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From: willner%cfa183@harvard.harvard.edu (Steve Willner P-316 x57123)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Carrier sizes
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Date: 26 Jan 89 14:51:55 GMT
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From: willner%cfa183@harvard.harvard.edu (Steve Willner P-316 x57123)

> Can a 15,000 ton ship carry Tomcats ?  E2's ?

I've asked this question before but never gotten an answer.  What's the
smallest size carrier that could carry, launch, and recover any of the
aircraft types _normally carried and operationally used_ by the 
supercarriers?  (The numbers of aircraft could be considerably smaller,
of course.)  What type of aircraft sets the limit?