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Light Aircraft Carrier
A light aircraft carrier, or light fleet carrier, is an aircraft carrier smaller than the Fleet carrier, standard carriers of a navy. The precise definition of the type varies by country; light carriers typically have a complement of aircraft only one-half to two-thirds the size of a full-sized fleet carrier. A light carrier was similar in concept to an escort carrier in most respects; however, light carriers were intended for higher speeds to be deployed alongside fleet carriers, while escort carriers were typically relatively slow and usually defended equally slow convoys, as well as providing air support during amphibious operations. History In World War II, the United States Navy produced a number of light carriers by converting cruiser hulls. These s, converted from light cruisers, were unsatisfactory ships for aviation with their narrow, short decks and slender, high-Sheer (ship), sheer hulls; in virtually all respects the escort carriers were superior aviation vessels. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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INS or Ins may refer to: Places * Ins, Switzerland, a municipality * Creech Air Force Base (IATA airport code INS) * Indonesia, ITF and UNDP code INS * INS Park, an entertainment complex in China Biology *''Ins (fly), Ins'', a New World genus of Bombyliidae, bee flies * INS, the gene for the insulin precursor Arts, entertainment, and media * Indian Newspaper Society * International News Service, US, 1909–1958 Enterprises and organizations * International Necronautical Society * International Network Services Inc. * International Neuroethics Society * International Neuropsychological Society * International Nuclear Services, UK Government and politics * Immigration and Naturalization Service, former US agency merged into DHS * Institut National de la Statistique (other), ''Institut National de la Statistique'' (other), statistics agencies in many Francophone countries * National Institute of Statistics (Romania) Naval * List of active Indian Navy ships, India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawker Siddeley Harrier
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier is a British jet-powered attack aircraft designed and produced by the British aerospace company Hawker Siddeley. It was the first operational ground attack and reconnaissance aircraft with vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) capabilities and the only truly successful V/STOL design of its era. It was the first of the Harrier series of aircraft, being developed directly from the Hawker Siddeley Kestrel prototype aircraft following the cancellation of a more advanced supersonic aircraft, the Hawker Siddeley P.1154. In the mid 1960s, the ''Harrier GR.1'' and ''GR.3'' variants were ordered by the British government for the Royal Air Force (RAF). The Harrier GR.1 made its first flight on 28 December 1967, and entered RAF service in April 1969. During the 1970s, the United States opted to procure the aircraft as the ''AV-8A''; it was operated by the US Marine Corps (USMC). Introduced to service amid the Cold War, the RAF positioned the bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-submarine Warfare Carrier
An anti-submarine warfare carrier (ASW carrier) (US hull classification symbol CVS) is a type of small aircraft carrier whose primary role is as the nucleus of an anti-submarine warfare hunter-killer group. This type of ship came into existence during the Cold War as a development of the escort carriers used in the ASW role in the North Atlantic during World War II. Role After World War II, the main naval threat to most Western nations was confrontation with the Soviet Union. The Soviets ended the war with a small navy and took the route of asymmetric confrontation against Western surface ship superiority by investing heavily in submarines both for attack and later fielding submarine-launched missiles. Several nations who purchased British and US surplus light carriers were most easily able to accommodate slow-moving, less expensive, and easy-to-land anti-submarine aircraft from the 1960s forward, such as the S-2 Tracker, which flew from the decks of US, Canadian, Australian, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22)
HMCS ''Bonaventure'' was a , the third and last aircraft carrier in service with Canada's navy. The aircraft carrier was initially ordered for construction by Britain's Royal Navy as HMS ''Powerful'' during the Second World War. Following the end of the war, construction on the ship was halted and it was not until 1952 that work resumed again, this time to an altered design for the Royal Canadian Navy. The ship entered service in 1957 renamed ''Bonaventure'' and, until the vessel's decommissioning in 1970, was involved in major NATO fleet-at-sea patrols and naval exercises and participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis. During her career ''Bonaventure'' carried three hull identification numbers, RML 22, RRSM 22 and CVL 22. Following her decommissioning ''Bonaventure'' was sold for scrap and broken up in Taiwan. Description Initially laid down as HMS ''Powerful'' as part of the second batch of the ''Colossus'' class during the Second World War, the vessel's construction was ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
INS Vikrant (1961)
INS ''Vikrant'' (from Sanskrit ''vikrānta'', "courageous") was a of the Indian Navy. The ship was laid down as HMS ''Hercules'' for the British Royal Navy during World War II, but was put on hold when the war ended. India purchased the incomplete carrier in 1957, and construction was completed in 1961. ''Vikrant'' was commissioned as the first aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy and played a key role in enforcing the naval blockade of East Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. In its later years, the ship underwent major refits to embark modern aircraft, before being decommissioned in January 1997. She was preserved as a museum ship in Naval Docks, Mumbai until 2012. In January 2014, the ship was sold through an online auction and scrapped in November 2014 after final clearance from the Supreme Court. History and construction In 1943 the Royal Navy commissioned six light aircraft carriers in an effort to counter the German and Japanese navies. The 1942 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMCS Magnificent (CVL 21)
HMCS ''Magnificent'' (CVL 21) was a light aircraft carrier that served the Royal Canadian Navy from 1948–1957. Initially ordered by the Royal Navy during World War II, the Royal Canadian Navy acquired the ''Magnificent'' while waiting for another aircraft carrier to be completed to their needs and it entered service in 1948 replacing in service HMS Warrior (R31), HMCS ''Warrior'' which had been loaned for two years by the RN. ''Magnificent'' was generally referred to as ''Maggie'' in Canadian service. In 1956, Canada received HMCS Bonaventure, HMCS ''Bonaventure'' and ''Magnificent'' returned to the United Kingdom in 1956, where it remained Reserve Fleet (United Kingdom), in reserve until being Ship breaking, scrapped in 1965. Description and construction The 1942 Design Light Fleet carrier was divided into the original ten ''Colossus''-class ships, followed by the five ''Majestic''-class ships, which had some design changes that accommodated larger and heavier aircraft. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAS Sydney (R17)
HMAS ''Sydney'' (R17/A214/P214/L134) was a light aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was built for the Royal Navy and was launched as HMS ''Terrible'' (93) in 1944, but was not completed before the end of World War II. The carrier was sold to Australia in 1947, completed, and commissioned into the RAN as ''Sydney'' in 1948. ''Sydney'' was the first of three conventional aircraft carriers to serve in the RAN, and operated as the navy's flagship during the early part of her career. From late 1951 to early 1952, she operated off the coast of Korea during the Korean War, making her the first carrier owned by a Commonwealth Dominion, and the only carrier in the RAN, to see wartime service. Retasked as a training vessel following the 1955 arrival of her modernised sister ship, , ''Sydney'' remained in service until 1958, when she was placed in reserve as surplus to requirements. The need for a sealift capability saw the ship modified for service as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAS Melbourne (R21)
HMAS ''Melbourne'' (R21) was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier, ''Majestic''-class light aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1955 until 1982, and was the third and final conventional aircraft carrier to serve in the RAN. ''Melbourne'' was the only Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth naval vessel to sink two friendly warships in peacetime ship collision, collisions. ''Melbourne'' was laid down for the Royal Navy as the lead ship of the ''Majestic'' class in April 1943, and was launched as HMS ''Majestic'' (R77) in February 1945. At the end of the Second World War, work on the ship was suspended until she was purchased by the RAN in 1947. At the time of purchase, it was decided to incorporate new aircraft carrier technologies into the design, making ''Melbourne'' the third ship to be constructed with an angled flight deck. Delays in construction and integrating the enhancements meant that the carrier was not commissioned until 1955. ''Melbou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Vengeance (R71)
HMS ''Vengeance'' (R71) was a light aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II. The carrier served in three navies during her career: the Royal Navy, the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS ''Vengeance'', from 1952 to 1955), and the Brazilian Navy (as NAeL ''Minas Gerais'', from 1956 to 2001). Constructed during World War II, ''Vengeance'' was one of the few ships in her class to be completed before the war's end, but she did not see active service. The ship spent the next few years as an aircraft transport and training carrier before she was sent on an experimental cruise to learn how well ships and personnel could function in extreme Arctic conditions. In late 1952, ''Vengeance'' was loaned to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as a replacement for the delayed aircraft carrier . She remained in Australian waters, operating as an aircraft carrier and training ship, for the majority of her three-year loan, and was returned to the Royal Navy (RN) in August 1955. Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IRIS Shahid Bagheri
The IRIS ''Shahid Bagheri'' is a drone carrier operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy. It is the result of the 2022–2024 conversion of the container ship ''Perarin'', to which was added an angled flightdeck with a ski-jump, in the manner of light aircraft carriers. It is named after Shahid (martyr) Bahman Bagheri, an IRGC commander who died in Pathak, Iraq, in a clash of the Iran–Iraq war. The ship is the first full-service UAV carrier of the IRGC Navy. It was launched at sea for the first sea trials from her home port of Bandar Abbas sometime around 28 November 2024. Her launch underscored Tehran's efforts to project its power overseas, far beyond nearby waters. It was commissioned on 6 February 2025. History ''Shahid Bagheri'' (C-110-4) was previously the container ship ''Perarin'' () from South Korea. The conversion was first spotted on 3 January 2023 in an Iranian dockyard. The most notable feature was an angled flight deck being constructed. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chakri Naruebet 2001
Chakri may refer to: People * Chakri (composer) (1974–2014), Tollywood music director * Chakri Toleti, Indian American screenwriter, director, actor, and visual effects coordinator Other uses * Chakri (noble title), a historical Thai noble title for the king's chief minister, from an epithet of the god Vishnu * Chakri dynasty, the royal house of Thailand * Gujarati name for murukku, an Indian snack * Chakri or ''charkha'', Indian name for the spinning wheel used for making khadi cloth * A small chakram, a throwing weapon * Chakri, Jhelum, a village in Jhelum District, Pakistan * Chakri, an alternative name for the Indian snack Chakli See also *Chakra (other) *Chakram (other) Chakram is a throwing weapon from the Indian subcontinent. Chakram may also refer to: * ''Chakram'' (2003 film), 2003 Indian film * ''Chakram'' (2005 film), 2005 Indian film * Travancore chakram, an obsolete coin of India See also * * Chakra (d ... * Charkha (other) {{d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Amphibious Assault Ship Juan Carlos I (L-61) Underway In The Adriatic Sea, 22 February 2023 (230222-N-MW880-1248) (cropped)
''Juan Carlos I'' is a multi-purpose aircraft carrier-landing helicopter dock (LHD) in the Spanish Navy (''Armada Española''). Similar in role to many aircraft carriers, the amphibious landing ship has a Aircraft ski-jump, ski jump for STOVL operations, and is equipped with the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II attack aircraft. The vessel is named in honour of Juan Carlos I, the former king of Spain. The vessel plays an important role in the fleet, as a platform that replaces the tank landing ships and for supporting the mobility of the Spanish Marines, Marines and the strategic transport of other ground forces, and acts as a platform for Carrier-based aircraft, carrier-based aviation replacing the withdrawn aircraft carrier . Design The design for the ''Buque de Proyección Estratégica'' (Strategic Projection Vessel), as it was initially known, was approved in September 2003. The vessel has a flight deck of , with a ski-jump ramp. The ship's flight deck has eight land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
