Wednesday, October 27, 2010
A Quarter Of The World’s Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Will Soon Be In The Arabian Sea
A quarter of the world’s nuclear aircraft carriers will soon be in the Arabian Sea.
The Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the region on October 17 to join the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, which in turn had arrived there on June 18 as part of a regular rotation.
The Charles de Gaulle, flagship of the French navy, the country’s only aircraft carrier and the sole non-American nuclear carrier, will soon join its two U.S. counterparts. The U.S. possesses half the world’s twenty-two aircraft carriers, all eleven supercarriers (those displacing over 70,000 tons) and eleven of twelve nuclear carriers.
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My Comment: With much of the world's oil supplies passing through this region, it is only natural that the world's navies will be present in this region.
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