Aircraft line the flight deck of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), as the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59) guides the carrier through the Straits of Hormuz.
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PERSIAN GULF (Jul. 12, 2007) Aircraft line the flight deck of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), as the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59) guides the carrier through the Straits of Hormuz. Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11 are deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area Of operations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David L. Smart File# 070712-N-0890S-020
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.
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