Warships that carry, launch and recover aircraft at sea, from the Essex class of the Second World War to the nuclear-powered carriers of the United States and the ski-jump carriers of other navies. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as an aircraft carrier or a class of aircraft carriers. It excludes submarines, battleships and amphibious assault ships. Carriers became the capital ships of the Pacific War, and the line from the wartime Essex class to the Ford class shows how size, propulsion and catapult and arresting systems changed as jets arrived.
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Wikipedia: Aircraft carrier
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An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to carry, launch, recover and support aircraft at sea, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities that allow it to serve as a mobile, seagoing airbase.
Wikipedia: Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
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The Nimitz class is a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the United States Navy.
Wikipedia: Gerald R. Ford-class Aircraft Carrier
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The Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier is a class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy to replace portions of the aging Nimitz-class carrier fleet.
Wikipedia: Essex-Class Aircraft Carrier
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The Essex class is a retired class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy.
Wikipedia: Queen Elizabeth-Class Aircraft Carrier
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The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy consists of two vessels.
Charles de Gaulle (R91), Wikipedia
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Charles de Gaulle (R91; French: [ʃaʁl(ə) də ɡol] ) is the flagship of the French Navy.
Wikipedia: Admiral Kuznetsov (aircraft carrier)
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Admiral Kuznetsov (Russian: Адмира́л фло́та Сове́тского Сою́за Кузнецо́в, romanized: Admiral flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov, lit. 'Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov') is an aircraft-carrying missile cruiser in Russian classification, which has served as the flagship of the Russian Navy, although she has been out of service since 2017. She was built by the Black Sea Shipyard, the sole manufacturer of Soviet aircraft carriers, in Nikolayev within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR) and launched in 1985, becoming fully operational in the Russian Navy in 1995. The initial name of the ship was Riga; she was launched as Leonid Brezhnev, embarked on sea trials as Tbilisi, before she was finally named after Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Nikolai Kuznetsov.
Forrestal-class aircraft carrier, Wikipedia
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The Forrestal-class aircraft carriers were four aircraft carriers designed and built for the United States Navy in the 1950s.
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