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The conventional aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) combat systems department conducts a Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) pre-aim calibration on CIWS Mount 24.
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Pacific Ocean (Sep. 03, 2004) The conventional aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) combat systems department conducts a Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) pre-aim calibration on CIWS Mount 24. CIWS, a 20mm automatic machine gun with radar tracking, is the final means to neutralize in-bound air threats. Currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the world's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Theron J. Godbold File# 040903-N-5464G-033
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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