: a warship with a flight deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed
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The plan also describes major changes to the fleet, such as adding many autonomous ships, buying new submarines, and retiring older aircraft carriers and submarines.—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 12 May 2026 Project leaders liken the task to building a ship inside a glass bottle—except the neck of the bottle is a mile long, and the ship is a one-tenth-scale aircraft carrier.—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 May 2026 France’s only aircraft carrier headed toward the Arabian Gulf, oil fell below $100 a barrel, and stocks rose on optimism that US-Iran talks could lead to a durable peace.—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 May 2026 Meanwhile, France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea in preparation for a potential French-British mission in the strait.—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for aircraft carrier