• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    modern flights often happen from aircraft carriers anyway

    Eh, no?

    Aircraft carriers are ridiculously complicated and expensive, hence even the us only having around a dozen or so? Russia famously has none. Great Brittain has like 2 or so, France like 1?

    Its been a while, I don’t remember the exact numbers, but the number of aircraft carriers in the world would be in the very low dozens because they’re damn near unaffordably expensive.

    The beyond vast majority of modern flights still happen from airports

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      I had meant flights of U.S. planes, but you’re right, they usually use and establish local airfields, and probably only use carriers where that’s too slow or impossible.