BNM Javier Elías Aguados

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Javier Elías Aguados
INS Vikramaditya (R33) with a Sea Harrier.jpg
Javier Elías Aguados in 2014
Costa Madora
Name: BNM Javier Elías Aguados
Namesake: Javier Elías Aguados
Operator: Madorian Navy
Ordered: 2007
Cost: M₡2.35 billion
Completed: 19 April 2011
Commissioned: 16 November 2012
Status: active
General characteristics
Class and type: Javier Elías Aguados class
Displacement: 45,400 tons of loaded displacement
Length: 284 metres (932 ft) (overall)
Beam: 61 metres (200 ft)
Draught: 10.2 metres (33 ft)
Decks: 22
Installed power: 6 turbo alternators and 6 diesel alternators which generate 18 MWe
Propulsion: 8 turbo-pressurised boilers, 4 shafts, 4 geared steam turbines, generating 180,000 horsepower (134,226 kW)
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range: Unlimited distance; 20–25 years
Endurance: 45 days
Complement: 110 officers and 1500 sailors
Aircraft carried: 30–40 aircraft, including
Aviation facilities:
  • 14-degree ski-jump
  • Three 30 m wide arrester gears and three restraining gears.

BNM Javier Elías Aguados is the flagship of the Madorian Navy. She was commissioned in 2012, and is the TBEth Madorian aircraft carrier, and the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside of the Aurinian Navy. She is named after the TBEth President of Costa Madora, Javier Elías Aguados.