![]() Giuseppe Garibaldi in 2004
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Name | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
Namesake | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
Builder | Fincantieri Monfalcone (Gorizia) |
Cost | Lire 428 billion (1981) (equivalent to €903.63 million in 2019) |
Laid down | 26 March 1981[1] |
Launched | 11 June 1983 |
Commissioned | 30 September 1985 |
Homeport | Taranto |
Identification | Pennant number: 551 |
Motto | Obbedisco |
Status | In active service |
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Type | ASW aircraft cruiser/aircraft carrier |
Displacement | |
Length | 180.2 m (591 ft) |
Beam | 33.4 m (110 ft) |
Draught | 8.2 m (27 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)+ |
Range | 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement |
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Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried |
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Notes | flight deck is length 174.0 m (570.9 ft) and 30.0 m (98.4 ft) wide |
Giuseppe Garibaldi is an Italian aircraft carrier, the first through-deck aviation ship ever built for the Italian Navy, and the first Italian ship built to operate fixed-wing aircraft. Although she is widely recognised as a carrier first and foremost, she is officially designated as an aircraft-carrying cruiser.[3][4][5] She is equipped with short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft and helicopters. Giuseppe Garibaldi was involved in combat air operations off Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Libya.