Vengeance-class aircraft carrier
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 GCNS Vengeance transiting the Zheng Mou Sea.
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Vengeance-class aircraft carrier |
| Builders: | Dalian Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering |
| Operators: |
 Grand Chilokveri Navy |
| Built: | 1980-1992 |
| In service: | 1984-present |
| Planned: | 3 |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Active: | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Aircraft carrier |
| Displacement: | 80,000 tonnes |
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| Beam: |
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| Draft: | 11 m (36 ft) |
| Decks: | 14,700 square metres |
| Installed power: | 2 x Fushan Atomics CV2 nuclear reactors each producing 300 MW, total 600,000 kW |
| Propulsion: | Four shafts driving 5 bladed CP propellors |
| Speed: | 30+ knots (56 km/h) |
| Range: | Unlimited |
| Armament: |
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| Aircraft carried: | 75+ fixed and rotary wing aircraft |
| Aviation facilities: |
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Armour and protection
While largely protected by their escorts, defensive weaponry and countermeasures, the Vengeance class also feature passive design features which maximise their survivability against enemy attack. These include damage control features, but also compartmentalisation and armour. While exact details are classified, the Vengeance class are known to have been constructed with up to 50 mm of Kevlar armour over vital spaces such as the weapons magazines, aviation fuel storage tanks, propulsive machinery and nuclear reactors for protection against spalling and shrapnel. The carriers are also built with an armored flight deck incorporated into the ship's structure, side armour, blast-resistant bulkheads