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What's the difference between an aircraft carrier and an aircraft cruiser?

idlewords 10y ago
Basically an aircraft carrier that pretends it could be useful without planes. Russia is allowed to move aircraft cruisers of any tonnage through the Dardanelles, but not large aircraft carriers. And that's why the Russian fleet has aircraft cruisers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_...
- trhway 10y ago
  the cruisers don't have catapults. This is why they aren't aircraft carriers and thus allowed through the straits.
  - dogma1138 10y ago
    The fact that these restrictions still exist which make Russia an defacto land locked country is one of the reasons why there is so much tension with Russia. EU/Nato on the West, and south - south west (caspian), China and India in the south - south east, Japan/US in the east/north east and a bunch of ice in the north. With the sea ice melting Russian might actually get a warm water port in Vladivostok and stop trying to invade manchuria/korea every 50-60 years, but at that point we'll be screwed any how.
    - trhway 10y ago
      > The fact that these restrictions still exist which make Russia an defacto land locked country is one of the reasons why there is so much tension with Russia. Since its founding by Vikings almost 1300 years ago Russia has been a pretty aggressively expanding empire through all its history (it was slowed down only for a couple centuries by the more aggressive Mongol empire), so i'd say the tension have pretty good foundation :)
wtbob 10y ago
Technically, all aircraft carriers are aircraft-capable cruisers — that's what the C in CV stands for (not 'carrier'; the V stands for fixed-wing aircraft). An aircraft cruiser is, as idlewords notes, a nice term of art. Wikipedia has an interesting article which doesn't note the legal consequences of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_cruiser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_cruiser
- dogma1138 10y ago
  CV stands for Cruiser Voler or "Aviation Cruiser", N denotes if it's nuclear or not. Since most if not all of the modern classifications were initially defined during the San Remo conference a lot of the naming convention rely on french roots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_classification_symbol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_classification_symbol

Basically an aircraft carrier that pretends it could be useful without planes. Russia is allowed to move aircraft cruisers of any tonnage through the Dardanelles, but not large aircraft carriers. And that's why the Russian fleet has aircraft cruisers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_...

trhway 10y ago
the cruisers don't have catapults. This is why they aren't aircraft carriers and thus allowed through the straits.
- dogma1138 10y ago
  The fact that these restrictions still exist which make Russia an defacto land locked country is one of the reasons why there is so much tension with Russia. EU/Nato on the West, and south - south west (caspian), China and India in the south - south east, Japan/US in the east/north east and a bunch of ice in the north. With the sea ice melting Russian might actually get a warm water port in Vladivostok and stop trying to invade manchuria/korea every 50-60 years, but at that point we'll be screwed any how.
  - trhway 10y ago
    > The fact that these restrictions still exist which make Russia an defacto land locked country is one of the reasons why there is so much tension with Russia. Since its founding by Vikings almost 1300 years ago Russia has been a pretty aggressively expanding empire through all its history (it was slowed down only for a couple centuries by the more aggressive Mongol empire), so i'd say the tension have pretty good foundation :)

wtbob 10y ago

Technically, all aircraft carriers are aircraft-capable cruisers — that's what the C in CV stands for (not 'carrier'; the V stands for fixed-wing aircraft). An aircraft cruiser is, as idlewords notes, a nice term of art. Wikipedia has an interesting article which doesn't note the legal consequences of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_cruiser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_cruiser

dogma1138 10y ago
CV stands for Cruiser Voler or "Aviation Cruiser", N denotes if it's nuclear or not. Since most if not all of the modern classifications were initially defined during the San Remo conference a lot of the naming convention rely on french roots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_classification_symbol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_classification_symbol