A RIM-7 ship-launched intercept aerial guided missile fires from a NATO Sea Sparrow launcher during a live-fire exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73)

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A RIM-7 ship-launched intercept aerial guided missile fires from a NATO Sea Sparrow launcher during a live-fire exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73)

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 09, 2008) A RIM-7 ship-launched intercept aerial guided missile fires from a NATO Sea Sparrow launcher during a live-fire exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). George Washington is conducting carrier qualifications and flight deck certification in preparation for a homeport change to Yokosuka, Japan, to replace the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) as the Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Clifford L. H. Davis File# 080209-N-9565D-012

Carriers

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.