Invincible-class aircraft carriers

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 m
Beam
- 36 m
Draft
- 7.6 m
Displacement
- 22,000 t
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 130 mm
- 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