A nuclear-powered aircraft is a concept for an aircraft intended to be powered by nuclear energy. The intention was to produce a jet engine that would...
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11 carriers, all nuclear-powered: USS Enterprise: in service 1962–2012, powered by eight reactor units, is still the only aircraft carrier to house more...
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has 11 aircraft carriers and 70 submarines in service, that are all powered by nuclear reactors. For more detailed articles see: See Nuclear marine propulsion...
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as an engine in a nuclear-powered bomber aircraft. The advantage of a nuclear-powered aircraft over a conventionally-powered aircraft is that it could...
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Below is a list of nuclear powered aircraft and concepts: Trakimavičius, Lukas. "The Future Role of Nuclear Propulsion in the Military" (PDF). NATO Energy...
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year the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is due to be retired. The ship will be nuclear-powered and will feature the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch...
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Project 1143.7, was a fixed-wing aircraft carrier laid down on 25 November 1988 as the first of a class of Soviet nuclear-powered supercarriers. It was intended...
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USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), the Navy's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, to form Task Force One, an all-nuclear-powered naval unit. They would commence Operation...
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A nuclear navy, or nuclear-powered navy, refers to the portion of a navy consisting of naval ships powered by nuclear marine propulsion. The concept was...
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Convair X-6 (category Nuclear-powered aircraft)
experimental aircraft project to develop and evaluate a nuclear-powered jet aircraft. The project was to use a Convair B-36 bomber as a testbed aircraft, and...
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Convair NB-36H (category Nuclear-powered aircraft)
Crusader", it was created for the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program (ANP for short), to show the feasibility of a nuclear-powered bomber. Its development ended...
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The Nimitz class is a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the United States Navy. The lead ship of the class is named after...
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The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire...
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race to build a new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier". Defense News. Retrieved 2020-12-09. "France begins deliberations on new aircraft carrier". Reuters...
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The Aircraft Carrier (Medium) (CVV) was an American design for a conventional-powered (i.e. non-nuclear-powered) aircraft carrier proposed in the 1970s...
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nuclear reactors that power the submarines and aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. Operating more than 80 nuclear-powered ships, the United States...
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A1B reactor (category Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers)
United States Navy for the Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Each ship will be powered by two A1B reactors. The new reactor was named...
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Corporation, the owner of Dalian Shipyard, suggested that the nuclear-powered Type 004 aircraft carrier would be part of its portfolio as well. In April 2018...
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of nuclear power stations List of nuclear submarines – nuclear-powered subs with nuclear reactors List of sunken nuclear submarines List of nuclear-powered...
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builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two shipyards capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines. The division's...
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2001, is the tenth French aircraft carrier, the first French nuclear-powered surface vessel, and the only nuclear-powered carrier completed outside of...
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Newport News Shipbuilding began the deactivation of the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which it also built. Newport...
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INS Vishal (redirect from INS Vishal- Vikrant class aircraft carrier)
preference to nuclear powered and conventional submarines in future sea-warfare, has decided that it will now begin planning the third aircraft carrier, INS...
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Planned: Type 004: a planned nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.[citation needed] Active: Charles de Gaulle: nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in service since...
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Tupolev Tu-95LAL (category Nuclear-powered aircraft)
power the aircraft. During the Cold War the USSR had an experimental nuclear aircraft program. Without the need to refuel, a nuclear-powered aircraft...
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WS-125 (category Nuclear-powered aircraft)
develop a nuclear-powered aircraft. In 1954, the United States Air Force (USAF) issued a weapons system requirement for a nuclear-powered bomber, designated...
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Lockheed CL-1201 (category Nuclear-powered aircraft)
giant 6,000 ton nuclear-powered transport aircraft in the late 1960s. One envisioned use of the concept was as an airborne aircraft carrier. The CL-1201...
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practical nuclear power was the U.S. Navy, with the S1W reactor for the purpose of propelling submarines and aircraft carriers. The first nuclear-powered submarine...
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nuclear powered carriers in 1956. The first carrier to receive this suffix was USS Enterprise, commissioned in 1961. The last conventionally powered carrier...
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reactor for the purpose of propelling submarines and aircraft carriers. The first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, was put to sea in January 1954...
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