Naval Warfare
PREMIUM: Is the USN defying the aircraft carrier’s obsolescence?
Central the USN’s force structure is its fleet of aircraft carriers, providing power projection into its main operational theatres and acting as 100,000t symbols of US maritime dominance. Even discounting the America- and Wasp-class amphibious assault ships, the US has more carrier decks than the all those ...
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