A high-speed sequence of the second of two RIM-7 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Sea Sparrow missiles launched from US Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) on its way to intercept a remote-controlled drone, during an exercise to test the ships defense capability. The RIM-7M Sea Sparrow is an active radar-guided, surface-to-air missile, with a high-explosive blast fragmentation warhead. Currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), the HAWK is Americas oldest active warship, and the first of the modern "super carriers" commissioned in 1961

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A high-speed sequence of the second of two RIM-7 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Sea Sparrow missiles launched from US Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) on its way to intercept a remote-controlled drone, during an exercise to test the ships defense capability. The RIM-7M Sea Sparrow is an active radar-guided, surface-to-air missile, with a high-explosive blast fragmentation warhead. Currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), the HAWK is Americas oldest active warship, and the first of the modern "super carriers" commissioned in 1961

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Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)

Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Allen L. Onstott, Usn

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.