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Naval Nightmares: 5 Worst Aircraft Carriers to Ever 'Go to Sea'
The Japanese carrier Shinano, doomed by compromise and sunk ... the complexities of managing advanced naval aviation platforms. Aircraft carriers are, with the possible exception of submarines ...
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U.S. Marines on a Japanese Carrier
They landed on the deck of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s (JMSDF) ship Izumo off the southeast coast of Japan—the first landing on a Japanese carrier by a U.S. fixed-wing aircraft ...
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China warns of Japanese ‘remilitarization’ following the incorporation of a ‘quasi-aircraft carrier’
“This is yet another 'edge ball' played by the Japanese government... China can only respond to 'Izumo', this light aircraft carrier dressed as an 'escort vessel', by developing a real aircraft ...
Business Insider India7y
See inside the historic World War II-era aircraft carrier that was hit by 4 Japanese kamikazes and a torpedo and served in the Vietnam War
Commissioned in 1943, the Intrepid was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during ... the ship was hit by four Japanese kamikaze planes - suicidal planes loaded with fuel and explosives ...