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Charles de Gaulle and JS Izumo

Name:	Charles de Gaulle	JS Izumo
Type:	Aircraft carrier	Helicopter carrier (helicopter destroyer)
Origin:	France	Japan
Produced:	2001 (Commissioned)	2011
Unit cost:	3 billion €	1.5 billion $

Full description:	Description, operators	Description, operators

Specifications

Range:	Unlimited	-
Displacement:	42,500 t	27,000 t
Aircraft:	28–40	7 ASW and 2 SAR helicopters; 28 aircraft max
Speed:	27 kn (50 km/h)	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)

Crew:	1950	520

Displacement

Speed

Aircraft

Dimensions

Length:	261.5 m	248 m
Beam:	64.36 m	38 m
Draft:	9.43 m	7.5 m

Images

Charles de Gaulle

Author: "Charles De Gaulle (R91) underway 2009" by USN - U.S. Navy VFA-146 official website [1] photo [2]. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_De_Gaulle_(R91)_underway_2009.jpg#/media/File:Charles_De_Gaulle_(R91)_underway_2009.jpg License

JS Izumo

Author: By Yamada Taro - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39204729 License