Indeed, several helicopter carriers do carry aircraft capable of VTOL or short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL). A helicopter carrier is, as the name implies, a vessel that carries helicopters.

Japan also has the Izumo-class helicopter carrier, although have been modified to allow them to launch STOVL aircraft. Helicopter carriers are no longer as widespread as they once were.

The Soviet Union’s four Kiev-class aircraft carriers, built in the 1970s, are largely regarded as a failed attempt to match ...

The Kaga is in the process of being converted into a light aircraft carrier, capable of launching and recovering the STOVL variant of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II. Japan's Maritime Self ...

On the other hand, the Admiral supports the indispensability of the F-35B for the Navy to operate from “light” aircraft carriers, advising to divert all the STOVL-models to the Marina Militare.

The UK may revive its airborne nuclear deterrent with F-35A fighters and US B61 bombs, nearly 30 years after retiring its ...

The latter aircraft is destined to be used on the new 65,000-ton carriers now being built by a BAE Systems-led alliance. Britain originally intended to acquire the STOVL F-35B version of the Joint ...

Despite being far smaller than China's carriers, the Italian vessel is outfitted with a ski jump deck, and can operate with sixteen short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft or eighteen ...

Short take-off, vertical landing (STOVL) fighter jets like the F-35B Lighting II are ideal aircraft for STOBAR carriers because they don’t require much of a runway to take off or land.

The next generation of Soviet aircraft carrier, the Kiev class, carried a complement of short-ranged STOVL fighters designed to deter or defeat incursions of anti-submarine aircraft into the ...

Brian "SAK" Kimmins details efforts to establish the Marine Corps F-35B STOVL LSO school at Marine ... explained exists for conventional carrier aircraft on Ep. 178. Follow and Subscribe to ...

That fall, the 800-foot, 27,000-ton warship helped prove the feasibility of the U.S.-Japan light aircraft carrier program when ... off and vertical landing, or STOVL, test on its deck.