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    The Invincible class was a class of light aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Navy. Three ships were constructed: HMS Invincible, HMS Illustrious and...
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    The Centaur class aircraft carrier was the final iteration of the 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier developed by the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy during...
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    HMS Invincible was the Royal Navy's lead ship of her class of three light aircraft carriers. She was launched on 3 May 1977 as the seventh ship to carry...
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    Kuznetsov-class aircraft carriers or British Invincible-class aircraft carriers are included however. Amphibious assault ships, also known as commando carriers...
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  • Thumbnail for Light aircraft carrier
    A light aircraft carrier, or light fleet carrier, is an aircraft carrier smaller than the standard carriers of a navy. The precise definition of the type...
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    centred around the Royal Navy's Invincible-class aircraft carriers until the retirement of their Harrier GR9 strike aircraft in 2011 as a result of the Strategic...
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  • Thumbnail for 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier
    The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier, commonly referred to as the British Light Fleet Carrier, was a light aircraft carrier design created by the Royal...
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    HMS Illustrious (R06) (category Invincible-class aircraft carriers)
    HMS Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and the second of three Invincible-class ships constructed in the late 1970s and early...
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    retirement of the Invincible-class aircraft carrier and Harrier GR9s. During this period, the Royal Navy worked to regenerate its carrier strike capability...
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    The Audacious-class aircraft carriers were a class of aircraft carriers proposed by the British government in the 1930s – 1940s and completed after the...
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  • Invincible class may refer to: Invincible-class battlecruiser, British Royal Navy class in service from 1908 to 1921 Invincible-class aircraft carrier...
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    The aircraft cruiser (also known as aviation cruiser or cruiser-carrier) is a warship that combines the features of the aircraft carrier and a surface...
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  • Thumbnail for Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier
    The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy consists of two vessels. The lead ship of her class, HMS Queen Elizabeth...
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  • was scrapped in 1955. HMS Indomitable was to have been an Invincible-class aircraft carrier. She was renamed HMS Ark Royal in 1978, before being launched...
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  • an Audacious-class aircraft carrier launched in 1950, decommissioned in 1979 HMS Ark Royal (R07), an Invincible-class aircraft carrier, launched in 1981...
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  • Light Fleet Carrier- WWII era served till early 1960s. Centaur-class aircraft carrier- In service 1953 to 1984. Invincible-class aircraft carrier- In service...
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    generation of aircraft carrier, the Invincible class. Numerous naval services have since adopted the ski-jump for their own aircraft carriers and amphibious...
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  • CVA-01 (category Aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy)
    Kingdom aircraft carrier, designed during the 1960s. The ship was intended to be the first of a class that would replace all of the Royal Navy's carriers, most...
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    HMS Ark Royal (R07) (category Invincible-class aircraft carriers)
    Royal was a light aircraft carrier and former flagship of the Royal Navy. She was the third and final vessel of the Invincible class. She was built by...
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  • (1836-1837) Invincible (schooner), used as a transport by the US Army from 1849 to 1851 Invincible-class aircraft carrier, a 1980s British Royal Navy class CVA-01...
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    Type 42 destroyers, the single Type 82 destroyer and the Invincible-class aircraft carriers. Originally developed by Hawker Siddeley, the missile was...
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    carrier. Illustrious (Royal Navy) – an Invincible-class light aircraft carrier, which operated as a helicopter carrier when HMS Ocean was being refitted....
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    Type 42 destroyers and Invincible-class aircraft carriers. The Ikara anti-submarine weapon, later fitted to some Leander-class frigates. A new 113 mm...
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    Kolkata-class guided-missile destroyer (Indian Navy) INS Vikrant (aircraft carrier) (Indian Navy) Type 22 frigate (Batch 3) (Royal Navy) Invincible-class aircraft...
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    British Aerospace Harrier II (category Carrier-based aircraft)
    RAF's Air Command, including deployments on board the navy's Invincible-class aircraft carriers. The Harrier II participated in numerous conflicts, making...
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    Hawker Siddeley Harrier (category Aircraft specs templates using more performance parameter)
    Navy (RN) on Invincible-class aircraft carriers. Both the Sea Harrier and the Harrier fought in the 1982 Falklands War, in which the aircraft proved to be...
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  • and was in service until 1954. HMS Illustrious (R06) was an Invincible-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1982 and decommissioned in 2014. Genoa 1795...
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    Goalkeeper CIWS (category Naval anti-aircraft guns)
    Royal Navy Formerly fitted to two Invincible-class aircraft carriers (HMS Invincible & HMS Illustrious), two Albion-class landing platform dock (replaced...
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    HMS Ark Royal (R09) (category Audacious-class aircraft carriers)
    HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1979, was the Royal Navy's last remaining...
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    Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and light aircraft carrier; an "aircraft maintenance carrier". The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carriers were designed and...
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