{"id":28046,"date":"2022-08-14T19:01:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T18:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28046"},"modified":"2022-08-14T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T18:17:53","slug":"aircraft-carriers-how-many-of-them-are-there-and-who-has-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28046","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft carriers: how many of them are there and who has them?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Currently I&#8217;m reading a book by American researcher Rush Doshi entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Long-Game-Strategy-Displacement-American\/dp\/0197527914\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3223W5LT7TU3B&amp;keywords=the+long+game+rush+doshi&amp;qid=1660499894&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=The+Long+Game%2Cstripbooks%2C68&amp;sr=1-1\"><strong>&#8220;The Long Game&#8221;<\/strong> <\/a> and subtitled <strong>&#8220;China&#8217;s grand strategy to displace American order&#8221;<\/strong>. Recently I read the section on China&#8217;s development of aircraft carriers which led me to wonder: how many aircraft carriers are there in the world and which nations have them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual, a good source is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_service\">the relevant Wikipedia page<\/a>. From this, we learn that at present there are 46 aircraft carriers in service. The countries that have such vessels are Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of these nations &#8211; 10 out of 14 &#8211; only have one or two (Russia only has one just now and the UK only has two). Two them have four: China and Japan (but China has two more undergoing trials). Not surprisingly, the US has the most: 20 with another six in reserve, undergoing trials, or under construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m no military expert, but I wonder how vulnerable aircraft carriers are in the age of cruise missiles. I hope that we never have to find out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I&#8217;m reading a book by American researcher Rush Doshi entitled &#8220;The Long Game&#8221; and subtitled &#8220;China&#8217;s grand strategy to displace American order&#8221;. Recently I read the section on China&#8217;s development of aircraft carriers which led me to wonder: how many aircraft carriers are there in the world and which nations have them? As usual, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28046"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28053,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28046\/revisions\/28053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}