Cavour (Italian: portaerei Cavour) is an Italian plane carrying warship that is the most current lead and the biggest unit of the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) which was propelled in 2004. She is named after the Italian statesman and government official Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour.
Vocation (Italy)
Name: Cavour
Builder: Fincantieri
Laid down: 17 July 2001
Launched: 20 July 2004
Commissioned: 27 March 2008
In service: 10 June 2009
Homeport: Taranto
Identification: Pennant number: 550
Motto: In arduis servare mentem
Status: Active
General attributes
Type: Aircraft bearer
Displacement: 27,100 tonnes(full-load)[1][2]
Length: 244 m (801 ft)
Beam: 39 m (128 ft)
Draught: 8.7 m (29 ft)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric/Avio LM2500+ gas turbines giving 88.000 hp
6 × diesel generators (13.200 KW)
Speed: 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)+
Range: 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement: 451 team
203 set out air wing
140 C4 staff
325 marines (standard)
Armament: 4 × 8 cell A-43 Sylver launchers conveying the MBDA Aster 15 surface-to-air rocket
2 × Oto Melara 76/62 mm Super Rapido weapon
3 × Oerlikon Contraves 25/80 mm AA weapon
Airplane carried: 2015
8 x AV-8B Harrier IIs (battle plane)
12 x AgustaWestland EH-101A AEW and different helicopters
30 maximum load
Design
The ship is intended to consolidate altered wing V/STOL and helicopter air operations, order and control operations and the vehicle of military or common staff and overwhelming vehicles. The 134 m (440 ft), 2,800 m2 (30,000 sq ft) overhang space can serve as a vehicle hold fit for holding up to 24 principle fight tanks (regularly Ariete) or numerous more lighter vehicles (50 Dardo IFV, 100+ Iveco LMV), and is fitted toward the back with access inclines evaluated to 70 tons, and additionally two lifts appraised up to 30 tons for air ship. Cavour can likewise work as landing stage helicopter, obliging overwhelming transport helicopters (AgustaWestland UH-101A ASH) and 325 marines.
Cavour has a removal of 27,900 tons yet can reach more than 30,000 tons at full military capacity[citation needed], after changes done in 2008.
At first she was to be named after Luigi Einaudi, then Admiral Andrea Doria, before accepting her present title. Since Cavour has get to be operational, it is the nuova unità maggiore (NUM, or “new principle unit”) of the Marina Militare, supplementing Giuseppe Garibaldi, the other plane carrying warship in administration. The ship was initially built in two segments (bow and stern) then later joined together.
The Italian Navy will supplant its 16 Harriers with 15 (initially 22) Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II inside of the following few years.[3] The F-35B calendar is questionable right now, yet it is wanted to alter Cavour to backing the F-35B by 2016.[4] Cavour will have space for ten F-35Bs in the storage, and six more stopped on deck.
Construction
Cavour was set around Fincantieri on 17 July 2001, and she was propelled from the Riva Trigoso shipyard in Sestri Levante, on 20 July 2004. Ocean trials started in December 2006, and she was authoritatively dispatched 27 March 2008. Full operational capacity (FOC) was come to 10 June 2009.
Service history
On 19 January 2010, Cavour was dispatched to Haiti as a feature of Operation White Crane, Italy’s operation for 2010 Haiti tremor relief. This was the first mission of the plane carrying warship, where it supplemented global endeavors to give help to the casualties of the January 2010 quake.
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