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Had this incredibly ambitious plan gone forward, the Montana-class of battleships could have been the largest, best protected, and most heavily armed U.S. warships to ever head to sea.
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Ranked: The Five Best Aircraft Carriers in World History
Size matters here: the bigger the ship, the bigger the hangar and flight decks that accommodate the air wing.
Here’s What You Need to Know: The finest aircraft carrier is one that s both well-suited to its missions and handled with skill and derring-do when and where it matters most.
Anyone who s tried to compare one piece of kit ships, aircraft, weaponry of various types to another will testify to how hard this chore is. Ranking aircraft carriers is no exception. Consulting the pages of
Jane s Fighting Ships or
Combat Fleets of the World sheds some light on the problem. For instance, a flattop whose innards house a nuclear propulsion plant boasts virtually unlimited cruising range, whereas a carrier powered by fossil fuels is tethered to its fuel source. As Alfred Thayer Mahan puts it, a conventional warship bereft of bases or a coterie of logistics ships is a land bird unable to fly far from home.
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