Template:Class box Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier

Charles de Gaulle (R 91)

[edit] Charles de Gaulle nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

• Builders:  France (DCN at Brest, Bretagne)
• Displacement: 40,500 tons
• Aircraft: 40 fixed-wing aircraft and helicotper
• Armament: 4 x SYLVER launchers (32 x Aster 15 SAM); 12 x Mistral SAM; 8 x 20 mm guns
• Powerplant: 2 x pressurized water reactors
• Speed: 27 knots
• Ships in class: 1
• Operator:  Marine nationale
• Commissioned: 18 May 2001
• Fate: In service