Sentences with phrase «aircraft carrier groups»

Only aircraft carrier groups and the ability to transport an army by sea and air to any locale in the world is power projection.

Moscow has attacked two small countries in continental Europe in the last five years (Estonia via a concerted cyber coercion campaign in 2007, Georgia via a major ground invasion in 2008); routinely drives strategic bombers around UK airspace; and parked an aircraft carrier group in the Moray Firth earlier in 2012.

Not exact matches

We have three aircraft carrier battle groups that will be away from home over Christmas.

Two U.S. carrier groups are very likely to be able to secure the strait and establish air superiority, and even if the Chinese were able to sink both Carriers, the aircraft would just relocate to Taiwan, effectively tripling the Taiwanese Air Force's size.

He wants one of the 11 strike groups — an aircraft carrier and its support vessels — to be completely fossil - fuel free by 2016.

Six years from now, a fossil - fuel - free carrier strike group — including a nuclear - powered aircraft carrier, hybrid electric ships, and biofueled aircraft — will begin missions in international waters.

North Atlantic, the latest production from stalwart avant - garde troupe the Wooster Group, is a sexed up Catch - 22 that follows the travails of an international, Cold War - era peacekeeping force confined to an aircraft carrier while on a classified mission in the North Atlantic.

The Air France - KLM Group has confirmed its order for 25 Boeing 787 - 9 Dreamliner aircraft, with the aim of making the Dreamliner an important component of the carrier's fleet renewal.

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has teamed up with Toyota Boshoku Corporation, part of the Toyota Group, to develop a new economy class seat, which the Japanese carrier will introduce on domestic aircraft in June 2015.

Nira Pereg, group show, Aircraft Carrier: Surveying the Radical Transformation of Israeli Architecture, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York

For the strategic life - span of US carrier groups, see for example Robert Haddick, writing in Small Wars Journal, «Will aircraft carriers really have a 168 - year run?»

Yes, there are likely many politicians, given their incentives, that would love a big new pool of money they could use to send largess, from more health care spending to more aircraft carriers, to their favored constituent groups.