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Active Aircraft Carriers
This book contains drawings of aircraft carriers currently in service with navies around the world. I decided to include helicopter carriers as they pack quite a punch these days. There are many types of aircraft carriers. This is a reissue of the book to provide major updates. Several ships were added. Updated the Chinese Type 076 LHD to show dual island construction, EMCAT, and dual 30-ton edge elevators. Added the French Porte-Avions de Nouvelle Génération (PA-NG), the INS Vishal Aircraft Carrier (IAC-2) and the Trieste Landing Helicopter Dock (L9890).
The class distinctions between types are clearly changing as technology advances. For example as vertical take-off and landing aircraft advances such as the Osprey and F-35B are rapidly being adopted to ships that otherwise only had helicopters before, making them more versatile and lethal. Rapid adoption of unmanned vehicles (airborne, water-borne and underwater-borne) continues to dramatically change the naval battlespace. In addition, I believe recent technological advances in laser technology promise to greatly affect the survivability of aircraft carriers in the near future.
Carriers Included:
Kalaat Beni Abbes Amphibious Transport Dock (L-474)
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)
USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)
USS Enterprise (CVN-80)
USS Doris Miller (CVN-81)
CVN-82 (Laid down 2030)
CVN-83 (planned)
CVN-84 (planned)
CVN-85 (planned)
CVN-86 (planned)
CVN-87 (planned)
USS America Amphibious Assault Ship (LHA-6)
USS Tripoli (LHA-7)
USS Wasp Amphibious Assault Ship (LHD-1)
USS Essex (LHD-2)
USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)
USS Boxer (LHD-4)
USS Bataan (LHD-5)
USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7)
USS Makin Island (LHD-8)
HMAS Adelaide Helicopter Carrier (L01)
HMAS Canberra Helicopter Carrier (L02)
HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier (R08)
HMS Prince of Wales Aircraft Carrier (R09)
NAe São Paulo Aircraft Carrier (A12)
NAM Atlantico Helicopter Carrier (A140)
Liaoning Aircraft Cruiser (CV-16)
Shandong Aircraft Cruiser (CV-17)
Fujian Aircraft Carrier (CV-18)
Fujian Class Aircraft Carrier (CV-19)
Zheng He Aircraft Carrier (CVN-20)
Type 004 Class (CVN-21) (Planned)
Hainan Landing Helicopter Assault (31)
Guangxi Landing Helicopter Assault (32)
Anhui Landing Helicopter Assault (33)
Type 076 Landing Helicopter Assault
ENS Gamal Abdel Nasser Landing Helicopter Assault (L1010)
ENS Anwar El Sadat Helicopter Carrier (L1020)
Charles de Gaulle Aircraft Carrier (R91)
Mistral Landing Helicopter Carrier (L9013)
Tonnerre Amphibious Helicopter Carrier (L9014)
Dixmude Amphibious Helicopter Carrier (L9015)
INS Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier (R33)
INS Vikrant Aircraft Carrier (R11)
INS Vishal (IAC-2)
Portaerei Cavour Aircraft Carrier (550)
Trieste Landing Helicopter Dock (L9890)
Giuseppe Garibaldi Anti-Submarine Warfare Carrier (551)
San Giorgio Amphibious Transport Dock (L 9892)
San Marco Amphibious Transport Dock (L 9893)
San Giusto Amphibious Transport Dock (L 9894)
JS Izumo Helicopter Carrying Destroyer (DDH-183)
JS Kaga Helicopter Destroyer (DDH-184)
JS Hyūga Helicopter Destroyer (DDH 181)
JS Ise Helicopter Destroyer (DDH-182)
JMSDF Ōsumi Kure Tank Landing Ship (LST-4001)
JMSDF Shimokita Tank Landing Ship (LST 4002)
JMSDF Kunisaki Tank Landing Ship (LST 4003)
QENS Al Fulk (L141) Launched January 2023
Admiral Kuznetsov Aircraft Cruiser
Ivan Rogov Amphibious Assault Ship
Mitrofan Moskalenko Amphibious Assault Ship
ROKS Dokdo Amphibious Assault Ship (LPH-6111)
ROKS Marado Amphibious Assault Ship (LPH-6112)
Juan Carlos I Amphibious Assault Ship (L61)
HTMS Chakri Naruebet Light Aircraft Carrier (911)
TCG Anadolu Landing Helicopter Dock (L-400)
TCG Trakya
