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An '''aircraft carrier''' is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations. They have evolved from wooden vessels, used to deploy balloons, into nuclear powered warships (with a 20-25 year fuel capacity) that carry 6,000 crewman and aircrew and nearly 100 fixed and rotary wing aircraft. | An '''aircraft carrier''' is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations. They have evolved from wooden vessels, used to deploy balloons, into nuclear powered warships (with a 20-25 year fuel capacity) that carry 6,000 crewman and aircrew and nearly 100 fixed and rotary wing aircraft. | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:43, 3 November 2022
An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations. They have evolved from wooden vessels, used to deploy balloons, into nuclear powered warships (with a 20-25 year fuel capacity) that carry 6,000 crewman and aircrew and nearly 100 fixed and rotary wing aircraft.
USS Lexington CV-16 
Brazilian R-11, Pincipe-de-Asturias, USS Wasp, USS Forrestal, HMS Invincible showing comparable sizes of aircraft carriers
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Aircraft_carrier ]
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