QWS Arsenio Fontes

2 Quetanan Navy Z-11 Eagles fly over QWS Arsenio Fontes, October 2023
History
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Name:	QWS Arsenio Fontes
Namesake:	Arsenio Fontes
Operator:	Quetanan Navy
Ordered:	10 April 2017
Cost:	Programme cost: Q6.1 billion Unit cost: Q3 billion
Commissioned:	14 October 2023
In service:	2023
Homeport:	QNB Ledua
Motto:	Semper Eadem ("Always the Same")
Status:	In active service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Vasso-class aircraft carrier
Type:	Aircraft supercarrier
Displacement:	65,000 tonnes (64,000 long tons; 72,000 short tons)<
Length:	280 m (920 ft)
Beam:	39 m (128 ft) (waterline) 73 m (240 ft) overall
Draught:	11 m (36 ft)
Decks:	9 decks below the flight deck
Propulsion:	Integrated electric propulsion powered by two Marine 36 MW MT30 gas turbine alternators and four 10 MW diesel engines
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h)
Range:	10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km)
Boats & landing craft carried:	2x (36 man) passenger transport boats 2x 24 RHIBs
Capacity:	1,600
Troops:	250
Complement:	679
Sensors and processing systems:	S1850M long range radar Type 997 medium range radar UI Series 2500 Electro Optical System (EOS)
Armament:	3 x Phalanx CIWS 4 x 30mm DS30M Mk2 guns (for but not with) 6 x Miniguns
Aircraft carried:	Planned carrier air wing of 24 to 36 Z-14 and 14 helicopters for the ship's first deployment in 2013 (65+ aircraft carried at surge capacity) Z-17 Condor TAH-473 Egret TAH-60 Kingfisher Marlin H4 and HC4 Abecro AH1 and HMA2 Airo Crowsnest AEW
Aviation facilities:	Hangar below deck Two aircraft lifts Refuelling and re-arming facilities Ski jump

The QWS Arsenio Fontes is the second ship of the Vasso-class of aircraft carriers in the Quetanan Navy. Capable of carrying 60 aircraft including fixed wing, rotary wing and autonomous vehicles, she is named in honor of Arsenio Fontes, the 14th President of Quetana and an admiral of the Quetanan Navy. She was ordered in 2017, launched and commissioned in 2023. The development and construction of the Arsenio Fontes was delayed multiple times, as the National Assembly of Quetana frequently debated military spending and necessity for aircraft carriers when the navy had often been suplemented or supported by Zamastanian Talon-class nuclear aircraft carriers.