Aircraft Carriers
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. Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear-powered warships that carry numerous fighters, strike aircraft, helicopters, and other types of aircraft. While heavier aircraft such as fixed-wing gunships and bombers have been …
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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of correspondence and reports concerning the Soviet attitude towards the Falklands War. The documents cover discussions with Soviet officials on the crisis, outlining the British and Soviet positions; …
Street Journal' are directly calling for US aircraft carriers to take part in military operations against …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French
A file of correspondence and reports concerning the Soviet attitude to the Falklands War. The documents cover articles on the dispute published in the Soviet press and broadcast on Soviet …
ships of the British naval formation, the aircraft carriers Invincible and Hermes» frigates and destroyers …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of correspondence and reports concerning the Soviet attitude to the Falklands War. The documents cover articles published in the Soviet press and statements made by Soviet officials criticising …
acute. As the British Fleet, led by the aircraft-carriers Invincible and Hermes, steams towards its …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of correspondence and reports concerning the Soviet attitude towards the Falklands War. The documents cover discussions with Soviet officials on Soviet policy towards the dispute; Soviet calls for …
to use nuclear missiles, submarines and aircraft carriers against our country, and, on the other hand …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French
A file containing documents relating to Soviet foreign policy. Subjects covered in the file include the role of the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, in foreign-policy formulation; the view that the …
intercontinental bombers, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and tipping missiles with separately targetable …
The National Archives · 1 January 1981 English
only by such deyiceB as excluding American aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean and American bombers …
The National Archives · 1 January 1981 English
that "by filling the Persian Gull area with aircraft carriers they will solve the problem of ensuring the …
The National Archives · 1 January 1980 English
nearer, but by no means ideal. The two US aircraft carriers are powerful weapons but they cannot themselves …
The National Archives · 1 January 1980 English
refer to US aircraft based in Europe and on aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean which are capable of …
The National Archives · 1 January 1979 English
A file containing documents relating to the Soviet armed forces. Subjects covered in the file include the rapid expansion of the Soviet navy; a British Parliamentary Question on the strength …
ALFA Diesel Submarines 3 TANGO; FOXTROT* Aircraft Carriers 0 1 KIEV Guided Missile Cruisers 2 0 …
