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what the heck is NAeL? Mikkalai 21:54, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

According to [1], which seems very knowledgeable, it means "Navio-Aeródromo Ligeiro". So it's not quite the same sort of prefix as "USS" or "HMS", but lots of Brazilian sites use it, including official ones, and it sure beats "Brazilian aircraft carrier" as a article title disambiguator :-) Stan 22:53, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, but this must be in the article, not in the talk. By the way, this is English wikipedia, isn't it? Do you often see "NAeL" in English texts? I mean, were you right when you moved the page? Mikkalai 02:18, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Oh yeah, I forgot to think about what I was doing before moving the page. :-) But seriously, "NAeL Minas Gerais" shows up on plenty of English pages, more than any other alternative I saw. I'll want to research the Brazilian navy a bit more before trying to compose the "official" explanation for the article. Stan 04:23, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I have no opinion on this topic. I kept stirring this issue only because I did google search for "NAeL Minas Gerais". Indeed, I got quite a few hits, but the first three screens of links were all Brazilian sites. I was too lazy to check the remaining 260 hits :-) Mikkalai 08:40, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Unless I am much mistaken, the external link "NAeL Minas Gerais on Google Maps, when anchored in Rio de Janeiro, just beside NAe "São Paulo" " actually shows a French carrier of the Clemenceau class on a port call. The profile matches the French ship, including the sponson locations and the outboard elevater abaft the Island.

You're absolutely right--that's the São Paulo. They changed the satellite image to a newer one--I remember the old one with both carriers and even a frigate in dry-dock.--Dali-Llama 18:36, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Minas Gerais + Sao Paulo & Minas Gerias scrapping --Jor70 22:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

If Minas Gerais recieved these expensive upgrades so late in her career in spite of enduring ongoing machinery problems, it should be mentioned as a subtopic. 67.163.7.98 18:16, 18 July 2007 (UTC)