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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_s... I can't see any metric by wh

• ceejayoz 6y ago
  This is counting some carrier-like ships that aren't technically full-blown carriers. The Australian ships, for example, are "landing helicopter dock" ships. The Japanese ones are "helicopter destroyers" due (due to a prohibition in the Japanese constitution, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Cons... some are still being converted to carry the F-35). A number of the American carriers on the list - the USS Wasp, for example - are actually things like "amphibious assault ships".
  • rozab 6y ago
    But even ordering by the penultimate column (leaving only 'aircraft carriers' according to Wikipedia), still leaves the UK and China with two supercarriers each
    • ceejayoz 6y ago
      Which fits with what the original poster stated: > no country has more than two of them at the moment Having even one puts you on a pretty small list.
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