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Giuseppe Garibaldi 2002

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Giuseppe Garibaldi	C551		Italcantieri, Monfalcone	26.3.1981	4.6.1983	30.9.1985	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	10100
Displacement full, t	13850
Length, m	162.8 pp 173.8 wl 180.2 oa
Breadth, m	23.8 wl 30.4 fd
Draught, m	6.70 mean 8.20 over sonar
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 General Electric-Fiat LM2500 gas turbines
Power, h. p.	80000
Max speed, kts	29.5
Fuel, t	gas turbine oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	7000(20)
Armament	4 x 1 Otomat SSM (4 Otomat), 2 x 8 Albatros SAM (48 Aspide), 3 x 2 - 40/70 OTO-Breda Compact Twin 40, 2 x 3 - 324 B-515 TT, 11 - 16 aircraft (AV-8B+ Harrier attackers, Sea King helicopters)
Military load	400 troops
Electronic equipment	SPN-749(v)2, SPS-702, SPS-768, SPS-774, SPS-52C, 3x SPG-74, 3x SPG-75, SPN-728(v)1 radars, DE1160 sonar, SLQ-732 Nettuno ECM suite, 2x SCLAR decoy RL, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, IPN-20 (SADOC 2) CCS
Complement	780 + 45 flag staff

Air group

Year	VSTOL attackers	Helicopters
1990	---	16 SH-3D Sea King
2005	6 AV-8B Harrier	4 SH-3D Sea King
2012	10 AV-8B+ Harrier	1 SH-3D Sea King
2017, var. 1	10 AV-8B+ Harrier	1 AW101 AEW Merlin
2017, var. 2	---	18 AW101 Merlin, AW101 AEW Merlin, NH90 NFH

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Aircraft facilities

 (fd - 5,000m², ha - 1,650m² / 9,900m³): Flight deck: 173.8x30.4m. Hangar: 110.0x15.0x6.00m. Two elevators, each (18.0x10.0m, 15t). There is 6.5°-inclined, 28.5m-long ski-jump.

Project history

The first Italian aircraft carrier, this ship was originally limited in its capabilities by a law dating from 1923 preventing the Italian Navy from operating combat aircraft from ships. When this law was changed in 1992, sixteen AV-8B+ were purchased. The design envisaged VSTOL aircraft operations, since it ultimately included a ski-jump ramp forward. The hangar can accommodate either twelve SH-3D Sea King helicopters or ten AV-8B and one Sea King. Garibaldi was ordered on 20 February 1978, and began sea trials on 3 December 1984. She is equipped as a fleet flagship and also serves as an 'interpreter' between the on-shore Italian air defence system and deployed ships (their electronic data links are not compatible with the land-based system). Like the British Invincible class she can carry troops.

Modernizations

late 1980s: - 4 x 1 Otomat Mk 1 SSM; + 4 x 2 Teseo Mk 2 SSM (8 Otomat Mk 2)

2004: - 4 x 2 Teseo Mk 2 SSM, SPN-728(v)1, SPN-749(v)2 radars, DE1160 sonar; + SPS-753 radar, DMS 2000 sonar, SLAT anti-torpedo system

Naval service

No significant events.