Question: Why did China purchase the STOBAR carrier Liaoning in 1998?
Answer: on the pretext of use as a floating casino

Question: What is Liaoning classifed as?
Answer: a training ship

Question: What is the Liaoning intended to help the navy practice with?
Answer: carrier usage

Question: Why is Liaoning not assigned to any of China's operation fleets?
Answer: it is a training ship

Question: Why did the Chinese PLA Navy need 4-5 years for Liaoning to reach full capacity?
Answer: this is the first aircraft carrier in their possession

Question: Who started construction of a 40,000-tonne Vikrant-class carrier in 2009?
Answer: India

Question: What will power the Indian-made ship?
Answer: four gas-turbine engines

Question: What will the range of the Indian-made ship be, carrying 160 officers, 1400 sailers, and 30 aircraft?
Answer: 8,000 nautical miles

Question: Who is constructing the Indian-made ship?
Answer: Cochin Shipyard

Question: When was the Indian-made ship launched?
Answer: August 2013

Question: What were carriers used for in the early 20th century?
Answer: to deploy balloons

Question: As of 3/3/2016, how many active aircraft carriers are there worldwide?
Answer: thirty-seven

Question: What is another name for the 10 large nuclear-powered carriers operated by the U.S. Navy?
Answer: supercarriers

Question: How many aircraft can supercarriers carry?
Answer: up to 90

Question: Who owns the largest carriers in the world?
Answer: The United States Navy

Question: What is the definition of an "aircraft carrier"?
Answer: There is no single definition

Question: How may aircraft carriers be classified?
Answer: according to the type of aircraft they carry and their operational assignments

Question: Who is Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope?
Answer: former head of the Royal Navy

Question: Who said, "countries that aspire to strategic international influence have aircraft carriers"?
Answer: Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope

Question: What dramatically changed naval combat in World War II?
Answer: The aircraft carrier

Question: What drove the advent of carrier-launched aircraft as focal weapons?
Answer: the superior range, flexibility and effectiveness

Question: Why were carrier-launched aircraft more effective than naval guns?
Answer: They had higher range and precision

Question: What was signalled in 1940 when HMS Illustrious launched an strike on an Italian fleet?
Answer: the beginning of the effective and highly mobile aircraft strikes

Question: What event showed the vulnerability of carriers when forced into gun-range enounters?
Answer: the sinking of HMS Glorious by German battleships

Question: What develpment produced the first large fleet ships?
Answer: flattop vessels

Question: What was the world's first carrier capable of launching and recovering naval aircraft?
Answer: HMS Argus

Question: What did the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 limit?
Answer: the construction of new heavy surface combat ships

Question: What caused early aircraft carriers to be made up of conversions of ships that were previously cargo ships, cruisers or battlecruisers?
Answer: Washington Naval Treaty of 1922

Question: What type of aircraft carriers did these ship conversions give rise to in 1927?
Answer: Lexington-class

Question: What does EMALS stand for?
Answer: Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System

Question: Who developed EMALS?
Answer: General Atomics

Question: What do EMALS enable the launching of?
Answer: varied aircraft including unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV)

Question: Who was impressed by the demonstration of EMALS by General Atomics?
Answer: Indian Navy officers

Question: How many in-service aircraft carriers are aimed for with EMALS?
Answer: three

Question: What was the August 2013 launching ceremony in Yokohama held for?
Answer: Japan's largest military ship since World War II

Question: How many helicopters can simultaneously land on Japan's largest military ship?
Answer: five

Question: How long is Japan's largest military ship?
Answer: 820-foot-long (250 m)

Question: How many troops can Japan's largest military ship carry?
Answer: 400

Question: How much does Japan's largest military ship weigh?
Answer: 19,500-ton

Question: What will some of the current US fleet of Nimitz-class carriers be replaced with?
Answer: the ten-ship Gerald R. Ford class

Question: Which feature of the new ships will replace the old steam catapults?
Answer: Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS)

Question: When is the USS Enterprise scheduled to be decommissioned?
Answer: 2016

Question: How much does the Gerald R. Ford-class carrier weigh?
Answer: 100,000 ton

Question: How much does the America-class amphibious assault ship weigh?
Answer: 45,000 ton

Question: What type of aircraft have no need to decelerate?
Answer: VTOL-capable or helicopters

Question: What does the angled deck separate the recovery operation area from?
Answer: the launch area

Question: What does V/STOL refer to?
Answer: aircraft capable of vertical or short take-off and landing

Question: What capability do helicopters use to move over the flight deck and land vertically?
Answer: hover

Question: What don't helicopters need because of having hover capablility?
Answer: arresting gear

Question: What feature was pioneered on the HMS Hermes in 1923?
Answer: an island

Question: What is concentrated in the small area called an island?
Answer: The superstructure of a carrier

Question: Other than Japanese carriers, which side of the flight deck are islands typically built on?
Answer: starboard

Question: What was the biggest drawback to the flush deck configuration?
Answer: management of the exhaust from the power plant

Question: What was a major issue in the USS Langley?
Answer: Fumes coming across the deck

Question: What is the name of the 42,000 tonne nuclear-powered carrier commissioned in 2001?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle

Question: What is the Charles de Gaulle the flagship of?
Answer: the French Navy

Question: What type of missiles does the Charles de Gaulle carry?
Answer: Aster

Question: What is another name for the French Navy?
Answer: Marine Nationale

Question: What type of carrier is the Charles de Gaulle?
Answer: CATOBAR

Question: How many new carriers per year did the House Armed Services Seapower subcommittee recommend in 7/24/07?
Answer: one every four years

Question: What class does the USS America belong to?
Answer: America-class amphibious assault ships

Question: How many supercarriers did the U.S. fleet have following the deactivation of the USS Enterprise?
Answer: 10

Question: What is the USS America capable of destroying squadrons of?
Answer: F-35Bs

Question: Which other carrier joins the USS America in active service?
Answer: USS Tripoli

Question: Why have aircraft carriers increased in size since World War II?
Answer: to accommodate a steady increase in aircraft size

Question: How much more displacement does the modern Nimitz class have compared to the older USS Enterprise?
Answer: nearly four times

Question: Why do nations risk significant political impacts if a carrier is lost or even used in conflict?
Answer: Today's aircraft carriers are so expensive

Question: Which era does the USS Enterprise belong to?
Answer: World War II

Question: What does LSO stand for?
Answer: landing signal officer

Question: Who does a conventional aircraft rely upon to moniter the aircraft's approach and transmit the data to the pilot?
Answer: a landing signal officer

Question: What did LSO's use to signal corrections to the pilot prior to the angled deck designs introduced in the 1950's?
Answer: colored paddles

Question: Which visual landing aids have provided information on proper glide slope since the late 1950's?
Answer: Optical Landing System

Question: What are LSO's still being used to do?
Answer: transmit voice calls to approaching pilots by radio