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No, aircraft carriers are not specially excluded. But the tonnage limit excludes them in practice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_
by idlewords 10y ago
No, aircraft carriers are not specially excluded. But the tonnage limit excludes them in practice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_...
- int_19h 10y agoAircraft carriers are specifically excluded from the "capital ship" category, and said category does not have the tonnage limit for Black Sea states. Hence why USSR created this thing - because it is a missile cruiser (that just happens to double as a carrier), it's a capital ship, so it can be as large as it needs to be.