page_title: List of naval ship classes in service
section_title: Aircraft carriers
hierarchical_section_title: List of naval ship classes in service / Aircraft carriers
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial port side view of the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) His Thai Majestys Ship (HTMS), CHAKRI NARUEBET (CVH-911), underway in the Gulf of Thailand during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Exercise 2001.
context_page_description: The list of naval ship classes in service includes all combatant surface classes in service currently with navies or armed forces and auxiliaries in the world. Ships are grouped by type, and listed alphabetically within.
  List of submarine classes in service
  List of auxiliary ship classes in service
context_section_description: Admiral Kuznetsov-class (Project 1143.5) aircraft carrier
  Builders:   Soviet Union /  Ukraine (Black Sea Shipyard in Mykolaiv, Ukraine)
  Displacement:  67,000 tons
  Aircraft:  17 fixed-wing aircraft and 24 helicopters
  Armament:  12 × P-700 Granit SSM; 192 × Tor SAM; 8 × CADS-1 CIWS; 8 × AK-630; 2 × RBU-12000
  Powerplant:  8 boilers, 4 steam turbines (200,000 shp)
  Speed:  32 knots
  Range:  3,850 nmi at 32 knots
  Ships in class:  2
  Operator:   Russian Navy People's Liberation Army Navy
  Commissioned:  1995
  Status:  2 in service
  Cavour-class aircraft carrier
  Builders:  Italy
  Type:  Aircraft carrier
  Displacement:  27,910 tons
  Aircraft:  8 AV-8B Harrier II Plus, 12 EH101 helicopters
  Armament:  4 × A43 SYLVER VLS for 32 Aster 15 SAM, 2 × Otobreda 76 mm gun Davide Strales, 3 × Oerlikon Contraves 25/80 mm Anti-asymmetric attack warfare gun
  Powerplant:  4 × General Electric/Avio LM2500+ gas turbines, 2 shafts, 88.000 KW, 6 × Diesel generators (13.200 KW)
  Speed 29+ knots
  Ships in class: 1
  Operator:   Marina Militare
  Commissioned:  2008
  Status:  In service
  Chakri Naruebet-class aircraft carrier
  Builders:   Spain
  Displacement:  11,486 tons
  Aircraft: 6 AV-8 Harrier II aircraft and 4 S-70B Seahawk helicopter
  Armament: 2 Mistral SAM launchers, 2 12.7 mm MG
  Powerplant:  2 diesels, 2 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 44,250 hp
  Speed:  26 knots
  Ships in class:  1
  Operator:  Royal Thai Navy
  Commissioned:  10 August 1997
  Status:  In service
  Charles de Gaulle-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
  Builders:   France (DCN at Brest, Bretagne)
  Displacement:  40,500 tons
  Aircraft:  40 fixed-wing aircraft (Super Étendard, Rafale M) and helicopter
  Armament:  4 × SYLVER launchers (32 × Aster 15 SAM); 12 × Mistral SAM; 8 × 20 mm guns
  Powerplant:  2 × pressurized water reactors
  Speed:  27 knots
  Ships in class:  1
  Operator:   Marine Nationale
  Commissioned:  18 May 2001
  Status:  In service
  Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
  Builders:   United States
  Displacement:  100,000 tons
  Aircraft:  75+
  Armament: 2 × RIM-162 ESSM launchers, 2 × RIM-116 RAM, 3 × Phalanx CIWS, 4 × M2 .50 Cal. (12.7 mm) machine guns
  Powerplant:  Two A1B nuclear reactors
  Speed:  30 knots
  Ships in class:  1
  Operator:   United States Navy
  Commissioned:  22 Jul 2017
  Status:  1 in service, 2 under construction
  Giuseppe Garibaldi-class aircraft carrier
  Builders:   Italy
  Type:  Aircraft carrier
  Displacement:  13,850 tons
  Aircraft:  16 AV-8B Harrier, 18 Agusta helicopter
  Armament:  MBDA Otomat SSM, Albatros Mark II Aspide SAM, 3 Oto Melara 40 mm/70 mm twin guns, 2 triple-tube torpedo launchers
  Powerplant:  4 × General Electric/Avio LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 81,000 hp
  Speed:  30 knots
  Ships in class:  1
  Operator:   Marina Militare
  Commissioned:  1985
  Status:  In service
  Vikramaditya (modified Kiev)-class aircraft carrier
  Builders:   India (Soviet "Baku" as Kiev-class aircraft carrier /  Russia Sevmash in Severodvinsk)
  Displacement:  45,400
  Aircraft: 30 × fighters and 6 × helicopters
  Armament: Barak 8 SAM, AK-630 CIWS
  Propulsion: 8 turbopressurized boilers, 4 shafts, 4 geared steam turbines, 180,000 hp
  Speed:  in excess of 30 knots
  Ships in class:  1
  Operators:  Indian Navy
  Commissioned:  16 December 2013
  Status: In service
  Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
  Builders:   United States (Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News, Virginia)
  Displacement:  97,000 tons
  Aircraft:  85 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter
  Armament:  4 × Sea Sparrow SAM; 4 × Phalanx CIWS; 42 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile SAM
  Powerplant:  2 × A4W reactors, 4 × steam turbines (260,000 shp)
  Speed:  30+ knots
  Ships in class:  10
  Operator:   United States Navy
  Commissioned:  3 May 1975
  Status:  10 in service
  Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier
  Builders:   United Kingdom (Aircraft Carrier Alliance)
  Displacement:  70,600 tons
  Aircraft:  up to 40 aircraft (50 full load)
  Armament:  At least 3 × Phalanx CIWS; 30-mm DS30M Mk2 guns; Miniguns
  Powerplant:  2 × Rolls-Royce Marine Trent MT30 36 MW (48,000 hp) gas turbine engine;4 × Wärtsilä 38 marine diesel engines (4 × 16V38 11.6 MW or 15,600 hp)
  Speed:  26 
caption: Chakri Naruebet
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