The rushed, Treasury-driven defence review left Britain without aircraft flying from an aircraft carrier for a decade.
Downing Street, it seems, wanted some positive headlines out of the SDSR, which was largely an exercise in cutbacks, so it decided to back the idea of Britain getting a "grown up" aircraft carrier, ie one launching conventional aircraft with catapults rather than a very large replacement "Harrier Carrier".
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The Navy would still need to maintain the pool of suppliers and skills necessary to build the carrier, many of which are unique to the aircraft carrier enterprise.
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The review, announced by David Cameron in October, included measures to cut military personnel by 17, 000, scrap Nimrod spy planes and retire the HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier leaving Britain without a carrier strike capability until the end of the decade.
Wartime service: During Operation Desert Storm, Keating was deputy commander, Carrier Air Wing 17, participating in combat operations in from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.
The Navy is developing N-UCAS as a stealthy, carrier-based unmanned aircraft that would allow Carrier Strike Groups to operate effectively from outside the envelope of enemy missile threats and could act as a prime hunter against missiles and their launchers before and after launch.
An aircraft carrier and 20 other warships are there, plus more than 170 military aircraft.
Prior to selection for carrier command, captains must serve as the commanding officer of a carrier-based aircraft squadron, complete Navy Nuclear Power training and serve as a carrier executive officer.
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The sprawling aerospace company forged from the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft in 1967 saw its carrier-based A-12 bomber canceled in January, and then lost the competition to build a successor to its signature F-15 fighter three months later.
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In 1967, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal was damaged by fire, killing 130.
Its navy last year commissioned its first aircraft carrier, and it is reportedly building two more.
The sequester cuts will delay the deployment of an aircraft carrier at a crucial time.
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Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is the first of two 65, 000-tonne ships under construction in Scotland.
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The Bush administration has sent another aircraft carrier to the region as a warning to Iran.
The deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf has also been cancelled.
True, they have an aircraft carrier, the 25 de Mayo, as Chile does not.
China is also reportedly close to deploying its first aircraft carrier, a refitted ex-Soviet ship.
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"It's the difference between turning around a PT boat and an aircraft carrier, " says Rodriguez.
"An aircraft carrier is an extremely complex piece of machinery with lots of moving parts, " he explained.
There are huge models of ships scattered throughout the restaurant, including an aircraft carrier in the lobby.
In fact, American pilots even flew French fighter jets off a French aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean.
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The combatant commanders request aircraft carrier presence the same way they request ground troops or aircraft deployments.
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Work starts on five more in 2001 -- including a submarine and the country's first aircraft carrier.
The development of an aircraft carrier has long been promoted as a symbol of rising national strength.
DC, the air wing of an aircraft carrier could attack 200 targets in one day in 1991.
Mr Hammond later visited Rosyth where he saw work being carried out on aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.
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It was one of the first ships to be converted to an aircraft carrier during World War I.
One of the Navy's premier warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pier-side in Norfolk, Va.
It remained on the aircraft carrier until 2007 and was then moved to a storage facility in Connecticut.
The war's main aircraft carrier, HMS Hermes, was about to be decommissioned as unsuitable for fighting Soviet submarines.
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