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Aviation ordnancemen relocate 2,000-lb. GBU-31 Joint Defense Attack Munitions (JDAMs) for uploading to aircraft aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63).
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The Arabian Gulf (Mar. 20, 2003) Aviation ordnancemen relocate 2,000-lb. GBU-31 Joint Defense Attack Munitions (JDAMs) for uploading to aircraft aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). JDAMs are guidance kits that convert existing unguided bombs into precision-guided "smart" munitions. The tail section contains an inertial navigational system (INS) and a global positioning system (GPS). A JDAM improves the accuracy of unguided bombs in any weather condition. Kitty Hawk is operating with coalition forces in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraqs weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Todd Frantom. File# 030320-N-1810F-007
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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