Spain Plans Its First Aircraft Carrier Capable of Operating US-Style CATOBAR Fighters
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In Juan Carlos I, the largest Spanish vessel, only aircraft capable of landing vertically can operate. Currently, only the U.S. fighter aircraft presents this quality.
Spain plans its first aircraft carrier capable of operating US-style CATOBAR fighters
Without a doubt, this could be the news of the day, and even the year, in the field of naval defense in Spain, if confirmed. The plans of the Spanish Navy for two aircraft carriers and the future embarked fighter The Spanish Navy's alternatives if the government does not approve the purchase of F-35 fighters […]
The Navy is already planning to acquire a new aircraft carrier, the first conventional, which could operate up to 30 state-of-the-art fighter planes and whose model would be inspired by the French Charles de Gaulle, the flagship of the French navy.Continue reading...
The Spanish Navy has commissioned a feasibility study to Navantia to incorporate into its fleet an aircraft carrier, which will join the only portae...
The sources cite the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, of about 40,000 tons and more than 260 meters in length, to sketch a concept that still has to be defined.The development of an aircraft carrier is less complex than that of a frigate, for example, so it does not pose a particularly complicated challenge for Navantia, which is about to launch (next September) the first unit of the new F-110, in which the works are proving particular…
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