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Leadership of the Royal Navy Task Force during the Falklands War in 1982.

 

Specifications
General

Type: Aircraft Carrier
Complement: 2100
Launched: 16 February 1953
Commissioned: 25 November 1959
Powerplant
2 x Parson turbines, 76000 shp
Dimensions/Masses
Displacement: 23000 t standard, 28000 t Full Load
Length: 236.14 m | Beam: 45.10 m | Draught: 8.5 m
Performances
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
Range: 13000 km at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Armament

Guns: 10 × 40 mm Bofors
Armor: ?
Aircrafts:

  • Up to 1970:12 Sea Vixens, 7 Buccaneers, 5 Gannets and 6 Wessex
  • After 1980: up to 28 Sea Harriers

 

 

Carriers