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A catapult shooter launches an F/A-18C Hornet off the bow of the conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63).
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Pacific Ocean (Aug. 28, 2004) A catapult shooter launches an F/A-18C Hornet off the bow of the conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). Catapult Shooters are responsible for the safe and incident-free launch of all aircraft aboard aircraft carriers. Currently under way in the 7th Fleet Area of Responsibility (AOR), Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Bo J. Flannigan File# 040828-N-5781F-167
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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