A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet and usually provides an offensive capability. These are the largest carriers capable of fast speeds. By comparison, escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships. They were smaller and slower with lower numbers of aircraft carried. Most were built from mercantile hulls or, in the case of merchant aircraft carriers, were bulk cargo ships with a flight deck added on top. Light aircraft carriers were carriers that were fast enough to operate with the fleet but of smaller size with reduced aircraft capacity. Soviet aircraft carriers now in use by Russia are actually called heavy aviation cruisers, these ships while sized in the range of large fleet carriers were designed to deploy alone or with escorts and provide both strong defensive weaponry and heavy offensive missiles equivalent to a guided missile cruiser in addition to supporting fighters and helicopters.
who is the fleet carrier meant to work with
what do they provide
what were escort carriers made for?
what are the ones used by Russia called?
what were they designed for?
what did they support?
which is the fastest?
why do the light aircrafts of a smaller size?
who uses the Soviet carriers now?
what is added on top?
main fleet
A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet
an offensive capability.
usually provides an offensive capability.
to provide defense for convoys of ships.
escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships.
called heavy aviation cruisers
Russia are actually called heavy aviation cruisers
were designed to deploy alone or with escorts
were designed to deploy alone or with escorts
fighters and helicopters.
supporting fighters and helicopters.
A fleet carrier
A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet and usually provides an offensive capability. These are the largest carriers capable of fast speeds. By comparison, escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships. They were smaller and slower with lower numbers of aircraft carried. Most were built from mercantile hulls or, in the case of merchant aircraft carriers, were bulk cargo ships with a flight deck added on top. Light aircraft carriers were carriers that were fast enough to operate with the fleet but of smaller size with reduced aircraft capacity. Soviet aircraft carriers now in use by Russia are actually called heavy aviation cruisers, these ships while sized in the range of large fleet carriers were designed to deploy alone or with escorts and provide both strong defensive weaponry and heavy offensive missiles equivalent to a guided missile cruiser in addition to supporting fighters and helicopters.
reduced aircraft capacity
smaller size with reduced aircraft capacity
Russia
now in use by Russia
flight deck
flight deck added on top