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:	1960–1990
In service:	1969–present
Planned:	4
Completed:	4
Active:	2
Lost:	1
Retired:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Fleet carrier
Displacement:	45,000 t
Length:	286 m
Beam:	58 m
Draught:	10 m
Propulsion:	150,000kW 4 × propellers 4 × rudders
Speed:	33 knots (56 km/h)
Range:	7,000 nm (13,000 km)
Complement:	150 officers, 2,000 enlisted + 1,100 aircrew
Armament:	As designed: Guns: 8 × 100mm/55 Model 1968 CADAM Missiles: 2 × SMLM launcher*(44+2 MASURCA I/II 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:	2 catapults, 2 lifts

The Painlevé-class fleet carriers are a series of four aircraft carriers built by Chantiers Impériaux and Arsenal de Villaroche. With four carriers commissioned, only Gallois and Leclair are currently in service still. In 1978, the Quérangal was destroyed by two Tyrannian tactical nuclear strikes during the Sieuxerr-Tyrannian Conflict of 1978. The other carrier, Painlevé, was retired in 1989 just before the Bearn-class came into service. They are being replaced by the Bearn-class aircraft carriers and the Ferdinand Ferber-class aircraft carriers.