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1) Nimitz Class, US - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier
2) Admiral Kuznetsov, Russian Federation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Kuznetsov
3) Liaoning, China - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_Liaoning
4) Charles de Gaulle (R91), France - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Charles_de_Gaulle_(R91)
5) São Paulo (A12), Brazil - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_aircraft_carrier_S%C3%A3o_Paulo_(A12)
6) Cavour (550), Italy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_aircraft_carrier_Cavour_(550)
7) INS Viraat, India - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Viraat_(R22)
8) HMS Illustrious (R06), UK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Illustrious_(R06)
9) Giuseppe Garibaldi (551), Italy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_aircraft_carrier_Giuseppe_Garibaldi_(551)
10) HTMS Chakri Naruebet, Thailand - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTMS_Chakri_Naruebet
1) The world's largest aircraft carrier.a full load displacement of 97,000t,
2) second largest aircraft carrier. It has a displacement of 58,500t to 67,500t.
3) Its flight deck can house about 50 aircraft, including fixed wing planes and helicopters.
4) The largest warship in Western Europe. It is also the only nuclear-powered carrier in service outside of the US Navy.
5) The fifth biggest aircraft carrier.
6) The world's sixth largest aircraft carrier.
7) The seventh largest aircraft carrier in the world.
8) Eighth largest aircraft carrier in the world and the only Invincible Class aircraft carrier currently in service.
9) Rhe world's ninth biggest aircraft carrier.
10) The tenth largest aircraft carrier in the world.
Source:
http://www.naval-technology.com/features/feature-the-10-biggest-aircraft-carriers/
An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft, that serves as a seagoing airbase. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations. It is extremely expensive to build and important to protect. Aircraft carriers have evolved from converted cruisers to nuclear-powered warships that carry numerous fighter planes, strike aircraft, helicopters, and other types of aircraft.
There is no single definition of an "aircraft carrier", and modern navies use several variants of the type. These variants are sometimes categorized as sub-types of aircraft carriers, and sometimes as distinct types of aviation-capable ships. Aircraft carriers may be classified according to the type of aircraft they carry and their operational assignments. Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, former head of the Royal Navy, has said that "To put it simply, countries that aspire to strategic international influence have aircraft carriers".
Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear-powered warships that carry dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets and helicopters. As of 19 June 2014, there are thirty-seven active aircraft carriers in the world within twelve navies. The United States Navy has ten large nuclear-powered carriers, known as supercarriers, carrying up to ninety aircraft, the largest carriers in the world. As well as the supercarrier fleet, the US Navy has nine amphibious assault ships used primarily for helicopters (sometimes called helicopter carriers); these can also carry up to twenty-five fighter jets, and in some cases are as large as some other nations' fixed-wing carriers.
A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet and usually provides an offensive capability. These are the largest carriers capable of fast speeds. By comparison, escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships. They were smaller and slower with lower numbers of aircraft carried. Most were built from mercantile hulls or, in the case of merchant aircraft carriers, were bulk cargo ships with a flight deck added on top. Light aircraft carriers were carriers that were fast enough to operate wi
