Question: What are the soviet aircraft carriers used by Russia actually called?
Answer: heavy aviation cruisers

Question: What type of aircraft carrier was the USS Bogue?
Answer: Escort

Question: What type of aircraft was the USS Independence?
Answer: light

Question: What advantage did light carriers have over escort carriers?
Answer: speed

Question: What was the expected serice life of the UK 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier?
Answer: 3 years

Question: Who did the UK 1941 Design Light Fleet Carriers serve during the war?
Answer: Royal Navy

Question: When did Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation expect to begin design work for a new carrier?
Answer: 2016

Question: What year was the goal for Russia's new carrier to achieve initial operational capability?
Answer: 2023

Question: What was Izvestiya?
Answer: Russian newspaper

Question: Where was the Northern Fleets nuclear-powered aircraft carrier supposed to be stationed?
Answer: Murmansk

Question: Where was the Pacific Fleets nuclear-powered aircraft carrier supposed to be stationed?
Answer: Vladivostok

Question: What are typically regarded as "runways at sea"?
Answer: aircraft carriers

Question: What design feature do aircraft carriers feature to aid in launching and recovering aircraft?
Answer: flat-top flight deck

Question: Where are the most notable differences between a carrier and a land runway found?
Answer: The flight deck

Question: What is a primary reason that ships have shorter runways than land runways have?
Answer: a full-length runway would be costly to construct and maintain

Question: What do aircraft need to do when using shorter runway lengths?
Answer: accelerate more quickly to gain lift

Question: When did conventional carriers start recovering aircraft at an angle to port of the axial line of the ship?
Answer: early 1950s

Question: What risk is avoided by aircraft by using an angled deck?
Answer: hitting aircraft parked forward

Question: How many "waist" catapults can be installed with an angled deck?
Answer: one or two

Question: How man bow cats can be installed with an angled deck?
Answer: two

Question: What aircraft design feature improves launch and recovery cycle flexibilty?
Answer: An angled deck

Question: Where are ski-jump ramps located on aircraft carriers?
Answer: the forward end of the flight deck

Question: What did ski-jump ramps allow STOVL aircraft to do that they couldn't do with a flat deck??
Answer: take off at far higher weights

Question: Who originally developed the ski-jump ramp?
Answer: the Royal Navy

Question: What does a ski-jump ramp convert in order to be successful?
Answer: some of the forward rolling movement of the aircraft into vertical velocity

Question: What does the ski-jump ramp prevent a fully loaded and fueled aircraft from doing?
Answer: either stalling out or crashing directly into the sea

Question: What type of flight decks are aircraft carriers equipped with?
Answer: full-length

Question: What purpose do aircraft carriers serve for aircraft?
Answer: carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering

Question: Typically, what is the capital ship of any fleet?
Answer: An aircraft carrier

Question: What have the old converted cruiser aircraft carriers evolved into?
Answer: nuclear-powered warships

Question: What do aircraft carriers allow naval forces to accomplish?
Answer: project air power worldwide without depending on local bases

Question: In what year was the advent of heavier-than-air fixed-wing aircraft?
Answer: 1903

Question: In what year was the first experimental take-off of an airplane?
Answer: 1910

Question: In what year were the first experimental landings of an airplane?
Answer: 1911

Question: What was the first carrier-launched airstrike?
Answer: the Tondern Raid in July 1918

Question: What did the Imperial Japanese Navy Wakamiya conduct in September 1914?
Answer: the world's first successful ship-launched air raid

Question: Which ship was originally known as being the capital ship of the fleet?
Answer: the battleship

Question: When did aircraft carriers begin being know as the capital ship of the fleet?
Answer: World War II

Question: What type of carrier is capable of displacing 75,000 tonnes or greater?
Answer: Supercarriers

Question: Which ships are used for carrying and landing Marines?
Answer: Amphibious assault ships

Question: What do Amphibious assalut ships need a large contingent of for carrying Marines?
Answer: helicopters

Question: Who is in the process of procuring two Canbera-class LHD's?
Answer: The Royal Australian Navy

Question: How large will the two Canbera-class LDH's be?
Answer: the largest in Australian naval history

Question: How many troops can be maintained on a Canbera-class LHD?
Answer: 1,000 troops and their supporting vehicles

Question: What is one primary role of the Canbera-class LDH?
Answer: to embark, transport and deploy an embarked force

Question: How many helicopters is the LHD capable of launching?
Answer: multiple helicopters at one time

Question: What is the British Navy constructing to replace their three Invincible-class carriers?
Answer: two new larger STOVL aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth class

Question: What will the 2 Queen Elizabeth class ships be named?
Answer: HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales

Question: When are the 2 Queen Elizabeth class ships due to become operational?
Answer: 2020

Question: How many tonnes can the Queen Elizabeth class ships displace?
Answer: 70,600

Question: How large will the two Queen Elizabeth ships be?
Answer: the largest warships ever built for the Royal Navy

Question: Why do the constraints of constructing a flight deck affect the role of a carrier?
Answer: they influence the weight, type, and configuration of the aircraft that may be launched

Question: What are assisted launch mechanisms primarily used for?
Answer: heavy aircraft

Question: What does CATOBAR allow for?
Answer: deployment of heavy jets with full loadouts

Question: Why is STOVL used by other navies?
Answer: it is cheaper to operate

Question: Why do almost all carriers using conventional aircraft have arrested-recovery systems?
Answer: conventional aircraft cannot decelerate on their own

Question: What is the purpose of an arrested-recovery system?
Answer: to recover their aircraft

Question: What do aircraft do when landing in order to stop on a short distance?
Answer: extend a tailhook that catches on arrestor wires stretched across the deck

Question: What does a landing area angles off access allow an aircraft to do if if misses the arresting wires?
Answer: bolt

Question: What can a "bolt" prevent an aircraft from doing?
Answer: crashing into aircraft on the forward deck

Question: What are 3 key personnel involved in the flight deck?
Answer: the shooters, the handler, and the air boss

Question: What are shooters responsible for?
Answer: launching aircraft

Question: What is the handler responsible for?
Answer: the movement of aircraft before launching and after recovery

Question: Where does the captain of the ship spend most of his time?
Answer: on the Navigation Bridge

Question: Who is the Flag Bridge area of the ship designated for?
Answer: the embarked admiral and his staff

Question: What is the disadvantage of the ski-jump?
Answer: the penalty it exacts on aircraft size, payload, and fuel load

Question: What cannot launch using a ski-jump due to their high loaded weight?
Answer: heavily laden aircraft

Question: What do heavily laden aircraft sometimes require the assistance from?
Answer: a catapult or JATO rocket

Question: Why is a ski-jump not included on mixed flight deck operations where helicopters are present?
Answer: would eliminate one or more helicopter landing areas

Question: How is the Russian SU-33 able to launch from the carrier Admiral Kuznetsov?
Answer: with a minimal armament and fuel load