aircraft carrier

Aside from the cancelled Essex acquisition around the 1950s (even that still leaves me with some confusion). I haven't been able to find much on the other Canadian aircraft carrier design and proposal I have came across (documents pulled from the internet mainly). Here's a list of design and...

I recently had the opportunity to visit NARA's College Park campus this past weekend, which contained four preliminary designs regarding SS Normandie conversions into a troopship or carrier (or both) in the series Preliminary Design Drawings, 1929–1964 (RG 19) that I had the privilege of looking...

Let’s discuss on a pure technical and engineering feasibility perspective. How practical is a jet age upgrade it can be for these two classes of best IJN aircraft carriers and what might be the possible capacity in the 50s or 60s?

Let's suppose for whatever reason China doesn't manage to get Varyag. My preferred TL is for it to somehow get under russian control, eventually refurbished and serving alongside Kuznetsov. With that out of the way, wonder what will be the options/development path for the chinese carrier...

Long-range air-defense, multirole fighter, fixed-wing ASW, long range strike, AWACS, EW. . .they had it all for a while.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/june/recalling-bird-dogs-heroic-carrier-landing https://navalaviationmuseum.org/honoring-heroism-and-humanity/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Midway_(CV-41)

I'm wondering If I should buy this book or not because I bought British Carrier Aviation: The Evolution of the Ships and their Aircraft in the past. Does anyone know more about that book?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/aircraft-carrier-harry-truman-collides-ship-mediterranean-sea/story?id=118787251 WTF??? Is the USN literally asleep at the wheel??? I well remember USN woes from a few years back, but it looks like the rot has resisted any cleaning ship efforts - what gives??? In...

In page 188, https://books.google.com.eg/books?id=y94DAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=airplane+popular+mechanics&hl=ar&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjxJyvvJmLAxWW-wIHHXApN8MQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false

Trying to figure out which countries could actually handle the cost of light fleet carriers in 1946-60, so do we have any actual data at what prices the Colossus and Majestic class ships were sold by Britain in 1946-60? And for that matter how much their modernization with angled fight decks and...

the richelieu hybrid: https://www.laroyale-modelisme.net/t20387-jean-bart-hybride-1-400 (in french)

In the US Carriers book, Friedman mentions that after the war, considerations had to be made in carrier designs for a "14-inch rocket", that did not progress far enough to enter service: The only information on this rocket I could find comes from the Wikipedia article on the Tiny Tim: (I would...

The Iwo Jima (CV-46) of the Essex class was cancelled incomplete after the war. But according to Friedman, there were plans to redesign the ship to alleviate the deficiencies of the Essex class (the plans died with the cancellation of the carrier): Does anyone have information on this redesign?

The first study: Saipan class light carrier. Length: 690.69 feet. Beam: ~180 feet max. 80 bow. Waterline bean: ~90 feet 35,000+ tons for bottom configuration 25+ knots. Aircraft complement: 16 F-35C 2 EWAR drones 4 ASW drones 4 AEW drones 2 helicopters I independently arrived to a...

Why did the Royal Navy choose to convert the HMS Ark Royal to carry Phantoms instead of the HMS Eagle? I read in Hobbs's book that the Ark Royal was in worse condition than the Eagle, so why not convert the better Eagle?

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xC411J7m9 Model of concept

Why Argentine aircraft carriers were unable to carry Super Etendard during the Falklands War? Some information claims that the ship only underwent relevant modifications after the war, including upgrading the catapult and inertial navigation system. The stern lift was welded. There is also...

From another source: https://www.turdef.com/article/design-of-the-turkish-aircraft-carrier-unveiled

Does anyone have any clear overall photos or drawings of the deck markings worn by the Vikrant in the 80s ? When it operated both the Sea Harrier STOVL and the Alizé CATOBAR. At that time she had markings for the Shar similar to those on the Hermes or Illustrious and markings for the Alizés...

Does anyone know anything about this stealth carrier concept, or the stealth aircraft themselves?