supercarrierEtymologyFrom super- + carrier.nounThe largest type of aircraft carrier, usually displacing over 70,000 long tons.“Even the Navy has jumped back into the Osprey game with the decision to use a variant of the V-22 as a replacement for the aging C-2 Greyhound, a fixed-wing cargo plane used to ferry material and personnel on and off Navy supercarriers at sea. And other nations are now interested in procuring the V-22.”