US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) Anthony Walley, Pilot, Fighter Squadron 103 (VF-103), Jolly Rogers, Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Virginia (VA), inspects the MAU-169/B Paveway II Computer Control Group on a 500-pound GBU-12 ordnance attached to an F-14B Tomcat aircraft during a pre-flight inspection. The VF-103 is part of Carrier Air Wing 17 (CVW-17), embarked on board the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) participating in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Exercise DESTINED GLORY 2002

Fighter planes and military aircrafts.

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.