AAircraft carriers
Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi
ASW aircraft cruiser / aircraft carrier
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Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Length
Single source180.2 m (591 ft)[source]
Length
Single sourceConfiguration
| Specification | Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi | Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier |
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| Name | Giuseppe Garibaldi[source] | Queen Elizabeth class[source] |
| Namesake | Giuseppe Garibaldi[source] | — |
| Builder | Fincantieri , Monafalcone Shipyard, Monfalcone ( Gorizia )[source] | — |
| Cost | Lire 428 billion (1981) (equivalent to € 903.63 million in 2019)[source] | £ 7.6 billion (2019) (equivalent to £ 9.4 billion in 2024) for two units[source] |
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrierlarger figure on 2 of 2
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Queen Elizabeth class · Length
Single sourcefull load
Single sourcefull load, after 2003 MLU
Single sourcestandard
Single source- 10,100 t (9,900 long tons) (standard) - 13,850 t (13,630 long tons) (full load) - 14,150 t (13,930 long tons) (full load, after 2003 MLU)[source]
Displacement
Single sourceEst full load
Single sourceMaximum; +
Single source30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)+[source]
at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Single source7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)[source]
- 4 × General Electric/Avio LM2500 gas turbines , 60,400 kW (81,000 hp) - 6 × diesel engine generators Grandi Motori Trieste B230/12, 9,360 kW (12,550 hp) with electric generator Ansaldo-Elettrital, 1,560 kW (2,090 hp) each[source]
2 × Rolls-Royce Marine Trent MT30 gas turbine engine 2 × Wärtsilä 16V38 and 2 x 12V38 marine diesel engines
Single sourceInstalled power
Single sourceTotal
Single source2 × Rolls-Royce Marine Trent MT30 36 MW (48,000 hp) gas turbine engine 2 × Wärtsilä 16V38 and 2 x 12V38 marine diesel engines 40 MW (54,000 hp) Total: 118.4 MW (158,800 hp)[source]
Integrated electric propulsion 4 × GE Power Conversion 20 MW (27,000 hp) Advanced Induction Motors and VDM25000 drives 2 × shafts; fixed pitch propellers[source]
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| Laid down | 26 March 1981[source] | — |
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| Launched | 11 June 1983[source] | — |
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| Commissioned | 30 September 1985[source] | — |
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| Decommissioned | 1 October 2024[source] | — |
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| Home port | Taranto[source] | — |
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| Identification | Pennant number : 551[source] | — |
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| Motto | Obbedisco ("I Obey")[source] | — |
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| Status | Retired, transferred to the Indonesian Navy as KRI Sriwijaya[source] | — |
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| Type | ASW aircraft cruiser / aircraft carrier[source] | Aircraft carrier[source] |
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| Sensors & processing systems | - Selenia MM/SPS-768 (RAN 3L) long-range radar - Selenia SPS-774 (RAN-10S) early warning radar - Hughes AN/SPS-52C early warning, E band radar - Selenia SPS-702 CORA surface search radar - 2 × GEM Elettronica SPN-749 navigation radar - Selenia SPN-728 approach radar - 3 × Selenia RTN-30X fire control radar, for Albatross/Aspide - 3 × Selenia RTN-20X fire control radar, for CIWS 40/70 mm - Raytheon DE 1160 LF hull sonar (replaced by WASS DMS-2000 in 2003) - Selenia CMS SADOC-3 - TACAN Face Standard URN-25[source] | S1850M long-range radar Type 997 Artisan 3D medium range radar Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro Optical System (EOS) Glide path camera (GPC)[source] |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | - Elettronica Spa SLQ-732 jamming system - 2 × OTO Melara SCLAR decoy launcher - AN/SLQ-25 Nixie towed torpedo decoy[source] | — |
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| Armament | 2 × Mk.29 octuple launcher for Sea Sparrow / Selenia Aspide SAM 3 × Oto Melara Twin 40L70 DARDO 2 × 324 mm triple torpedo tubes 4 × Otomat Mk 2 SSMs (removed in 2003)[source] | 3 × Phalanx CIWS 4 × 30-mm DS30M Mk2 guns ( for but not with ) 6 × 7.62 mm Miniguns (retired in 2023 and replaced by 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) Browning heavy machine guns )[source] |
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| Aircraft carried | up to 18 AV-8B Harrier II fighter/bombers Augusta SH-3D or AgustaWestland AW101 helicopters (ASW, ASH and AEW)[source] | 40 aircraft in peacetime 72 aircraft in wartime; typically, F-35B Lightning (Peacetime max of 36) Chinook Apache Merlin HM2, HC4 and Crowsnest AEW Wildcat AH1 and HMA2[source] |
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| Notes | flight deck is length 174.0 m (570.9 ft) and 30.0 m (98.4 ft) wide[source] | — |
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| National origin | Italy[source] | — |
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| Recommissioned | The Italian flag aboard the ship was lowered for the last time on 24 September 2026 and the ship was commissioned into the Indonesian Navy.[source]Exact ship commissioned into Indonesian Navy on24September2026 after Italian1October2024decommissioning; historical Italian retirement retained | — |
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| Builders | — | Aircraft Carrier Alliance[source] |
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| Operators | — | Royal Navy[source] |
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| Preceded by | — | Invincible class[source] |
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| Built | — | 2009–2017[source] |
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| In commission | — | 2017–present[source] |
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| Completed | — |
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| Active | — |
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| Decks | — | 16,000 m 2 (170,000 ft 2 ) 9 decks beneath flightdeck with hangar covering the centrepiece of two decks (without islands)[source] |
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| Troops | — | 250 to 900[source] |
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| Aviation facilities | — | Large flight deck with 12º ski jump Hangar deck - 155 m x 34 m x 7 m Two aircraft lifts - 27 m x 15 m - 54,500 kg max load[source] |
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| Country of origin | — | United Kingdom[source] |
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| Troop capacity | — | 250 to 900[source]Source-stated capacity; all configurations and qualifiers retained |
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Queen Elizabeth class · Displacement
Single source