The US Navy (USN) Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer USS HIGGINS (DDG 76) (foreground) and the Indian Hermes Class Aircraft Carrier INS (Indian Navy Ship) VIRAAT (R 22) underway in the Indian Ocean as part of Exercise MALABAR 2005. The exercise is designed to increase interoperability between the two navies while enhancing the cooperative security relationship between India and the United States. The at-sea exercise includes maritime interdiction, surface events, sub-surface, air events, and personnel exchanges. Indian aircraft in the image include a Chetak helicopter (top), Sea King helicopter (left) and a Sea Harrier lifting off the rear of the VIRAAT
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Indian Ocean (IOC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Shane T. Mccoy, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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30/09/2005
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