A battlecarrier is a large, often hypothetical, hybrid

naval ship A naval ship (or naval vessel) is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) that is used by a navy. Naval ships are differentiated from civilian ships by construction and purpose. Generally, naval ships are damage resili ...

designed to combine aspects of both an

aircraft carrier An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities for supporting, arming, deploying and recovering carrier-based aircraft, shipborne aircraft. Typically it is the ...

and either a

battleship A battleship is a large, heavily naval armour, armored warship with a main battery consisting of large naval gun, guns, designed to serve as a capital ship. From their advent in the late 1880s, battleships were among the largest and most form ...

battlecruiser The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar in displacement, armament and cost to battleships, but differed in form and balance of att ...

. This term is primarily used to refer to the following: *the American *the Soviet *the Japanese s after their conversion to hybrid carriers *various plans to modernize the American s into aircraft carriers, such as the Interdiction Assault ShipHoppe, 2022. *a plan to finish the building of Jean-Bart battleship in USA as a battlecarrier. Since the early 1930s many plans and projects to make a ''battlecarrier'' was made, such a project which was close to being built was a project made by the

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and the

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, but was cancelled. Battlecarriers, theoretically, would perform poorly in battle if they were created. Their hangar and flight deck is inviting for enemy attacks and due to the same hangar, less armament can be carried, and vice versa.

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* Hoppe, Jon

''The Iowa-Class Battlecarrier: A Design that Never "Took Off."'' Naval History Magazine, June 2022. * Purssell, Robert

''Battlecarrier: Why the Navy Converted a Battlecruiser Into an Aircraft Carrier.'' The National Interest. February 28, 2021.

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