A US Navy (USN) RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) launches off the port side of the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69), during an exercise designed to demonstrate the ships self-defense combat system. The RIM-116 RAM is designed as an all-weather, high-firepower, low-cost, self-defense system against anti-ship cruise missiles and other asymmetric threats. The EISENHOWER is underway conducting routine operations
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69)
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Miguel A. Contreras, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
14/12/2005
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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