Carrier (Earth-5875)

Carriers are warships capable of carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations.

Role
Larger than cruisers, carriers have a role analogous to seaborne aircraft carriers, it being the deployment of space fighters, such as Type-31 Seraphs and GA-TL1 Longswords. During planetary battles, carriers will typically serve to deploy its infantry troops and dropships to the ground in order to subjulgate the entire planet and its enemies

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 * Infinity-class supercarrier
 * Punic-class supercarrier
 * Epoch-class heavy carrier
 * Orion-class assault carrier

Covenant

 * CSO-class supercarrier
 * CAS-class assault carrier
 * DDS-class carrier

Sangheili

 * Brigantine

Trivia

 * Carrier on Wikipedia.