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USS Ranger (CV-61) 🇺🇸It was a Forrestal class conventional (⛽) carrier who served in the US Navy⚓ from 1957 to 1993.It was the first aircraft carrier to include an angle deck in its design (its older brothers Forrestal and Saratoga had designed themselves as longitudinal deck ships and the design was changed while they were under construction.It was used in the movie Top Gun directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise to film the F-14 Tomcat takeoff scenes.During her service in the Vietnam War she earned 13 stars.It was discharged in 2004 and was waiting to become a museum ship, but in late 2014 its sale was cleared for scrap.General Features:* Displacement: • 56.300 ton.• 84,101 tons. in full load.* Length: 319 meters.* Sleeve: 40 meters.* Silent: 11 meters.* Crew: 3,826.* Airplanes: 70 to 90.