Astalar-class

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Astalar-class aircraft carrierWarning: Display title "Astalar-class" overrides earlier display title "Astalar-class aircraft carrier".
USS Independence (CVA-62) underway at sea, circa in 1971 (NH 97714-KN).jpg
HXMS Krayl during joint RXN-USN exercises (2009)
Class overview
Name: Astalar-class aircraft carrier
Builders: Poseidon Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
Operators: Royal Axiomian Navy
Preceded by: Alexander I-class
Succeeded by: Avalon-class
Cost: $6.85 billion per unit (including R&D costs)
Built: 1994-2001
In service: 2000-present
Planned: 2
Completed: 2
Active: 2
General characteristics
Type: Aircraft carrier
Displacement: 72,900 tonnes (full)
Length:
  • Overall: 315 m (1033 ft)
  • Waterline: 296 m (971 ft)
Beam:
  • Overall: 77 m (253 ft)
  • Waterline: 39 m (128 ft)
Draft: 11 m (36 ft)
Installed power: 2 x Dalar Atomics A3D nuclear reactors each producing 300 MW (600 MW total)
Propulsion:
  • Steam turbines, four shafts
  • 270,000 shp (205 MW)
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Range: Unlimited
Capacity: 4,090
Complement: 2,064 sailors and 1,186 air crew
Armament:
  • Anti-air
    • 2 × 16-cell Mk.48 VLS with RIM-162 ESSM
    • 2 x Mk.31 GMWS with 21 RIM-116 RAM missiles each
    • 3 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
  • Anti-surface
    • 4 x M2 .50-caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns
Aircraft carried:
  • 60~80 fixed, rotary wing and unmanned aircraft
    • 20 F-35C Lightnings (stealth multi-role fighter)
    • 6~12 F/A-18F Super Hornets (multi-role strike fighter)
    • 12~24 AM-57N Vindicator (UCAV)
    • 4 EA-18G Growler (electronic warfare)
    • 3 E-2D Hawkeye (AWACS)
    • 6~8 S-3X Vikings (fixed-wing ASW)
    • 6 MH-60R Seahawks (ASW/SAR)
    • 2~3 V-22 Ospreys or S-3X Vikings (COD)
Aviation facilities:
  • Angled arrested flight deck (307 m × 74 m flight deck)
  • 4 x steam catapults