Experiment / treaty
First decks.
Start with Argus and Hosho, not with Midway. The type had a childhood.
Treaty law (1922) is part of the childhood.
Timeline
- Argus, Hosho, Langley
The experiment decade.
- Washington Treaty
Carrier clauses as law.
- Taranto
A harbour raid from a deck.
- Pearl Harbor
The type's political shock in the US.
- Midway
Carrier vs carrier decision.
- Philippine Sea / kamikaze
Mass decks and a late reply.
- Inchon air
UN decks over Korea.
- Enterprise nuclear
A propulsion politics.
- UK CVA-01 death
A fiscal-political retreat.
- Liaoning and after
Chinese public carrier era -- open-source history, not a threat table.
Eras
Proof
Taranto to Tokyo Bay.
Supercarrier / Korea / Vietnam
US type as diplomacy.
Nuclear norm (US)
Nimitz-class political object.
More flags on decks
China, India, UK return -- dated openly.
Milestones
Midway
Type-battle.
Inchon air
Korean meeting.
Nuclear supercarrier
US political-industrial fact.
Headlines will sink the type again. States still fund decks.
ROK aviation-ship talk is politics in the press -- not a line item on this page's ORBAT (there is none).