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Italian aircraft carrier Cavour is a aircraft carrier originating in Italy. It was built by Fincantieri.
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Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Cavour
Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
22 November 2000
Fincantieri
€ 1.39 billion (2010)
17 July 2001
20 July 2004
27 March 2008
10 June 2009
Taranto
Pennant number : 550
In arduis servare mentem Remain calm even in dire straits
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27,100 metric tons (26,700 long tons) (30,000 MT full load)
244 m (800 ft 6 in) LOA
29.1 m (95 ft 6 in) 39 m (127 ft 11 in) moulded breadth
8.7 m (28 ft 7 in)
COGAG scheme 2 × shafts 4 × General Electric/Avio LM2500+ gas turbines providing 88,000 kW (118,000 bhp) 6 × diesel generators Wärtsila CW 12V200 13,200 kW (17,700 bhp)
29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) (Max sustained speed, 85% MCR)
7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
1,202 (90 more on option) of which: 5 Flag Officers and VIPs 486 crew 211 embarked air wing 140 C 4 staff 360 troops (90 more on option)
– Selex RAN-40L 3D L-band long-range radar Selex ES EMPAR (SPY-790) multifunction radar Selex ES RAN-30X/I RASS (SPS-791) surface radar 2 × SELEX ES RTN-25X Orion, fire direction radars PAR (Precision Approach Radar) Selex ES MM/SPN-720 PALS (Precision Approach and Landing System) Telephonics AN/SPN-41A 2 × GEM Elettronica MM/SPN-753(v)10 navigation radars Selex ES SIR-R/S IFF system TACAN SRN-15 A WASS SNA-2000 Mine Avoidance Sonar ( Leonardo Thesan ) 2 × Selex ES IRST SASS (Silent Acquisition and Surveillance System) GEM Elettronica IRST EOSS-100 underwater telephone
Elettronica Spa NETTUNO-4100 ECM System – EW System (RESM/CESM, RECM)
4 × 8-cell A-43 Sylver launchers carrying the MBDA Aster 15 surface-to-air missile 2 × OTO Melara 76/62 mm Strales guns 3 × OTO Melara 25/80 gun with Oerlikon KBA 25mm 2 × ODLS-H/ODLS OTO Melara decoy launching systems
flight deck: 232.60 m (763 ft 1 in) × 34.5 m (113 ft 2 in) 20–30 hangar capacity: 134.2 m (440 ft 3 in) × 21.0 m (68 ft 11 in) 10 × F-35B Lightning II 12 × AgustaWestland AW101 LBA Systems Bayraktar TB3 (future)
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Cavour ( Italian : Portaerei Cavour ) is an Italian aircraft carrier launched in 2004.
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Italian aircraft carrier Cavour equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
ItalyNavy exact named equipment holdings: Cavour. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: PRINCIPAL SURFACE COMBATANTS / CVS. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Reported count for Cavour class. Service scope: Italian Navy ships; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct quantity component(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Explicit source inventory scope: active; no other stock status or total inferred. Count column(s): in service: 1. Origin: unstated. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.