The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) takes on fuel from the Military Sealift Command (MSC) underway replenishment oiler USNS John Ericsson (T-AO 194) during a replenishment at sea.

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The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) takes on fuel from the Military Sealift Command (MSC) underway replenishment oiler USNS John Ericsson (T-AO 194) during a replenishment at sea.

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Pacific Ocean (Jan. 30, 2005) The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) takes on fuel from the Military Sealift Command (MSC) underway replenishment oiler USNS John Ericsson (T-AO 194) during a replenishment at sea. Currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Lamel J. Hinton File# 050130-N-1485H-107

Carriers

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.