Additional Info

• Ships in class

  NAME	NUMBER	LAUNCHED	COMMISSIONED	DECOMMISSIONED
  HMS Invincible	R 05	3 May 1977	11 July 1980	3 August 2005
  HMS Illustrious	R 06	1 December 1978	20 June 1982	2014
  HMS Ark Royal	R 07	2 June 1981	1 November 1985	11 March 2011

• Length
  • 210 meters
• Beam
  • 36 meters
• Draft
  • 7.6 meters
• Displacement
  • 22,000 tons
• Propulsion
  • COGAG (COmbined Gas And Gas)
  • 4 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines
• Electric power
  • 8 diesel-generator Paxman Valenta
• Speed
  • 28 knots
• Range
  • 5.000 NM at 18 knots
• Complement
  • Crew:650
  • Air group: 350
  • Landing Force500
• Sensors
  • Air radar: BAE Type 996
  • Surface radar: Signaal Type 1022
  • Navigation radar: 2 Kelvin Hughes Type 1007
  • Precision approach radar : Finmeccanica SPN-720
  • TACAN TRN 26(M)
• ESM/ECM
  • Thales UAT Mod. 1
• Countermeasures
  • 8 Sea Gnat 130mm
  • SLQ-25 Nixie towed decoy
• Systems
  • Combat System: ADAWS 20 Ed. 3
  • Data Link-11
  • Data Link-16
  • WECDIS (Warship Electronic Chart Display and Information System)
  • AIS (Automatic Identification System)
  • CSS (Command Support System)
  • Communications system: BOWMAN
• Weapons
  • 3 CIWS (Close-in Weapon System) Signaal Goalkeeper
  • 2 Oerlikon/BMARC GAM-BO1 of 20 mm.
• Aircraft carried
  • Capacity up to 22 aircraft including Sea King Mk.4, Westland Lynx Mk. 7, CH-47 Chinook, Apache, Agusta Westland AW101 Merlin