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Military Sealift Command (MSC) underway replenishment ship USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199) Sailors refuel and re-supply the conventionally-powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63).
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South China Sea (Aug. 30, 2006) Sailors aboard the Military Sealift Command (MSC) underway replenishment ship USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199) refuel and re-supply the conventionally-powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) and the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82). Currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility, Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Patrick L. Heil File# 060830-N-3946H-041
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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