Alexander I-class

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Alexander I-class aircraft carrierWarning: Display title "Alexander I-class" overrides earlier display title "Astalar-class aircraft carrier".
Class overview
HXMS Philip I during Third Axiom War (1984)
Name:	Astalar-class aircraft carrier
Builders:	Varsyn Heavy Industries Poseidon Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering
Operators:	Royal Axiomian Navy
Preceded by:	Golas-class
Succeeded by:	Astalar-class
Cost:	$5.37 billion per unit (including R&D costs)
Built:	1966-1977
In service:	1976-present
Planned:	2
Completed:	2
Active:	1
Laid up:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Aircraft carrier
Displacement:	62,600 tonnes (full)
Length:	list error: <br /> list (help) Overall: 279 m (915 ft) Waterline: 261 m (856 ft)
Beam:	list error: <br /> list (help) Overall: 63 m (253 ft) Waterline: 32 m (105 ft)
Draft:	11 m (36 ft)
Installed power:	Six steam boilers each producing 40 MW (240 MW total)
Propulsion:	list error: <br /> list (help) Three steam turbines, three shafts 135,000 shp (101 MW)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:	7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km)
Capacity:	3,380
Complement:	1,617 sailors and 893 air crew
Armament:	Anti-air 2 × Mk.29 GMLS box launcher with 8 RIM-162 ESSM missiles each 1 x Mk.31 GMWS with 21 RIM-116 RAM missiles 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Anti-surface 4 x M2 .50-caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns
Aircraft carried:	list error: mixed text and list (help) 40~50 fixed and rotary wing aircraft 36 F-24N Zephyrs (multi-role fighter) 2 E-2D Hawkeye (AWACS) 7 MH-60R Seahawks (ASW/SAR) 1 V-22 Osprey (COD)
Aviation facilities:	list error: <br /> list (help) Angled arrested flight deck (272 m × 60 m flight deck) 2 x steam catapults

Alexander I-class

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