Astalar-class

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Astalar-class aircraft carrierWarning: Display title "Astalar-class" overrides earlier display title "Astalar-class aircraft carrier".
Class overview
HXMS Krayl during joint RXN-USN exercises (2009)
Name:	Astalar-class aircraft carrier
Builders:	Poseidon Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
Operators:	Royal Axiomian Navy
Preceded by:	Alexander I-class
Succeeded by:	Avalon-class
Cost:	$6.85 billion per unit (including R&D costs)
Built:	1994-2001
In service:	2000-present
Planned:	2
Completed:	2
Active:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Aircraft carrier
Displacement:	72,900 tonnes (full)
Length:	Overall: 315 m (1033 ft) Waterline: 296 m (971 ft)
Beam:	Overall: 77 m (253 ft) Waterline: 39 m (128 ft)
Draft:	11 m (36 ft)
Installed power:	2 x Dalar Atomics A3D nuclear reactors each producing 300 MW (600 MW total)
Propulsion:	Steam turbines, four shafts 270,000 shp (205 MW)
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h)
Range:	Unlimited
Capacity:	4,090
Complement:	2,064 sailors and 1,186 air crew
Armament:	Anti-air 2 × 16-cell Mk.48 VLS with RIM-162 ESSM 2 x Mk.31 GMWS with 21 RIM-116 RAM missiles each 3 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Anti-surface 4 x M2 .50-caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns
Aircraft carried:	60~80 fixed, rotary wing and unmanned aircraft 20 F-35C Lightnings (stealth multi-role fighter) 6~12 F/A-18F Super Hornets (multi-role strike fighter) 12~24 AM-57N Vindicator (UCAV) 4 EA-18G Growler (electronic warfare) 3 E-2D Hawkeye (AWACS) 6~8 S-3X Vikings (fixed-wing ASW) 6 MH-60R Seahawks (ASW/SAR) 2~3 V-22 Ospreys or S-3X Vikings (COD)
Aviation facilities:	Angled arrested flight deck (307 m × 74 m flight deck) 4 x steam catapults

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