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A Sailor gives the signal to launch an E-2C � Hawkeye� from one of four steam driven catapults on the ship�s flight deck.
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At sea aboard USS Abraham Lincoln A Sailor gives the signal to launch an E-2C Hawkeye from one of four steam driven catapults on the ships flight deck. The Hawkeye is the Navy's all-weather, carrier-based tactical warning and control system aircraft. It provides all-weather airborne early warning command and control functions for the carrier battle group. Additional missions include surface surveillance coordination, strike and interceptor control, search and rescue guidance and communications relay. Lincoln and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are on a scheduled six month deployment conducting combat operations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Daniel J. Mark. File# 020923-N-1159M-003
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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