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Gerald R Ford-class and Charles de Gaulle

Name:	Gerald R Ford-class	Charles de Gaulle
Type:	Aircraft carrier	Aircraft carrier
Origin:	USA	France
Produced:	2008 (Ordering)	2001 (Commissioned)
Unit cost:	10.44 Billion $	3 billion €

Full description:	Description, operators	Description, operators

Specifications

Range:	Unlimited	Unlimited
Displacement:	100,000 t	42,500 t
Aircraft:	75	28–40
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)	27 kn (50 km/h)

Crew:	4297	1950

Displacement

Speed

Aircraft

Dimensions

Length:	337 m	261.5 m
Beam:	78 m	64.36 m
Draft:	12 m	9.43 m

Images

Gerald R Ford-class

Author: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Aidan P. Campbell. Licensed under PublicDomain http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/131117-N-DO831-080.JPG License

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