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To: sukhoi-30mki

Seems rather restricted in terms of space to park a full contingent of planes. The Nimitz and Enterprise class carriers all carry at least 60 planes.


2 posted on 05/10/2012 11:41:01 PM PDT by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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To: Sparticus

Well, that’s why the Nimitz and Enterprise are called SUPER-carriers :)
Those two are really really big. Prolly 3 times as big as other carriers that other countries have. Nimitz class carriers have about 100000 long tons displacement. While the Indo-russian one is about 44000 lt.
And also only the US has super carriers. No other country does. Not even the yester-era USSR. Russia never bothered to build carriers as their naval policy was centered around subs.


3 posted on 05/11/2012 6:40:19 AM PDT by coldphoenix
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