aircraft carriers

Back in the saddle again! These several months worth of repairs were caused by damage less severe than a single missile hit.

Repairs complete, the GW heads to Japan | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
The carrier George Washington [CVN-73] left San Diego on Thursday, bound once again for Japan after undergoing several months of repairs caused by a shipboard fire.

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Nimble Books author David Axe is aboard the U.S.S. Kearsarge for two weeks.

War Is Boring
She’s 41,000 tons of fun. 844 feet long and 106 feet wide, USS Kearsarge, the third Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, joined the fleet in 1993.

This will be significant if it happens.

Part of what’s going on here is jostling for position in a warming Arctic Ocean. A few Russian carriers in an unfrozen Arctic Ocean would make a difficult challenge for the U.S. and Canada. We would struggle to extend carrier power into an ocean that is literally surrounded by Russian airbases.

Russia to rejuvenate its navy - International Herald Tribune

Russia will build five or six aircraft carrier battle groups in the near future, the RIA news agency quoted a navy commander, Vladimir Vysotsky, as saying at Navy Day festivities in St Petersburg.

“We call this a sea-borne aircraft carrier system that will be based on the Northern and Pacific fleets,” Vysotsky said. “The creation of such systems will begin after 2012.”