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These missiles are designed to threaten large surface vessels, including destroyers and aircraft carriers, at significant stand-off distances.
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
The final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, which was modularly constructed like all subsequent carriers in the class from USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) onward, was the second carrier after USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) to feature a modernized, smaller island with a new radar tower.
—Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
The possibility of moving an aircraft carrier out of the Pacific region to the Middle East is contradictory to the widespread expectation from experts and officials that the military would pivot away from the latter to prioritize the threats from Beijing.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 19 Jan. 2026
Well, the president is moving on the Iran front, is moving an aircraft carrier from the Pacific to CENTCOM, to that Mideast region, where there hasn't been an aircraft carrier.
—CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
The final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, which was modularly constructed like all subsequent carriers in the class from USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) onward, was the second carrier after USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) to feature a modernized, smaller island with a new radar tower.
—Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
The possibility of moving an aircraft carrier out of the Pacific region to the Middle East is contradictory to the widespread expectation from experts and officials that the military would pivot away from the latter to prioritize the threats from Beijing.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 19 Jan. 2026
Well, the president is moving on the Iran front, is moving an aircraft carrier from the Pacific to CENTCOM, to that Mideast region, where there hasn't been an aircraft carrier.
—CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
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“Aircraft carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aircraft%20carrier. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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