Avalon-class

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Avalon-class aircraft carrierWarning: Display title "Avalon-class" overrides earlier display title "Avalon-class aircraft carrier".
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HXMS Avalon during sea trials (2018)
Class overview
Name: Avalon-class aircraft carrier
Builders: Poseidon Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
Operators: Royal Axiomian Navy
Preceded by: Astalar-class
Cost: $8.79 billion per unit (including R&D costs)
Built: 2012-
In service: 2020- (projected)
Planned: 2
Completed: 1
Active: 0
General characteristics
Type: Aircraft carrier
Displacement: 89,400 tonnes (full)
Length:
  • Overall: 322 m (1056 ft)
  • Waterline: 302 m (991 ft)
Beam:
  • Overall: 78 m (256 ft)
  • Waterline: 39.6 m (130 ft)
Draft: 11.6 m (38 ft)
Installed power: 2 x Dalar Atomics A5N nuclear reactors each producing 575 MW (1150 MW total)
Propulsion:
  • Steam turbines, four shafts
  • 290,000 shp (216 MW)
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Range: Unlimited
Capacity: 4,890
Complement: 2,501 sailors and 1,415 air crew
Armament:
  • Anti-air
    • 2 × 16-cell Mk.56 VLS with RIM-162 ESSM
    • 2 x Mk.31 GMWS with 21 RIM-116 RAM missiles each
    • 3 × 30 mm Goalkeeper CIWS
  • Anti-surface
    • 4 x M2 .50-caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns
Aircraft carried:
  • 80~100 fixed, rotary wing and unmanned aircraft
    • 20~30 F-35C Lightnings (stealth multi-role fighter)
    • 6~12 F/A-18F Super Hornets (multi-role strike fighter)
    • 12~24 AM-57N Vindicator (UCAV)
    • 4~6 EA-18G Growler (electronic warfare)
    • 4 E-2D Hawkeye (AWACS)
    • 8 S-3X Vikings (fixed-wing ASW)
    • 6 MH-60R Seahawks (ASW/SAR)
    • 3 V-22 Ospreys or S-3X Vikings (COD)
Aviation facilities:
  • Angled arrested flight deck (321 m × 74 m flight deck)
  • 4 x EMALS catapults