A high-speed sequence of the second of two RIM-7 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Sea Sparrow missiles launched from US Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) on its way to intercept a remote-controlled drone, during an exercise to test the ships defense capability. The RIM-7M Sea Sparrow is an active radar-guided, surface-to-air missile, with a high-explosive blast fragmentation warhead. Currently under way in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), the HAWK is Americas oldest active warship, and the first of the modern "super carriers" commissioned in 1961
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Allen L. Onstott, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
29/02/2004
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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