Fire Controlman 3rd Class Christopher Laird performs maintenance aloft on the SPS-48 radar aboard nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 16, 2007) Fire Controlman 3rd Class Christopher Laird performs maintenance aloft on the SPS-48 radar aboard nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz Strike Group and embarked Carrier Air Wing 11 are deployed to 7th Fleet. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David L. Smart File# 070816-N-0890S-003
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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