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Aircraft carrier (2012): Liaoning and after

[106] [more-aircraft-carrier-6] Aircraft carrier is the record of 2012 under “Liaoning and after.” The figure to read with it is 1918. Do not arrange states in a league. Fix who moved what, and where, to that year. Do not add a later war into the same total. It abandoned CVA-01 and large CATOBAR for a period, used VTOL Invincible-class decks, then built Queen Elizabeth-class large decks -- a polit

English memory is Midway films and a city-sized US deck. Korean memory is Inchon's carrier air (1950) and later alliance decks in nearby seas -- plus a domestic debate about aviation ships that this page will not umpire as a live programme. TechShift is high; intensity is that of a type, not a war.

A deck that ate the battleship's prestige The carrier is an industrial-political system -- air wing, escorts, and a state's decision to be present at sea -- told as history. Experiments, the Washington Treaty's carrier clauses, and the 1940-41 shocks (Taranto, Pearl Harbor, Bismarck's air wound).

Battleship admirals lost an argument the wrecks then settled. Midway, the Philippine Sea, kamikaze as a late reply. Escort carriers as a second type for convoys and landings (Inchon's air came from decks). Nuclear propulsion (Enterprise, 1961), the US supercarrier as alliance theatre, the RN's political retreat, the Soviet Kiev/Kuznetsov path.

Say Aircraft carrier with 2012, “Liaoning and after,” and 1918. The figure is not a national score.2012

Figures to keep

Year of the action
2012
Figure in the record
1918
Action
Aircraft carrier
Line of the front
Liaoning and after

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