https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations.

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Historical overview. The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the U.S. Navy was USS Langley on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). It was soon followed by the other pre-World War II classes: the Lexington class; USS Ranger, the first U.S. purpose-built carrier; theYorktown class, and USS Wasp.

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Escort aircraft carrier. The United States Navy also had a sizable fleet of escort aircraft carriers during World War II and the era that followed. These ships were both quicker and cheaper to build than larger fleet carriers and were built in great numbers to serve as a stop-gap measure when fleet carriers were too few.

https://www.britannica.com/technology/aircraft-carrier
Learn about the naval vessel that launches and recovers airplanes at sea, from its origins in the early 20th century to its modern variations. Explore the roles of carriers in World War II, the first nuclear-powered carrier, and the different types of carriers.

https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-FactFiles/Article/2169795/aircraft-carriers-cvn/
Aircraft carriers are the centerpiece of America's Naval forces - the most adaptable and survivable airfields in the world. On any given day, Sailors aboard an aircraft carrier and its air wing

https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Blogs/Detail/Article/2906154/centennial-of-us-navy-aircraft-carriers/
Since USS Langley's commissioning 100 years ago, the U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers are embarked carrier air wings have projected power, sustained sea control, bolstered deterrence, provided

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/uss-gerald-ford-deploys/index.html
The aircraft carrier has new, advanced technology including "nearly three times the amount of electrical power," compared to the Nimitz-class carriers and uses the electromagnetic aircraft

https://www.military.com/equipment/nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier
Learn about the Nimitz class, the largest and most powerful warships in the world, that support and operate aircraft for various missions. Find out the ships in class, their locations, and their refueling status.

https://allhands.navy.mil/Features/Ford/
Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the first new design for an aircraft carrier since USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Aircraft Carrier Background. The aircraft carrier, with its embarked carrier air wing, is a preeminent asset for maintenance of maritime superiority across the oceans of the globe. History has time and again shown the invaluable benefits of having

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Today, the only aircraft carriers in service are the remaining Nimitz-class and one Gerald R. Ford-class, which is meant to replace the Nimitz carriers in the coming decades. The Gerald R. Ford-class carrier is about 1,100 feet long, has a crew of 4,500, and can carry up to 75 aircraft, to include the F35-C, the world's first long-range

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/aircraft-carriers.html
Learn about the evolution of aircraft carriers from their origins in 1910 to the modern nuclear-powered vessels of today. Explore the roles, features, and missions of U.S. Navy carriers in World War II, the Cold War, and beyond.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/aircraft-carrier.htm
Learn about the history, design and functions of modern aircraft carriers, the largest and most powerful ships in the world. Find out how they launch and land planes, and what life is like on board.

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As the world's largest aircraft carrier in the world's dominant navy, the USS Gerald R. Ford is gargantuan. The aircraft carrier took eight years to build, s

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05 April 2022. U.S. Navy aircraft carriers maintain unmatched responsiveness, flexibility and mobility as well as the unique ability to operate forward, far away from American shores

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More aircraft carriers were approved and built, including Ranger, the first class of aircraft carriers in the United States Navy designed and built as aircraft carriers from the keel. The United States declared war on Japan following the attack of December 7, 1941 on Pearl Harbor. The two nations revolutionized naval warfare in the course of

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-aircraft-carrier-wing-every-plane-helicopter-2016-5?op=1
Lt. Chris Denton, a shooter aboard the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), gives the signal to launch an E/A-18G Growler from the Shadowhawks of

https://airandspace.si.edu/air-and-space-quarterly/winter-2022/americas-first-aircraft-carrier
Learn how the USS Langley, a converted coal ship, became the first carrier to launch and recover aircraft in 1922. Explore the history and legacy of this pioneering vessel and its crew of naval aviators.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a38696676/every-single-aircraft-carrier-in-the-world/
The Russian Navy's Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier seen at shipyard No 35 in December 2017. The largest conventionally powered carrier in the world, Admiral Kuznetsov is also Russia's only

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The USS Nimitz is the oldest of the active aircraft carriers in the world. It is the namesake of its class of aircraft carriers. The Nimitz-class "supercarriers" take their name from famous U.S. Navy Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. The USS Nimitz is 1,092 feet long, 252 feet wide and 4.5 acres is the area of its flight deck.

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The Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) is a new design surveillance radar that is to be installed in the second Gerald R. Ford -class aircraft carrier, John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), in lieu of the Dual Band radar. The America -class amphibious assault ships starting with LHA-8 and the planned LX (R) will also have this radar. [45]

https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/aircraft-carriers.html
Learn about the different types and roles of US Navy aircraft carriers, from World War II to the present. Explore images of various ships in the CV, CVE and other series.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a45631190/why-aircraft-carriers-are-still-unmatched/
The deck of an aircraft carrier is a tool unmatched in modern warfare and diplomacy. The admirals like to point out that a Nimitz- or Ford -class aircraft carrier is "4.5 acres of sovereign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_aircraft_carrier
An airborne aircraft carrier is a type of mother ship aircraft which can carry, launch, retrieve and support other smaller parasite aircraft. [1] The only dedicated examples to have been built were airships, although existing heavier-than-air aircraft have been modified for use in similar roles. Airborne aircraft carriers of various types