Central Mediterranean Sea. CHIEF Warrant Officer Paul L. Hart makes a time check between test firings of the Mark 16 Phalanx close-in weapons system aboard the aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA (CV 43) during operations near Libya
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Base: USS Coral Sea (CV 43)
Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Ben Powers
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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