Top 15 Most powerful aircraft carriers in the world 🌍
1. USS Gerald R Ford Class (CVN-78)
🔹Length: 1,092 ft. (333 m) - 1,106 ft. (337 m)
🔹Beam: 256 ft. (78 m) (flight deck), 134 ft. (41 m)
(waterline)
🔹Height: 250 ft. (76 m)
🔹Displacement: About 100,000 long tons
(100,000 tones) (full load)
🔹Power: Two Bechtel A1B PWR nuclear reactors,
HEU 93.5%
🔹Speed: In excess of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
🔹Range: Unlimited
2. Nimitz Class, USA
🔹Displacement: 100,000t
🔹Length: 1,092 ft. (333 m)
🔹Beam: 252 ft. (77 m)
🔹Draft: 37 ft. (11 m)
🔹Speed: 30+ knots (56+ km/h; 35+ mph)
🔹Range: Unlimited distance; 20–25 years
3. Queen Elizabeth Class, UK
🔹Displacement: around 65,000 tones
🔹Length: 280 meters
Can embark on up to 40 rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, including 36 F-35B jets and four Merlin helicopters
Equipped with the latest technology and automated systems, requiring a relatively small crew of 679 personnel for combat operations
4. Fujian, China
🔹Type 003 class: The Fujian is part of the Type
003 class, which is China’s latest aircraft carrier
design.
🔹Indigenous design: The Fujian is China’s first
indigenously designed aircraft carrier, marking
a significant milestone in China’s naval
capabilities.
🔹CATOBAR: The Fujian is equipped with
catapult-assisted take-offs (CATOBAR), a
technology that improves aircraft launch
accuracy and reliability.
5. Liaoning, China
🔹Length: 305 meters (1,000 feet)
🔹Beam: 60 meters (197 feet)
🔹Draft: 10 meters (33 feet)
🔹Displacement: 50,000 tons
🔹Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h)
🔹Crew: 1,500 personnel
🔹Aircraft: 24 Shenyang J-15 fighter jets, 12 KMAV
Ka-31 helicopters, and 6 Harbin Z-8 helicopters
6. Shandong, China
🔹Type: STOBAR (Short Takeoff But Arrested
Recovery) aircraft carrier
🔹Displacement: 60,000 to 70,000 tons, full load
🔹Length: 305 m (1,000 ft 8 in)
🔹Beam: 75 m (246 ft 1 in)
🔹Propulsion: Conventional steam turbines, 4
shafts
🔹Speed: 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
7. Admiral Kuznetsova, Russia
🔹Length: 305 meters (1,000 ft. 8 in)
🔹Beam: 72 meters (236 ft. 3 in)
🔹Draft: 10 meters (32 ft. 10 in)
🔹Displacement: 43,000 tons (light), 53,000 tons
(standard), 58,600 tons (full load)
🔹Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
🔹Range: 8,500 nautical miles (15,700 km; 9,800
mi)
8. INS Vikrant, India
🔹Displacement: 45,000 tonnes of loaded
displacement
🔹Length: 262 m (860 ft)
🔹Beam: 62 m (203 ft)
🔹Height: 59 m (194 ft)
9. Charles De Gaulle, France
🔹Type: CATOBAR-type aircraft carrier
🔹Displacement: 42,500 tons (full load)
🔹Length: 261.5 meters (857 ft 11 in) LOA
🔹Beam: 64.36 meters (211 ft 2 in) overall, 31.5
meters (103 ft 4 in) waterline
🔹Height: 66.5 meters (218 ft 2 in)
🔹Draught: 9.43 meters (30 ft 11 in)
10. INS Vikramaditya, India
🔹Length: 284 meters (932 ft)
🔹Beam: 61 meters (200 ft)
🔹Displacement: 45,400 tons
🔹Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h)
🔹Range: 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km)
11. Cavour, Italy
🔹Displacement: 27,100 metric tons (26,700 long
tons)
🔹Length: 244 m (800 ft 6 in)
🔹Beam: 29.1 m (95 ft 6 in) - 39 m (127 ft 11 in)
moulded breadth
🔹Draught: 8.7 m (28 ft 7 in)
🔹Propulsion: COGAG scheme, 2 × shafts, 4 ×
General Electric/Avio LM2500+ gas turbines
providing 88,000 kW (118,000 bhp), 6 × diesel
generators Wärtsila CW 12V200 13,200 kW
(17,700 bhp)
🔹Speed: +29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) (Max
sustained speed, 85% MCR)
🔹Range: 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 16
knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
12. Juan Carlos I, Spain
🔹Length: 230.8 meters (757 ft 10 in)
🔹Beam: 32 meters (105 ft 0 in)
🔹Draft: 6.8 meters (22 ft 4 in)
🔹Height: 58 meters (190 ft 3 in)
🔹Displacement: 27,000 tons (amphibious
operations), 24,000 tons (single air component)
13. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy
🔹Displacement: 10,100 tons (standard), 13,850
tons (full load), 14,150 tons (full load, after
2003 MLU)
🔹Length: 180.2 meters (591 ft)
🔹Beam: 33.4 meters (110 ft)
🔹Draught: 8.2 meters (27 ft)
🔹Propulsion: 4 × General Electric/Avio LM2500
gas turbines, 60,400 kW (81,000 hp)
🔹Speed: 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
🔹Range: 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 20
kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
14. HTMS Chakri Naruebet, Thailand
🔹Length: 182 meters (597 feet)
🔹Beam: 23 meters (75 feet)
🔹Draft: 7 meters (23 feet)
🔹Displacement: 11,000 tons
🔹Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h)
🔹Range: 5,000 nautical miles (9,200 km)
🔹Crew: 250-300 personnel
🔹Aircraft: 7 AV-8S Harrier jets (initially), currently
none
15. TCG Anadolu, Turkey
The TCG Anadolu has a length of 231 meters (757 ft 10 in), a beam of 32 meters (105 ft 0 in), a draft of 6.8 meters (22 ft 4 in), and a height of 58 meters (190 ft 3 in). Its displacement is 24,660 tons in “light aircraft carrier” mission configuration and 27,079 tons in “LHD” mission configuration.
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