A RIM-7M NATO Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile is test fired off the fantail aboard USS Washington (CVN 73).
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Atlantic Ocean (Jan. 21, 2004) A RIM-7M NATO Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile is test fired off the fantail aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73). The missile is propelled by a solid-fuel rocket motor and travels at supersonic speeds. The Navy uses the Sea Sparrow aboard ships as a surface-to-air anti-missile defensive weapon. The Norfolk, Va.-based nuclear powered aircraft carrier is on a scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 3rd Class Sheryl M. Campbell. File# 040121-N-6653C-002
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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