Ship type: Vertical take-off and landing fighter aircraft carrier
Date of completion: 1985
Same class ship: 1 ship
Displacement: Standard displacement of 10000 tons, full load displacement of 13850 tons
Dimensions: Captain length 180.2 meters, model width 30.4 meters, draft 8.2 meters
Power: Biaxial propulsion, 4 universal The electric/Fiat LM-2500 gas turbine has a power of 80,000 shaft horsepower, a maximum speed of 29.5 knots, and a self-sustaining force of 7,000 nautical miles at 20 knots.
Carrier-based aircraft: 10 AV-8B Sea Harriers and 1 SH-3D helicopter; or 16 SH-3D helicopters
Weapon: 1 seat 4 combined Austria Tomat SSM anti-ship missile launcher, 2 Abato ship-to-air missile launchers, 6 40mm anti-aircraft guns, 6 324mm TT torpedo tubes
Career: During the Second World War, the Italian Navy started to build two aircraft carriers, but they were not completed. In the 1970s, all parties negotiated and reached an agreement to start the construction of an aircraft carrier with a full flight deck. The contract was signed in 1977 and is expected to enter service in September 1985. However, there is a problem. According to a law enacted in 1923, the combat missions of various fixed-wing aircraft are undertaken by the Italian Air Force. In the 1980s, the Italian Air Force publicly stated that it would neither equip the Navy with vertical take-off and landing fighters nor Will provide pilots. This stalemate lasted until 1989, when the Italian Navy finally ordered the AV-8B Sea Harrier II vertical take-off and landing fighter, which was boarded in December 1994.
Giuseppe Garibaldi has a simple and neat design. For its small hull, the equipment it carries is still considerable. The front part of the hull is a full-width ski jump takeoff springboard, but its elevation angle is only half of the British Invincible class and the Spanish Prince of Asturias, about 6.5 degrees. The carrier-based aircraft combination plan it carries is more flexible. It can be a full-sea harrier vertical take-off and landing fighter or a full SH-3D helicopter, but in fact, it is generally a mixture of the two. The ship carries a large number of weapons, including a quadruple SSM Ottomat ship-to-air missile launcher, 2 ship-to-air missile launchers, 3 dual 40mm antiaircraft guns, and 6 torpedo tubes. It can also carry 250-person Two Men-class personnel landing craft to perform amphibious landing operations and humanitarian disaster relief missions.
