kuwait for another operation.

1998 she won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the Atlantic Fleet. The Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award is an award presented annually by the U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations to one ship in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and one in the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The award is generally given to the recipient of the ship in the fleet with the highest score in the fleet's annual competitions for Battle Efficiency Awards which indicates that the fleet is the most battle-ready ship.

In February 2004, the USS Wasp set sail to take on the mission of bringing the Marines of HMM-266 Rein to Afghanistan which she succeeded to do.  

In September 2007, the USS Wasp sailed to Nicaragua to offer help to the victims of Hurricane Felix and assisted well according to plan.

Future for this Carrier
I think that the future for the carrier is a very powerful, strong and efficient aircraft carrier. One that will take on any mission and defeat the enemy quickly and efficiently