Painlevé-class fleet carrier

Class overview
Builders:	Chantiers Impériaux Arsenal de Villaroche
Operators:	Sieuxerr
Preceded by:	Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier
Succeeded by:	Bearn-class aircraft carrier Ferdinand Ferber-class aircraft carrier
Cost:	60,000,000 XFP (1965)
Built:	1965–1985
In service:	1973–present
Planned:	4
Completed:	4
Active:	2
Retired:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Fleet carrier
Displacement:	64,000 t
Length:	282 m
Beam:	56 m
Draught:	10 m
Propulsion:	100,000kW 3 × propellers 3 × rudders
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:	7,000 nm (13,000 km)
Complement:	150 officers, 2,000 enlisted + 1,100 aircrew
Armament:	As designed: Missiles: 4 × 8 cell Crotale CN2 launcher (18 missiles)
Aircraft carried:	43 aircraft comprised of: (As of 1984) 12 × SEPECAT Jaguar M 10 × Faucon C 8 × Menace C 4 × Alizé 4 × AS.400E 3 × SA 330 2 × Alouette III
Aviation facilities:	3 catapults, 2 lifts

The Painlevé-class fleet carriers are a series of four aircraft carriers built by Chantiers Impériaux and Arsenal de Villaroche. The carriers were built in collaboration with New Tryan with influences from the Organized States' Forrestal-class aircraft carrier. With four carriers commissioned, only Gallois and Leclair are currently in service still. The previous two, the Arromanches and Painlevé have been decommissioned and retired. They are being replaced by the Bearn-class aircraft carriers and the Ferdinand Ferber-class aircraft carriers.