Today, ten years later, the affordability of aircraft carriers is again becoming an issue.
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More than 30 ships were sunk, most of them Japanese including their last four aircraft carriers.
Admirals are enthusiasts for aircraft carriers and air marshals favour the latest combat aircraft.
Chinese aircraft carriers are the cornerstone of a multidecade effort by Beijing to modernize its forces.
JSF, particularly for the two new aircraft carriers that it is developing jointly with France.
All were shocked to learn that the United States has a total of just 11 aircraft carriers.
He leaned on the military, saving untold millions by using World War II-era aircraft carriers and battleships.
Aircraft carriers are the capital ships of the modern Navy, a potent symbol of American military power.
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The navy frets that it could lose the two new aircraft carriers it has been counting on.
When it came to foreign representation, a couple of countries sent aircraft carriers and others a destroyer.
By 5 April the first battle ships, including two aircraft carriers, hurriedly set sail for the South Atlantic.
The Navy model will operate from aircraft carriers, while the Air Force version will be based on land.
The MoD said the "new, much larger" Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers would start to enter service in 2017.
This is the pot of money that pays salaries as well as buys aircraft carriers and builds national parks.
According to press reports, these include reductions to fewer than 500 ships and perhaps nine or ten aircraft carriers.
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That includes fighter jets and bombers spread out across air bases in the Middle East and nearby aircraft carriers.
My experience with aircraft carriers goes back to 1976 on USS Franklin D.
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Perhaps most tellingly, no nation is pursuing aircraft carriers more assiduously than China.
The current fleet includes 11 aircraft carriers, with six assigned to the Pacific.
The Appledore yard is earmarked to help build hull sections for two of the UK's next generation of aircraft carriers.
It stretched out construction of aircraft carriers, delayed development of a new long-range bomber, and started over on several helicopters.
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The aircraft carriers that were in the training cycle or undergoing light maintenance were quickly made available for these operations.
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The final Portsmouth-built section of the first of the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers has started its voyage to Scotland.
It and the seven other operational Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the core of the US's world conventional military reach.
One is the management culture in the modern Navy and the other is the protracted life cycles of modern aircraft carriers.
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But a senior MoD source has told the BBC there are no plans for the two countries to share aircraft carriers.
The Navy has five aircraft carriers tied up at its base in Norfolk, Virginia, all subject to various budget constraints.
He also would reduce the fleet of aircraft carriers from 11 to 10 and Navy air wings from 10 to nine.
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The best way to demonstrate why we need eleven aircraft carriers is to look at a recent typical day in the Navy.
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It is one of two aircraft carriers being delivered for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) by BAE Systems, Thales UK and Babcock.
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