Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier
The Clemenceau-class aircraft carriers are a pair of aircraft carriers, Clemenceau and Foch, which served in the French Navy from 1961 until 2000. From 2000 to 2017, one ship served with the Brazilian Navy as the São Paulo.
Clemenceau | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | DCNS |
| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Joffre class |
| Succeeded by | Charles de Gaulle |
| In service | 1961–2017 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Lost | 1 (by deliberate scuttling) |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Aircraft carrier |
| Displacement | 22,000 standard; 32,780 maximum |
| Length | 265 m (869 ft) |
| Beam | 51.2 m (168 ft) |
| Draught | 8.6 m (28 ft) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Range | 7,500 miles |
| Armament | 8 × 100mm (now 4 × dual Simbad launchers and 5 × 12.7 mm machine guns in São Paulo) |
| Aircraft carried | 40 |
| Aviation facilities | Angled flight deck for CATOBAR operations |
The Clemenceau class was France's first successful aircraft carrier design after World War II. It was the backbone of the French fleet for the duration of its forty years of service.
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