Re:France planning new aircraft carrier
by ceejayoz on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:50PM
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This is counting some carrier-like ships that aren't technically full-blown carriers.
The Australian ships, for example, are "landing helicopter dock" ships. The Japanese ones are "helicopter destroyers" due (due to a prohibition in the Japanese constitution, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Cons... some are still being converted to carry the F-35). A number of the American carriers on the list - the USS Wasp, for example - are actually things like "amphibious assault ships".
Re:France planning new aircraft carrier
by rozab on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:57PM
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But even ordering by the penultimate column (leaving only 'aircraft carriers' according to Wikipedia), still leaves the UK and China with two supercarriers each
The Australian ships, for example, are "landing helicopter dock" ships. The Japanese ones are "helicopter destroyers" due (due to a prohibition in the Japanese constitution, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Cons... some are still being converted to carry the F-35). A number of the American carriers on the list - the USS Wasp, for example - are actually things like "amphibious assault ships".