Template:Class box Invincible aircraft carrier

HMS Illustrious (R06)

[edit] Invincible class VSTOL aircraft carrier

• Builders:  United Kingdom (Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Swan Hunter)
• Displacement: 20,400 tons
• Aircraft: 20 VSTOL aircraft and helicopter
• Armament: 2 x 30 mm Goalkeeper CIWS; 2 x Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
• Powerplant: 4 x gas turbines (97,000 hp)
• Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
• Range: 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
• Ships in class: 3
• Operator:  Royal Navy
• Commissioned: 11 July 1980
• Fate: 2 in service