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To: USNBandit

Does it have a hanger deck?


8 posted on 11/17/2015 5:39:42 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Yes, it has a hangar deck. ;-)

Given PGMs and standoff weapons an airwing with 26 strike aircraft (the rest being support: E-2s and helos) is fairly potent. Remember that the key number isn’t actually raw number of aircraft, but rather how many sorties the carrier can generate during the course of operations. There’s a point of diminishing returns where having more aircraft aboard lowers the number of possible sorties.


11 posted on 11/17/2015 5:48:17 AM PST by tanknetter
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