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All countries bordering the sea have some form of naval aviation, no
matter what size they are, to protect their maritime border. This can
include shore-based patrol aircraft, seaplanes and even
aircraft-carriers.
After World War II many countries sought to enhance their naval airpower
whether to protect themselves or to project power abroad. In the first
instance the USA and Great Britain supplied and maintained the largest
carrier fleets and carrier-borne aircraft until other countries, such as
France began to build their own capabilities.
This 200 page book contains several hundred profiles and photographs,
and reviews, both alphabetically and chronologically, the naval aviation
capabilities of each country that has one, whether small, (e.g.
Argentina or New Zealand, ) or massive, (such as the US Navy.) All the
aircraft on board an aircraft carrier, whether standard or vertical
takeoff, are reviewed, from the fighter to the antisubmarine hunter,
including multiengine aerial surveillance aircraft--thus giving this
original and rarely covered subject a panorama as exhaustive as it is
colorful.