Details

Category: United Kingdom

Published: 22 July 2017

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• Aircraft carriers

• Ships in class

  Name	Number	Launched	Commissioned
  HMS Queen Elizabeth	R 08	17 July 2014
  HMS Prince of Wales	R 09

• Length
  • 284 m
• Beam
  • 73 m
• Draft
  • 11 m
• Displacement
  • 70,600 t
• Propulsion
  • CODLAG (Combined Diesel-Electric and Gas Turbine propulsion)
  • Sistema de mando y control de propulsión de L-3 Communications
  • 2 Rolls Royce Trent MT30 of 36 MW gas turbine.
  • 2 Wartsila 16V38 diesel generator
  • 2 Wartsila 12V38 diesel generator
  • 1 Wartsila 12V200 emergency diesel generator
  • 2 AIM (Advanced Induction Motors).
  • 2 variable pitch propellers of 6.7 m
• Speed
  • 25 knots
• Range
  • 10,000 NM
• Complement
  • Crew: 286 personas
  • Air group: 900
• Sensors
  • Air radar: Thales/BAE Systems Insyte S1850M 3D in D band
  • Air/surface radar: BAE Insyte Type 997 Artisan 3D in E/F band
  • Navigation radar: Sperry Marine VisionMaster
  • Precision approach radar: Selex SPN-720
  • Electro-optical sensor: Ultra Electronics 2500 with Glide Path Camera (GPC)
• Countermeasures
  • Terma Mk-137 SKWS (Soft Kill Weapon System)
  • Type 2170 towed decoy.
• Systems
  • Combat System BAE CMS-1 (Combat Management System)
  • Data Link-11/16/22
• Weapons
  • 3 CIWS Raytheon Phalanx Block 1B
  • 3 guns DS30M Mk-2 of 30 mm
• Aircraft carried
  • Flight deck measures 277 x 73 m
  • Hangar deck measures 155 by 33.5 m
  • Sky jump:.
  • 2 Aircraft lifts (forward and aft)
  • Capacity to accommodate up to 40 aircraft 280 m flight deck, capable of landing Chinook and Merlin helicopters
  • Hangar, capable of accommodating and maintaining fixed and rotary wing aircraft