Swedish Navy Launches Aircraft Carrier Group:
Today saw the official launching in Karlstad of the Swedish Navy's new aircraft carrier group, consisting of one nuclear aircraft carrier, two frigates, three destroyers, five submarines, and a score of other support vessels. All the ships are one fifth their normal size and the crews consist of specially trained elite lemurs. The aircraft carrier is thus too short for fighter jets to land on and take off from, but SAAB is supplementing the vertical landing capability of the JAS 41 Griffin fighter jet (which, unfortunately tends to the destroy the landing pad, and the aircraft) with a vertical take-off capability. Once this is done, Göta Canal will be widened to allow the Navy vessels to reach Göteborg and the North Sea, as the launch was conducted in Lake Vänern, the third largest lake in Europe.
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