ZMS Bellete
 ZMS Bellete in Gangkou, 2008
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| Name: | Bellete |
| Laid down: | 27 December 1959 |
| Launched: | 21 May 1961 |
| Commissioned: | 29 April 1961 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 May 2011 |
| Status: | Set to be scrapped |
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| Class and type: | Hamilton-class |
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| Length: | 1,068.9 ft (325.8 m) LOA |
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| Draft: | 38 ft (12 m) |
| Propulsion: | Geared steam turbines, eight steam boilers, four shafts; 280,000 shp (210 MW) |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Complement: | 5,624 officers and men |
| Armament: | Surface-to-air missiles, 2 RAM, 2 CIWS Automated Anti-Missile/Aircraft Defenses |
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The ZMS Bellete is a Hamilton-class aircraft carrier which served in the Zamastanian Naval Forces from 1961 until her decommissioning in 2011. Her 50-year career in the Zamastanian military was the longest of any carrier ship, and with the decommissioning of the ZMS Perigrin in 2007 she became the navy's second-longest active status vessel, after the sailing ship ZMS Hapson. Bellete saw action in the 1983-91 War and 1999-2005 War in Vulkaria, among several humanitarian, international security, and anti-piracy missions. She was the last conventionally-powered aircraft carrier in the Zamastanian Navy, with her decommissioning signalling the sole use of the Talon-class nuclear aircraft carriers. She is scheduled to be scrapped in Anchorhead.