Class aircraft carrier Garibaldi

The aircraft carrier Garibaldi is the main ship in the Italian fleet . And entered service in 1985. It is classified as an aircraft carrier , anti-submarine , capable of carrying 18 helicopters , or a squadron of fighter aircraft with vertical take-off VSTOL. Carrier can be carried out tasks of fighting submarines, and command and control work for workgroups air / naval joint , as well as acts of surveillance, escort convoys , and the transfer of the special forces and of the supply of the fleet.


Equipped with missile - bearing surface / surface long-range type Otomat , Qazvan in front and Qazvan in the rear. They are also equipped with the Albatros system for anti-aircraft missiles , which provides short - term central defense for carrier ; , which consists of eight launchers cells, and uses the rocket Aspid , The positive half guidance , and a range of 14 km .


Carrying 48 carrier rockets of this kind. As well as three armed bearing double guns , caliber 40 / 70 mm of the kind OTO Breda , the rate of fire 300 rounds / min , and a range of 4 km .

  The length of the flight deck of the carrier 174 m , and 30.5 m wide . And deviate last 15 m of the length of the surface to the top of the , mi angle 4 degrees; to help take-off aircraft .

  Carrier can accommodate 18 aircraft of the type Sea King, or Sikorsky SH - 3D , or can accommodate 16 aircraft of the type AV-8B, or a mixture of helicopters and vertical take-off aircraft .

  Carrier used four engines of the type LM2500 , the capacity of each 80 thousand hp .

1. Country of Origin: Italy .
2. Use: an aircraft carrier. Used in the task of fighting submarines, and command and control groups fighting sea / air , escort convoys , and special forces.

3. Countries used : Italy .

General and technical specifications :

1. Dimensions
Overall length : 180.2 m .
Cm above the water line : 162.8 m .
Along the surface of quitting : 174 m .
Width : 30.5 m .
Showing off surface : 30.5 m .
Draught : 6.7 m .

2. Weights: Full Load : 13.800 tons.

3. Performance
Maximum speed: 53 km / h .
Economic speed : 36 km / h .
Scope of work : 12,600 km , at the speed of 36 km / h .

4. The driving force
Engine : LM 2500.
Issue Number: 4 .
Fuel : Gasoline .
Engine capacity : 80 thousand hp per engine .
Number of axles: 2.

6. Sensors
Radar command to fire missile system : AESN NA30.
Radar leadership cannon fire : NA 21.
Long - range search radar : MM/SPS-768.
Long-range surveillance radar : AN/SPS-52C.
Allocation of radar targets MM/SPS- 702.
Navigation radar : MM/SPN-749.
Radar in air traffic control : MM/SPN-728.
Active sonar system : DE 1160 LF.

7. Electronic warfare
Electronic Disability System : SLQ-732.
Dissemination System foil and heat flares : SCLAR.

8. Aircraft
Helicopter Sea King: 18.
Helicopters Sikorski SH 3D: 18.
Vertical take-off aircraft Harrier II AV-8B: 16.

9. Crew
Site bearing: 550
Air crew : 230 .