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The fantail-mounted Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) fires during a Pre-Aim Calibration (PAC) fire aboard the conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63).
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Pacific Ocean (Oct. 31, 2005) The fantail-mounted Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) fires during a Pre-Aim Calibration (PAC) fire aboard the conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). CIWS is the self-defense system that combines a 20mm Gatling gun with search and tracking radar to provide surface ships with terminal defense against anti-ship missiles. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Joshua Wayne LeGrand File# 051031-N-8604L-026
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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