Tag: aircraft carriers
Everyone I know sent me a link related to this event. First things first, congratulations to the PLAN and to the people of China on turning a half-finished hulk into a major, if limited, warship. So
Yesterday I had some more thoughts at the Diplomat on the enduring attraction of the aircraft carrier: Have aircraft carriers become obsolete? Since 1949, analysts have argued that some combination
The Royal Navy, after deciding last year to switch from the STOVL F-35B (short take off vertical landing) to the CATOBAR (catapult assisted takeoff barrier assisted recovery) F-35C, has now switched b
I have thoughts on arms control and aircraft carriers: China, India and Japan do not appear to be on the verge of breaking the bank in an effort to match each other’s construction. Still, from a
No, India will not be purchasing one of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers, or at least not in the short term. The most important reason, I suspect, is that the British are
France has acknowledged that it will no longer deploy nuclear weapons on board the Charles De Gaulle, at least under normal circumstances: France no longer deploys nuclear weapons on its aircraft carr
Via Galrahn, it looks as if the Royal Navy is ditching plans to buy the F-35B (VSTOL variant), and instead buying the F-35C (carrier variant) and adding catapults to its new carriers. As I’ve su
A USN aircraft carrier should not, under any circumstances, be named the Barry M. Goldwater. While I’ll concede that Goldwater would probably be a better choice from the perspective of US histor
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