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An EA-6B Prowler is guided onto a catapult prior to launch from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).
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Persian Gulf (Mar. 22, 2005) An EA-6B Prowler, assigned to the "Yellowjackets" of Electronic Attack Squadron One Three Eight (VAQ-138), is guided onto a catapult prior to launch from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The Carl Vinson Strike Group is currently on deployment to promote peace and stability and respond to emergent events overseas. USS Carl Vinson will end its deployment with a homeport shift to Norfolk, Va., and will conduct a three-year refuel and complex overhaul. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Dusty Howell File# 050322-N-3241H-008
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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