 |
You need to login
to edit this page
|
|
|
Helicopters Carriers Rotary Wing Aircraft at Sea
Modern navies deploy helicopters from small escort vessels to
enormous carriers designed exclusively to be operated with rotary
wing aircraft .
This page refers to the efforts of several navies for
deploying the helicopters at sea along the years.
France
Arromanches : (R95)
It was a British 's Colossus class fixed wing aircraft carrier, but
was used as a helicopter carrier with 20 / 25 helicopters on board
from the 1960s up to 1974 by the french navy
Jeanne d'Arc : (R97)
In service since 1964, used as training ship in peacetime,
can carry up to 14 Aerospatiale Super Frelon helicopters.
|
|
Italy
Vittorio Veneto : (C550)
Third unit of the Andrea Doria class but strongly modified,
enter service in 1970. Can carry up to 9 Agusta-Bell AB212 or
6 Agusta-Sikorsky ASH-3H Sea King.
San Giorgio Class :
Two plus one (San Giusto) lightly different,
small amphibious assault ships built in the 1980s, could carry up to
5/7 Agusta-Bell AB212
|
|
ex USSR
Moskva Class : (Moskva and Leningrad)
They carry up to 18 Kamov Ka-25 Hormone or Ka-27 Helix.
In service 1967 - 1991
|
|
USA
Boxer Class : (WWII modified escort carriers)
In 1952, the WWII escort carrier USS Sicily (CVE 118)
is the first to be transformed in an helicopter carrier for
deploy in Korea where the marines will operate from
their HRSs ( S-55 )
Iwo Jima Class : (LPH)
Wasp Class : (LHD)
|
|
|
|
|
