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n. (context informal English) The largest type of aircraft carrier, usually displacing over 70,000 long tons.
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Supercarrier is an unofficial descriptive term for the largest type of aircraft carrier, typically those displacing over 70,000 tons (64,000 metric tons). Supercarriers are the largest warships ever built, larger than the largest battleship class laid down by any country. The United States Navy has ten active supercarriers , while the United Kingdom will have two—the s and the second which are currently being built, and are expected to enter service in 2018.
Outside the US, there are more light carriers closer to 30,000 tons, such as Italy's . A few countries operate medium-sized fleet carriers of around 40,000 tons, such as the French aircraft carrier .
Supercarrier is a 1988 ABC television series. It features US Navy Pilots aboard the fictional aircraft carrier USS Georgetown, and ran for eight episodes before being cancelled.
Usage examples of "supercarrier".
Archer and Athans dogfought the stationary cannons, while Athans's comrades utilized their diversion to loop around to the rear of the supercarrier and seemed to dock on the rear end of the deck.
From the flight decks of the fortress and the two immense supercarriers that had been joined to it like stupendous metal forearms, Veritechs swarmed out to take up their places.
Minmei filled up his thoughts as the VT was catapulted off the hurricane bow of the supercarrier and launched into space.
The two supercarriers anchored among the flotilla of ships in the harbor were of the new Thor class-each longer than a 150-story office building resting on its side-yet they were modest in comparison to the battle fortress.
At a distance of a few hundred yards, the titantic shapes of the two supercarriers could be seen clearly amid the cloud of debris and wreckage, the drifting automobiles and furniture, and the more ghastly remains of human victims of the tragedy.
Not the least of them was the work of the disposal teams, whose grim job was to remove the dead from the supercarriers and other areas where they were encountered.
In the blizzard of explosions and ordnance and fighter drives, the supercarriers swung from positions more or less alongside the SDF-1's stern, port and starboard, to a deployment that left them angled out from the hull.
The two supercarriers floated at anchor, giving the corroding derelict added buoyancy.
Battle groups and supercarriers together were coming under especially heavy fire as Congress and budget-management people at the White House looked for big and expensive military programs to cut.
Second of the Soviet supercarriers, he was laid down at the Nikolayev south shipyard in December of 1985 and completed in 1991.
Flat-bottomed cargo crafts ferried supplies to and from the supercarriers still attached to the SDF-1, while launches carried night-shift work crews away from the SDF-2, back to back with its mother ship and rapidly nearing completion.
The supercarriers that were its arms were held out in that characteristic gesture of supplication, and already the main guns were elevating into position above the knight's visored helmet.
The fortress took the full power of these against its back and itself exploded, blowing the supercarriers from their mountings and ripping away the battle-scarred armor that had seen so much violence.
Our people will take heart with the knowledge that one of America's supercarriers is anchored at Sattahip.