List of aircraft carriers by configuration
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The list of aircraft carriers by configuration contains aircraft carriers organized by the specific configuration of aircraft carrier designs.
Carrier configurations
There are three main configurations of aircraft carrier in service in the worlds navies:
- Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR)
- Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (STOBAR)
- Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL)
- Russian Navy
- Kuznetsov class
- Chinese Navy
- Kuznetsov class
- Indian Navy
- Modified Kiev class
- Italian Navy
- Spanish Navy
- Indian Navy
- Centaur class
- Thai Navy
- United States Navy