A NATO Sea Sparrow (RIM-7) missile blasts through its foam launcher cover during a shipboard self-defense exercise on board Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (May. 21, 2007) A NATO Sea Sparrow (RIM-7) missile blasts through its foam launcher cover during a shipboard self-defense exercise on board Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Truman is underway conducting carrier qualifications in the Atlantic. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kristopher Wilson File# 070521-N-5345W-047
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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