The United States Navy has 11 large nuclear-powered fleet Aircraft carriers—carrying around 80 fighters each—the largest Aircraft carriers in the world; the total combined deck space is over twice that of all other nations combined.
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Future aircraft carriers are under construction or in planning by India, France, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and the US.
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Light aircraft carriers were fast enough to operate with the main fleet but of smaller size with reduced aircraft capacity.
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Aircraft carriers today are usually divided into the following four categories based on the way that aircraft take off and land:.
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Since then, aircraft carriers have consistently grown in size, both in length and displacement, as well as improved capabilities; in defense, sensors, electronic warfare, propulsion, range, launch and recovery systems, number and types of aircraft carried and number of sorties flown per day.
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Today's aircraft carriers are so expensive that some nations which operate them risk significant economic and military impact if a carrier is lost.
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US aircraft carriers are notable for having nuclear reactors powering their systems and propulsion.
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Aircraft carriers that are landing extend a tailhook that catches on arrestor wires stretched across the deck to bring themselves to a stop in a short distance.
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Since the early 1950s on conventional carriers it has been the practice to recover aircraft at an angle to port of the axial line of the ship.
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Russian, Chinese, and Indian carriers include a ski-jump ramp for launching lightly loaded conventional fighter aircraft but recover using traditional carrier arresting cables and a tailhook on their aircraft.
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On 2 June 2016, Egypt received the first of two helicopter Aircraft carriers acquired in October 2015, the landing helicopter dock Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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Aircraft carriers was formally commissioned on 16 November 2013 at a ceremony held at Severodvinsk, Russia.
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In terms of carrier future developments, Congress has discussed possibly accelerating the phasing out of one or more Nimitz-class Aircraft carriers, postponing or canceling the procurement of the CVN-82 and CVN-81, or modifying the purchase contract.
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