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🇮🇹 Cavour
Naval · Fincantieri (İtalya) · 2008
The flagship STOVL aircraft carrier of the Italian Navy that launches F-35B fighters off a ski-jump ramp.
Specifications
- Class: STOVL aircraft carrier (ski-jump ramp)
- Full-load displacement: ~30,000 t
- Length / Beam: 244 m / 29.1 m (waterline)
- Propulsion: 4× LM2500+ gas turbines (COGAG), ~88,000 kW
- Speed: 29 knots (~54 km/h)
- Range: ~7,000 nmi at 16 knots
- Air group: 10× F-35B + ~12× AW101/helicopters
- Air defense: 32× Aster 15 (Sylver), 2× 76 mm guns, 3× 25 mm
- Crew: ~1,200
Beats: Juan Carlos I (gerçek 5. nesil F-35B hava grubu + adanmış uçak gemisi rolü), Izumo (kendini-savunma Aster 15 + ski-jump kalkış avantajı)
Loses to: Queen Elizabeth sınıfı (65.000 t gövde, 24+ F-35B, çok daha büyük sorti üretimi), ABD Nimitz/Ford sınıfı süper uçak gemileri (CATOBAR, kat kat büyük hava grubu)
Its mid-size hull can't reach Queen Elizabeth's large air group; but with the ski-jump, Aster defense and vehicle-bay flexibility it lets a single EU nation run a 5th-gen task group on its own.
Related systems
Related systems (Naval): TCG Anadolu, TF-2000, Atmaca, AKYA, ORKA, MARLİN SİDA, Hisar Sınıfı ADKG, MİLGEM, Reis Sınıfı, ULAQ