Aircraft carrier (Red Alert 3)

The largest naval vessel in service of the Allied Forces is the aircraft carrier. A fully fledged capital ship, it is the equivalent of the Soviet Dreadnought.

The ship carries a contingent of three Hornet VTOL attack jets and a specialized industrial plant capable of repairing, rearming and rebuilding the jets. Before launch, the jets are prepared on the launch pad in front of the ship and are deployed according to the orders of the commanding officer. The carrier has no offensive systems of its own and has to rely on supporting vessels to protect him while it is rearming.

Though intimidating the carrier was rather easily sunk by Typhoon Attack Submarines, Boomers, and giant squids as they lacked anti submarine weaponary. They were also ironicly vulnerable to aircraft as their hornets were built as bombers which prevented them from engaging any enemy aircraft. Their hornets could be easily downed by even the lightest of anti-air weaponary as they had very weak armour as evidenced when some soviet commander's downed the hornet's of a carrier with flak troopers. This however turned them into suicide bombers as they caused tremendous damage when crashing into enenmy structures.