The conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) departs its forward operating base to begin its fall underway.

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The conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) departs its forward operating base to begin its fall underway.

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Yokosuka, Japan (Oct. 24, 2005) The conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) departs its forward operating base to begin its fall underway. Kitty Hawk and Carrier Strike Group Five (CSG-5) will participate in an annual exercise with the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. The Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group demonstrates power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier strike group. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Tony Peters File# 051024-N-2019P-061

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.