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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)



United Kingdom


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