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• New Baby Carrier

  Published: August 28, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: Aircraft Carriers, Naval Aviation, Japan

  Japan has itself a new aircraft carrier. Well, an aircraft carrying destroyer, that is. And a pretty small one; full load 18000 tons, with a normal complement of 4 helicopters. Hyuga is slated to enter service in 2009. She kind of looks like a British Invincible class carrier, although without the ski-jump. I suspect that Hyuga is too small

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• Take With a Bit of (Sea) Salt...

  Published: September 7, 2007, 10:54 am

  Tags: Aircraft Carriers, Naval Aviation, Russia

  month regarding increasing naval capability included Admiral Masorin revealing that Russia is to create two new strike forces. They will be centred on three carriers each, with one trio assigned to the Northern Fleet, based in the Kola Peninsula, and the other to the Pacific. Pravda stated in an editorial published on July 11: 'Russia is

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• We. Will. Never. Learn. In. Time.

  Published: September 25, 2007, 10:38 am

  Tags: Naval Aviation, The Coming Robot Wars

  the use of UAVs in naval (really, all military) aviation is only going to grow. Even in the USN, people are whispering that the days of the large deck supercarrier are

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• Concerns About the Future of the Carrier

  Published: October 29, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: Aircraft Carriers, Naval Aviation, United States Navy

  Norman Polmar has a nice post up at Defense Tech about the future of the aircraft carrier. The big deck carrier remains an extremely powerful platform, but is also remarkably expensive, especially considering the extended task force needed to support and defend a carrier. I'm a little less skeptical than many about the carrier; people have been

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• Or Maybe No Deal...

  Published: February 29, 2008, 8:31 am

  Tags: Aircraft Carriers, Naval Aviation, India, Russia

  This was quick; maybe rumors about Kitty Hawk were being deployed strategically?India and Russia have ended a protracted dispute over the cost of a Soviet-era aircraft carrier which will be now sold at a higher price to the Indian navy in 2011, officials said Feb. 28.Indian Defence Secretary V. K. Singh, returning from Moscow, said a new

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