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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
by 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 agoCV 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