List of aircraft carriers by configuration
The list of aircraft carriers by configuration contains active aircraft carriers organized by the specific configuration of aircraft carrier designs. This list excludes seaplane carriers or helicopter carriers.
Carrier configurations
There are three main configurations of aircraft carrier in service in the worlds navies:
- Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR)
- Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (STOBAR)
- Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL)
Navies with CATOBAR carriers
- Chinese Navy
- Type 003 – under construction
- French Navy
- Indian navy
- INS Vishal - Planned ( in Design Phase)
- United States Navy
- Nimitz class
- 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)
- Gerald R. Ford class *(equipped with EMALS)
- Nimitz class
Navies with STOBAR carriers
- Chinese Navy
- Indian Navy
- Modified Kiev class
- Vikrant class
- INS Vikrant – In Trials[1]
- Russian Navy
- Kuznetsov class
Navies with STOVL carriers
- Italian Navy
- Cavour
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Trieste – under construction
- Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
- Izumo class – to be converted to operate F-35B aircraft
- Royal Navy
- Spanish Navy
- United States Navy
See also
References
- "India's first indigenous aircraft carrier INS VIKRANT(IAC1) is out for trials". Defence News India. 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
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