Victorious-class Aircraft Carrier
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The Victorious-class Aircraft Carrrier is a class of nuclear powered supercarrier in service in the Royal Canadian Navy from 2023 onwards. It is based on the original blueprints of the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-67) before its conversion to steam power.
Specificatons[edit]
- Type: Nuclear powered Supercarrier (Hull designation symbol CVN)
- Service Period: 2023-
- Characteristics
- Length: 1,052 feet (320.65 meters) (Extreme); 990 feet (301.75 meters) (Waterline)
- Beam: 252 feet (76.81 meters) (Extreme); 130 feet (39.63 meters) (Waterline)
- Draft: 37 feet (11.28 meters) (Maximum); 39 feet (11.89 meters) (Limit)
- Displacement (Light): 63,155 tons
- Displacement (Full Load): 88,750 tons
- Displacement (Dead Weight): 29,595 tons
- Capacity: 5,075
- Crew: 3,100 (1,272 officers and 1,828 enlisted)
- Endurance: 75 days of food, self-sufficient in water
- Electrical Power: 280 MW
- Power: 288,000 shp
- Range: Unlimited
- Speed: 35 Knots (64.82 km/hr)
- Propulsion:
- 4 x PBMR/AECL 105 MWt pebble-bed type nuclear reactors
- 12 x General Motors Model 265TNV turbodiesel backup engines with Western Electric 5 MW AC generators
- 8 x Vektris Engineering turbines and 35 MWe AC electric generators
- 16 x Western Electric 18,000-horsepower geared electric motors
- 4 x shafts
- Sensor Suite
- System 021 Long-range Air Search Radar
- System 025A Medium-range Air Search radar
- System 034SCR Long-range Surface Search Radar
- System 050C Integrated Information Transfer System
- Countermeasures:
- AN/SLY-2 Electronic Warfare Suite
- S2170 Sea Sentor Surface Ship Torpedo Defence System
- Mk.53 Nulka decoy launchers
- Armament
- 2 x 16-cell Mk.41 Vertical Launch Systems (with 64 quad-packed ESSM anti-aircraft missiles)
- 2 x Mk.49 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers (with 42 RIM-116 missiles, plus 63 reload missiles)
- 4 x Naval Defender twin 35mm CIWS systems (15,000 rounds each system)
- Aircraft Carried: up to 100 fixed wing aircraft and helicopters
- Peacetime Load
- 16 x CF-184D Supercat
- 16 x CF-185A Typhoon
- 12 x CF-216K Sea Viper
- 4 x CC-115NVE Viking Farsight
- 6 x CE-188G Growler
- 6 x CP-121V Super Tracker
- 2 x CC-115NV Viking
- 4 x CH-148 Cyclone
- 4 x CH-149 Comorant
- 2 x CH-151 Vulcan
- Wartime Load
- 22 x CF-184D Supercat
- 24 x CF-185A Typhoon
- 24 x CF-216K Sea Viper
- 4 x CC-115NVE Viking Farsight
- 6 x CP-121V Super Tracker
- 6 x CE-188G Growler
- 2 x CC-115NV Viking
- 4 x CH-148 Cyclone
- 4 x CH-149 Comorant
- 2 x CH-151 Vulcan
- Peacetime Load
Unit Run[edit]
- HMCS Victorious (CVN-25)
- HMCS Magnificent (CVN-26)