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The strict rules avoid a choice among Tartar, Ashanti, Nubian, and Eskimo, four destroyers whose service records would each support a museum ship.
From For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped? ·
Ashanti's commissioning relationship with the Ashanti people creates a preservation story extending beyond Britain and the destroyer's combat record.
From For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped? ·
Tartar's wartime use by a specialist group studying surveillance and landings gives the destroyer an institutional history beyond conventional fleet action.
From For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped? ·
The final carrier choice comes down to Illustrious versus Saratoga, with Britain's lack of any preserved carrier deciding the comparison.
From For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped? ·
Tiger beats Gloire, Devastation, Warspite, and Rodney because a surviving battlecruiser would fill the most conspicuous gap in naval museums.
From For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped? ·
HMS Implacable is chosen over Great Michael, Carcass, turtle ships, treasure ships, and quinqueremes because she was a known surviving third-rate lost as late as 1949.
From For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped? ·
When a hull cannot be saved, carefully researched virtual reality could still let visitors move through lost warships and understand their spaces.
From For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped? ·
The Falklands example frames carriers as mobile airbases that still have to fight as warships, especially when distant land bases cannot sustain the mission.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
The interwar British example links military recovery to prior investment in industry, infrastructure, education, and health rather than to defence appropriations alone.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
A procurement decision has to measure whether a capability fits its task, rather than treating the lowest immediate cost as the only meaningful comparison.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Carrier aviation is not disappearing: navies are fielding full carriers, helicopter ships, and amphibious flight decks sized for very different missions.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
One carrier can be absent when needed; additional hulls turn a symbolic asset into an available operational capability and a visible deterrent.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
High peacetime operational tempo can exhaust forces that lack reserves, while nuclear carriers are especially costly platforms to hold inactive.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's medium-carrier and sea-control-ship ideas are presented as attempts to preserve useful aviation capacity beyond an all-nuclear supercarrier fleet.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
A ship that can combine aviation, amphibious lift, and future crewed or uncrewed aircraft can offer a medium power several useful capabilities in one hull.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
The Queen Elizabeth-class case shows how a fixed number of hulls can push a navy toward larger carriers whose hangar space preserves later options.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
An air group can be tailored on paper, but reinforcing or changing it during a distant crisis depends on transport routes and other states' cooperation.
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Hermes was re-roled from a commando carrier because sea-control requirements demanded Sea Harriers and anti-submarine helicopters rather than a troop-heavy air group.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Quiet diesel-electric submarines can act like mobile minefields, so a carrier group needs submarines, escorts, and helicopters working through layered anti-submarine defence.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Fast missiles are serious threats, but carrier survival also depends on targeting information, defensive layers, size, compartmentation, and damage-control capacity.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Second World War Mediterranean fighting illustrates how both sides can act soundly within doctrine and still achieve little because combat outcomes remain uncertain.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Claims that all aviation should be centrally controlled are placed in the institutional history of the RAF's 1918 creation from naval and army air services.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Japan, Italy, France, and Egypt illustrate how aviation ships can support convoy protection, NATO responsibilities, disaster relief, presence, and regional response.
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Exercises can create false confidence when participants seek prestige targets or accept risks that real crews and commanders would avoid in war.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
The continued growth of China's carrier force suggests that missile threats change carrier operations rather than making embarked aviation irrelevant.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Hermes and Invincible could prepare a strike against Veinticinco de Mayo, but without airborne early warning or adequate reconnaissance they lacked the targeting picture to organize it.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Pacific carrier warfare offers valuable evidence, but its all-out industrial contest and alpha-strike doctrines do not automatically describe a modern peer conflict.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Launch and recovery systems are not universal rankings: CATOBAR, STOBAR, and STOVL each fit different aircraft, operational tempos, and naval requirements.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Compatible aircraft across carriers and amphibious ships can give a navy more usable flight decks, even when the smaller ships carry fewer fixed-wing aircraft.
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China's carrier rationale emphasizes defensive depth over nearby seas and protection for task groups, with a different mission from another navy's strike-centric model.
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A platform that works for the U.S. Navy's scale can consume the crews, trainers, shore staff, and budget of a much smaller navy.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Comparing Juan Carlos and Trieste shows that a larger amphibious ship also changes crewing, dry-dock, pier-space, and infrastructure requirements.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Defence spending on carriers is inseparable from investment in trained people, health, education, yards, docks, and the wider industrial base.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
India's carrier programme is connected to Indian Ocean trade routes and to the vulnerability of undersea cables that carry the world's digital traffic.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Modern distributed supply chains are new in form, but the movement of goods, labour competition, and economic dependence across maritime networks have centuries of precedent.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
For India, a carrier group can signal interest and readiness across a region shaped by piracy, Middle Eastern and East African security concerns, and tensions around the South China Sea.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Modern navies may have little between a routine escort deployment and a carrier battle group, while interest from South Korea and other states suggests that the carrier club may still expand.
From The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin ·
Supporter questions forced fresh research into logistics, battleship assumptions, and carrier crew figures.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·
The panel tests the weight, turret, shell, and fleet-wide consequences of adopting the interwar 15-inch/50 gun.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·
A future smaller conventional carrier is proposed as the right vessel to revive USS Langley's pioneering name.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·
A speculative Spanish fleet question becomes an explanation of why navies build experimental capabilities into proven hulls.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·
The panel estimates Tirpitz's position in the Norwegian fjord system by straight-line and navigable distance.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·
The panel rejects a quick single-digit estimate and explains why a defensible total requires a navy-by-navy count with clear inclusion rules.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·
The 'Wikipedia rule' sets a public-information boundary for discussing current systems while the underlying research may go much deeper.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·
Replacing two 450 mm weapons with four 533 mm torpedoes would impose far more than the ammunition's extra weight.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·
The County-class launcher was selected because it was the workable British-built system available for the Sea Slug missile.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·
Tallboy could destroy a dug-in position, but finding and accurately hitting tactical island targets was the limiting problem.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·
The late Juneau-class cruisers are assessed as valuable invasion escorts whose guns remained dangerous to jets inside their engagement envelope.
From Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety! ·