A Mark 38-25 mm machine gun system fires during a live-fire exercise aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51).
Summary
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Aug. 31, 2018) A Mark 38-25 mm machine gun system fires during a live-fire exercise aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51). Arleigh Burke is currently deployed as part of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group. The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) will continue its deployment by conducting sustainment operations in the Atlantic. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin Yarborough) File# 180831-N-JO245-113
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.