In December 2019, China commissioned its first domestically built aircraft carrier, Shandong, which was launched in 2017 and completed multiple sea trials during 2018-2019. The HMS Queen Elizabeth leads the Strike Group, which includes nine ships, 15 British and US fighter planes and 11 helicopters. The deployment will include a detachment of US Marine Corps, F-35 Lightning II aircraft and the NavyвЂ™s USS Sullivan. The US and Britain jointly declared forming a CSG 2021 deployment to be led by BritainвЂ™s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth which has a displacement of 60,000 tonnes and can carry up to 60 aircraft. The US Navy maintains nine carrier strike groups. The role being to threaten or strike hostile elements with air power, carry out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and land marines if required. It implies the same as a carrier battle group (CBG). Concept of Carrier Strike Group (CSG)Д¬SG is an operational formation conceived by the US Navy composed of an aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, a destroyer squadron of at least two destroyers or frigates, a carrier air wing of 65 to 70 aircraft and about 7,500 personnel. All US aircraft carriers have nuclear propulsion.

Ford Class, three are ready and the seven are under construction. The ten-ship Nimitz-class has been built and are on active duty. Currently the US Navy is developing only two classes of super carriers - the Nimitz-class and the modern day post-cold war Gerald R. Since then there was no looking back and US has led the development of supercarriers. The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the US Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on March 20, 1922.

The term вЂFleet Air ArmвЂ™ came into being in 1924 and HMS Hermes became the first ship to be designed, built and commissioned as an aircraft carrier. HMS Ark Royal was the first ship designed and built as a seaplane carrier and launched in 1914.

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