TOP 5 most expensive Aircraft Carriers in the World

Shootinfo.com Info 09.09.2021

1.Name: USS Gerald R. Ford
Country: US
Entered service: 2017

Length: 337m
Beam: 78m
Height: 76m
Crew: 2500-2700 crew members, about 2480 air group members and about 70 staff

Armament
Artillery: 4 x Plhalanx CIWS

Missiles: 2 x ESSM launchers, 2 x RAM launchers

Aviation group: 85 x fixed-wing, VSTOL aircraft, helicopters, UAVs

2.Name: Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov
Country: Soviet Union
Entered service: 1991
Length: 306.45m
Beam: 67m
Height: 64.49m
Crew: 1980 people, including -520 officers, 322 midshipmen, 1138 sailors

Armament
Artillery: 6 × 6 AK-630 (48,000 shells)

Missiles: 12 x VLS for SS-N-19 ‘Shipwreck’ SSMs, 24 x SA-N-9 ‘Gauntlet’ eight-round vertical SAM launchers with 192 missiles, 8 x combined gun/missile systems with eight twin 30 mm Gatling guns and SA-N-11 ‘Grison’ missiles.

Aviation group: 50 airplanes and helicopters

3.Name: Nimitz class
Country: US
Entered service: 1986
Length: 317m
Beam: 43m
Height: 73.2m
Crew: 6012 (including airwing)

Armament
Artillery: 3 or 4 × 20 mm Mk 15 or ASMD

Missiles: 16–24 × RIM-7 Sea Sparrow or NATO Sea Sparrow missiles, 3 or 4 × Phalanx CIWS or RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles

Aviation group: 85–90 airplanes and helicopters

4.Name: Shandong
Country: China
Entered service: 2019
Length: 315m
Beam: 75m
Height: –
Crew: 2000 people, including -500 aircrew, 126 staff

Armament
Artillery: 3 x Type 1130 30 mm CIWS

Missiles: 3 x HHQ-10 SAM launchers

Aviation group: 50+ total aircraft including: 36 Shenyang J-15, 8 Changhe Z-18, 4 Harbin Z-9

5.Name: Queen Elizabeth class
Country: United Kingdom
Entered service: 2017
Length: 284m
Beam: 73m
Height: 56m
Crew: 1 600 people (with aircrew)