World Naval Aviation since 1945
World Naval Aviation since 1945

World Naval Aviation since 1945

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An overview of carrier-borne aircraft since 1945.

Every country with a maritime domain, whatever its extent, maintains a naval air arm. This typically comprises carrier-borne aircraft, land-based maritime patrol aircraft and, in some cases, flying boats. After the Second World War, the maritime powers sought to rebuild their naval air arms in order to be able to operate across all the world's seas and protect their national interests. Initially, for lack of their own resources, it was the United States and Great Britain that provided most of the aircraft carriers and embarked aircraft, before certain countries, such as France, developed their own vessels and aircraft, notably jet-powered ones.

 

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This work of over 200 pages, containing several hundred profiles and photographs, reviews — both alphabetically and chronologically — the naval air arms of every country that possesses one, whether modest in scale, as in the case of Argentina or New Zealand, or on the contrary impressive, most notably the US Navy.

All carrier-borne aircraft, whether conventional or vertical take-off, are reviewed in turn: from fighters to anti-submarine warfare aircraft, taking in multi-engine airborne early warning platforms, thus offering as comprehensive and richly illustrated a panorama as possible of this original and rarely addressed subject.

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