Aircraft Carrier Alternatives: These are The Navy’s Best Options

By Daniel Feininger – SlashGear

For roughly 100 years, the aircraft carrier has sailed the open ocean. The ship began to take shape in the early 1900s, and the United States’ first operational carrier, the USS Langley, launched in 1922. It wasn’t the hulking mass of a ship like later aircraft carriers, but USS Langley proved a crucial tool of warfare. There was a use for sea-bound, mobile air power, and it could transform the course of battle across both oceans and nearby shores.