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List of aircraft carrier classes in service

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The list of aircraft carrier classes in service includes all those currently with navies or armed forces and auxiliaries in the world. Ships are grouped by type, and listed alphabetically within.{{Cite web |last=Brimelow |first=Benjamin |title=These are the 20 aircraft carriers in service today |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aircraft-carriers-list-in-service-patrolling-the-world-2018-2 |access-date=2025-06-03 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}

''Kuznetsov''-class (Project 1143.5) aircraft carrier

{{See also|Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier}}File:Russian aircraft carrier Kuznetsov.jpg

  • Builders: {{URS}} (Black Sea Shipyard in Mykolaiv, present-day Ukraine)
  • Displacement: 57,700 tons
  • Aircraft: 17 fixed-wing aircraft and 24 helicopters
  • Armament: 12 × P-700 Granit SSM; 192 × Tor SAM; 8 × CADS-1 CIWS; 8 × AK-630; 2 × RBU-12000
  • Powerplant: 8 boilers, 4 steam turbines (200,000 shp)
  • Speed: 32 knots
  • Range: 3,850 nmi at 32 knots
  • Ships in class: 3
  • Operator: {{navy|Russia}}, {{navy|China}}
  • Commissioned: 1995
  • Status: 2 in service in China, 1 more in long-term refit in Russia

''Cavour''-class aircraft carrier

{{See also|Italian aircraft carrier Cavour}}File:Cavour (550).jpg

''Chakri Naruebet''-class aircraft carrier

{{See also|HTMS Chakri Naruebet}}File:HTMS Chakri Naruebet Exercise 2001.jpg

  • Builders: {{ESP}}
  • Displacement: 11,486 tons
  • Aircraft: 6 AV-8 Harrier II aircraft and 4 S-70B Seahawk helicopter
  • Armament: 2 × hex Sadral Mistral SAM launchers, 2x12.7 mm MG
  • Powerplant: 2 diesels, 2 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 44,250 hp
  • Speed: 26 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Operator: {{navy|Thailand}}
  • Commissioned: 10 August 1997
  • Status: In service

''Charles de Gaulle''-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

{{See also|French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle}}File:Gaule96.jpg

  • Builders: {{flag|France}} (DCN at Brest, Bretagne)
  • Displacement: 40,500 tons
  • Aircraft: 30 fixed-wing aircraft (Super Étendard, Rafale M) and helicopter
  • Armament: 4 × SYLVER launchers (32 × Aster 15 SAM); 12 × Mistral SAM; 8 × 20 mm guns
  • Powerplant: 2 × pressurized water reactors
  • Speed: 27 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Operator: {{navy|France|name=Marine Nationale}}
  • Commissioned: 18 May 2001
  • Status: In service

''Gerald R. Ford''-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

{{See also|Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier}}File:Bow view of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) underway on 8 April 2017.JPG

''Giuseppe Garibaldi''-class aircraft carrier

{{See also|Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi}}File:ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi (C 551).jpg

''Vikrant''-class aircraft carrier

{{See also|INS Vikrant (2013)}}File:IAC1 Vikrant with INS Kolkata (D63) during sea trial.jpg

  • Builders: {{IND}} (Cochin Shipyard Limited)
  • Displacement: 45,000 tons
  • Aircraft: 30 × fighters and 6 × helicopters
  • Armament: Barak 8 SAM, AK-630 CIWS, 4 × Otobreda 76 mm
  • Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500+ gas turbine, 2 × Elecon COGAG gearbox
  • Speed: in excess of 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Operators: {{navy|India}}
  • Commissioned: 2 September 2022
  • Status: In service

''Vikramaditya'' (modified ''Kiev'')-class aircraft carrier

{{See also|INS Vikramaditya (R33)}}File:INS Vikramaditya (R33) with a Sea Harrier.jpg

  • Builders: {{RUS}} (Soviet "Baku" as Kiev-class aircraft carrier / {{RUS}} Sevmash in Severodvinsk)
  • Displacement: 45,400 tons
  • Aircraft: 30 × fighters and 6 × helicopters
  • Armament: Barak 8 SAM, AK-630 CIWS
  • Propulsion: 8 turbopressurized boilers, 4 shafts, 4 geared steam turbines, 180,000 hp
  • Speed: in excess of 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Operators: {{navy|India}}
  • Commissioned: 16 December 2013
  • Status: In service

''Nimitz''-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

{{See also|Nimitz-class aircraft carrier}}File:USS Nimitz 1997.jpg

''Queen Elizabeth''-class aircraft carrier

{{See also|Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier}}File:HMS_QueenElizabeth_RO8-2.jpg

  • Builders: {{GBR}} (Aircraft Carrier Alliance)
  • Displacement: 70,600 tons
  • Aircraft: up to 40 aircraft (50 full load)
  • Armament: At least 3 × Phalanx CIWS; 30-mm DS30M Mk 2 guns; Miniguns
  • Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Marine Trent MT30 36 MW (48,000 hp) gas turbine engine;4 × Wärtsilä 38 marine diesel engines (4 × 16V38 11.6 MW or 15,600 hp)
  • Speed: 26 knots
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator: {{navy|United Kingdom}}
  • Commissioned: 7 December 2017
  • Status: 2 in service

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