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- Carrier
- Aircraft Carrier
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- Because of its air
- power and long-range
- attack potential, the
- aircraft carrier has
- become the capital ship
- at the end of World War
- II. The supercarrier
- has steam catapults,
- angled deck and mirror
- landing system. It
- performs both attack
- and anti-submarine
- warfare functions.
- It usually carries a
- squadron of 9 to 12
- aircraft with 200 per-
- sonnel, officers and
- enlisted men. Defensive
- armament includes
- small, short-range
- missiles and fast-firing
- radar-guided multi-
- barrelled cannons.
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