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A battlecarrier is a large, often hypothetical, hybrid naval ship designed to combine aspects of both an aircraft carrier and either a battleship or battlecruiser. This term is primarily used to refer to the following: the American Midway-class aircraft carrier; the Soviet Kiev-class aircraft carrier
USS Bougainville (CVE-100) was the forty-sixth of fifty Casablanca-class escort carrier built for the United States Navy during World War II.She was named after the Bougainville campaign, a prolonged action against Japanese forces entrenched in the island of Bougainville off Papua New Guinea.
CVBG-5, Battle Carrier Air Group 5 12 December 1946, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 165-46 Navy Air Reserve units at NAS Columbus: November 1946 The "C" code issued to this NAS was a controlled duplicate of the same code letter given to Carrier Air Group 5. Code changed to "7C" in 1956. CVG-6, Carrier Air Group 6Carrier Air Group 6: 1952
Originally laid down as the light cruiser Newark (CL-100), on 26 October 1942 by the New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, New Jersey; redesignated CV-30 and renamed Reprisal on 2 June 1942; renamed San Jacinto on 30 January 1943, converted, while building, to a light aircraft carrier and reclassified as CVL-30; launched on 26 September 1943; sponsored by Mary Gibbs Jones (wife of U.S. Commerce ...
The displacement of the two Project 69-I-class ships increased to 36,250 metric tons (35,677 long tons) at standard load and 42,831 metric tons (42,155 long tons) at full load which increased the draft to 9.7 meters (31 ft 10 in) at full load while the waterline length grew to 242.1 meters (794 ft 3 in) simply because the extra draft submerged ...
USS Bataan (CVL-29/AVT-4), originally planned as USS Buffalo (CL-99) and also classified as CV-29, was an 11,000 ton Independence-class light aircraft carrier which was commissioned in the United States Navy during World War II on 17 November 1943.
USS Lake Champlain (CV/CVA/CVS-39) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy.She was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.
Alekseyev I-21; Alekseyev I-212; Antonov A-40; Ayaks; Bartini Beriev VVA-14; Belyayev DB-LK; Beriev S-13; Bratukhin B-5; Bratukhin B-11; Bratukhin Omega; Chyetverikov SPL