A bow on view showing Replenishment At Sea (RAS) being conducted with US Navy (USN) Ships underway in the vicinity of Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, during Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2001. Pictured left-to-right (background) are the USN Aircraft Carrier, USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), the Military Sealift Command (MSC), HENRY J KAISER CLASS: OILER, USS RAPPAHANNOCK (T-AO 204) and the USN TICONDEROGA CLASS: Guided Missile Cruiser (Aegis) USS CHANCELLORSVILLE (CG 62). Her Majestys Australian Ship (HMAS) BRISBANE (DDG 41), MODIFIED CHARLES F ADAMS CLASS: Destroyer is underway in the foreground
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Subject Operation/Series: TANDEM THRUST 2001
Base: Shoal Water Bay Operating Area
Country: Australia (AUS)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 (Sw) Andrew Meyers, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Australia Royalty Free Stock Photo
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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