Top 10 Largest Aircraft Carriers In The World 2019

10. Chakri Naruebet – Thailand

Power: 2 × GE LM2500 gas turbines (44,000 shp)
Range: 19,000 km
Unit cost: US$336 million (1992)
Aircraft carried: 
Displacement: 11,486 tons 
Length: 182.65 m
Speed: 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph) 
Crew: 675+

HTMS Chakri Naruebet is the flagship of the Royal Thai Navy, and Thailand’s first and only aircraft carrier, although the RTN refers to her as an “Offshore Patrol Helicopter Carrier”.

9. Cavour – Italy

Power: gas turbines (118.010 bhp)
Range: 13,000 km
Unit cost: $ 2 billions
Aircraft carried: 30+
Displacement: 30,000 MT
Length: 244 m
Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Crew: 1.202

Cavour is an Italian aircraft carrier launched in 2004. It is the flagship of the Italian Navy.

8. Sao Paulo – Brazil

Power: steam turbines producing 126,000 hp
Range: 13,900 km
Unit cost: –
Aircraft carried: 39+
Displacement: 32,800 tonnes
Length: 265 m
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Crew: 1,920

NAe Sao Paulo was a Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier in service with the Brazilian Navy. São Paulo was first commissioned in 1963 by the French Navy as Foch and was transferred in 2000 to Brazil, where she became the new flagship of the Brazilian Navy.

7. Vikramaditya – India

Power: 8 turbo-pressurised boilers (180,000 hp)
Range: 25,000 km
Unit cost: $2.35 billion
Aircraft carried: 36 +
Displacement: 45,400 tons 
Length: 283.5
Speed: +30 knots (56 km/h)
Crew: 1610

INS Vikramaditya is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier which entered into service with the Indian Navy in 2013. She has been renamed in honour of Vikramaditya, a legendary emperor of Ujjain, India.

6. Charles de Gaulle – France

Power: 2 × Areva K15 pressurised water reactors (PWR), 150 MWt each
Range: Unlimited
Unit cost: $4.03 billion
Aircraft carried: 40+ 
Displacement: 42,500 tonnes 
Length: 261.5 m
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h)
Crew: 1,350+

Charles de Gaulle is the flagship of the French Navy. The ship is the tenth French aircraft carrier, the first French nuclear-powered surface vessel, and the only nuclear-powered carrier completed outside of the United States Navy. She is named after French statesman and general Charles de Gaulle.

Top 10 Largest Aircraft Carriers In The World 2019

5. Queen Elizabeth class – United Kingdom

Power: 2 × Rolls-Royce Marine Trent MT30 36 MW (48,000 hp)
Range: 19,000 km
Unit cost: US$10.4 billion
Aircraft carried: 70+
Displacement: 65,000 tonnes
Length: 280 m 
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Crew: 1,600

The Queen Elizabeth class is a class of two aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy. The lead ship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, was named on 4 July 2014, in honour of Queen Elizabeth, a renowned World War I era super-dreadnought, which in turn was named for Elizabeth I.

4. Liaoning – China

Power: Steam turbines (200,000 hp)
Range: 7,130 km
Unit cost: US$9 billion
Aircraft carried: 40+
Displacement: 58,600 tons
Length: 304.5 m 
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Crew: 1,960

Liaoning is a Chinese Type 001 aircraft carrier. The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force, she is classified as a training ship, intended to allow the Navy to experiment, train and gain familiarity with aircraft carrier operations.

3. Kuznetsov – Russia

Power: Steam turbines, 8 turbo-pressurised boilers, 4 shafts, 200,000 hp 
Range: 15,700 km
Unit cost: $5.5 billion
Aircraft carried: 30 
Displacement: 64,600 short tons
Length: 305 m
Speed: 29 knots (33 mph; 54 km/h
Crew: 1,690

The Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier is a class of fixed-wing aircraft carriers operated by the Russian and Chinese navies. Originally designed for the Soviet Navy, the Kuznetsov-class ships use a ski-jump to launch high-performance conventional aircraft in a STOBAR configuration.

2. Nimitz class – USA

Power: 2 × Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors (260,000 shp)
Range: Unlimited
Unit cost: $1.0 billion (1975 dollars)
Aircraft carried: 90 & Helicopters
Displacement: 100,020 tonnes 
Length: 332.8 m
Speed: 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)
Crew: 3,532

The Nimitz class is a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the United States Navy. The lead ship of the class is named after World War II United States Pacific Fleet commander Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who was the U.S. Navy’s last living fleet admiral.

1. Ford class – USA

Power: Two A1B nuclear reactors
Range: Unlimited
Unit cost: US$12.998 billion
Aircraft carried: 75+
Displacement: 100,000 long tons
Length: 337 m
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Crew: 2,600 approx

Gerald R. Ford class is a class of aircraft carrier being built to replace the USS Enterprise and eventually the United States Navy’s existing Nimitz-class carriers, beginning with the delivery of USS Gerald R. Ford.

Top 10 Largest Aircraft Carriers In The World 2019