Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/DontGiveUpTheShip

 
Original - Missile launching from the USS Lake Erie (CG-70), on February 20, 2008
Reason
clear, large PD image, illustrates both the event, the ship the missle, looks good, good quality, very few images that show all the pyrotechnics of missile launches.
Articles this image appears in
USS Lake Erie (CG-70), USA 193, Missile, Vertical launching system, Oliver Hazard Perry and James Lawrence
Creator
US Navy

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 08:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]