Classes
- United States class (1950s): Single-unit laid down, cancelled along with four others
- Forrestal class (1955): Four-unit class, all decommissioned
- Kitty Hawk class (1961): Four-unit class, all decommissioned
- Enterprise class (1961): Six-unit class, five cancelled, one still active
- CVA-01 (United Kingdom 1960s): Two-unit class, both cancelled
- Project 1153 Orel (1970s): Cancelled
- Nimitz class (1975): 10 unit class, all active.
- Admiral Kuznetsov class (1990): Single-unit, active
- Ulyanovsk class (1990s): Two units cancelled after partial completion
- Gerald R. Ford class (2015): Two units in construction, one ordered, further seven planned
- Queen Elizabeth class (2016-2018): Two units under construction
- Future French aircraft carrier (projected 2017): One unit proposed
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Famous quotes containing the word classes:
“The difference between people isn’t in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people—life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.”
—Hannah More (1745–1833)