Alexander I-class

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Alexander I-class aircraft carrier
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HXMS Philip I during Third Axiom War (1984)
Class overview
Name: Astalar-class aircraft carrier
Builders:
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
Retired: 1
General characteristics
Type: Aircraft carrier
Displacement: 62,600 tonnes (full)
Length:
  • Overall: 279 m (915 ft)
  • Waterline: 261 m (856 ft)
Beam:
  • 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:
  • 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:
  • 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)
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Angled arrested flight deck (272 m × 60 m flight deck)
2 x steam catapults