How Many Fighter Jets Can A US Aircraft Carrier Hold?
How Many Fighter Jets Can A US Aircraft Carrier Hold? Aircraft carriers are the largest and most technologically advanced weapons of war. While they’re impressive naval vessels, they’re also mobile airports, and without an aircraft carrier’s large number of support jets and helicopters, it’s little more than a floating island (though it does have defensive capabilities). A carrier’s strength lies in its aircraft, but modern carriers don’t simply throw as many planes onto a vessel as possible and call it a day — a lot of engineering goes into determining the right number of aircraft a carrier can hold....