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🇫🇷 Charles de Gaulle (R91)
Naval · Direction des Constructions Navales (DCNS / Naval Group) — Fransa 🇫🇷 · 2001
The world's only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside the US. Two K15 reactors give it unlimited range, and its steam-catapult (CATOBAR) deck launches Rafale M fighters and fixed-wing E-2C Hawkeye early-warning aircraft — making it a full-weight strike platform despite its mid-size.
Specifications
- Type: Nuclear aircraft carrier (CATOBAR)
- Displacement: ~42,500 t (full load)
- Length: 261.5 m
- Propulsion: 2× Areva K15 pressurized-water reactors (PWR)
- Max speed: ~50 km/h (27 knot)
- Catapults: 2× 75 m C13-3 steam catapults (bow + waist)
- Air group: ~30 Rafale M + 2 E-2C Hawkeye + helicopters
- Aircraft capacity: 30-40 aircraft
- Crew: ~1,350 ship + 600 air group
Beats: Çin Liaoning (ski-jump STOBAR; sabit-kanat AEW yok, konvansiyonel tahrik), Çin Shandong (ski-jump STOBAR; mancınık ve nükleer tahrik yok)
Loses to: ABD USS Gerald R. Ford (EMALS, ~75 uçak, çok daha büyük hava grubu), ABD USS Nimitz sınıfı (iki reaktör, daha büyük güverte ve uçak sayısı)
Mid-size but, with nuclear power + catapults + fixed-wing AEW, the only full-capability strike carrier outside the US; it falls below the numerically larger US supercarriers.
Related systems
Related systems (Naval): TCG Anadolu, TF-2000, Atmaca, AKYA, ORKA, MARLİN SİDA, Hisar Sınıfı ADKG, MİLGEM, Reis Sınıfı, ULAQ
