List of aircraft carriers by configuration explained

The list of aircraft carriers by configuration contains active aircraft carriers organized by the specific configuration of aircraft carrier designs. This list excludes seaplane carriers or helicopter carriers.

Carrier configurations

There are three main configurations of aircraft carrier in service in the worlds navies:

Catapult Assisted Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR)
Short Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery (STOBAR)
Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL)

Navies with CATOBAR carriers

Chinese Navy
- Type 003 – under construction
French Navy
- FS Charles de Gaulle
Indian navy
- INS Vishal – planned (in design phase)
United States Navy
- - - - *(equipped with EMALS)
  - *

Navies with STOBAR carriers

Chinese Navy
- Type 001
  - Liaoning
- Type 002
  - Shandong
Indian Navy
- Modified Kiev class
  - INS Vikramaditya
- Vikrant class
  - INS Vikrant – In Trials^[1]
  - IAC-2 (Planned)
Russian Navy
- Kuznetsov class
  - Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov

Navies with STOVL carriers

Italian Navy
- Cavour
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Trieste – under construction
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
- Izumo class – to be converted to operate F-35B aircraft
Royal Navy
- Queen Elizabeth class
  - HMS Queen Elizabeth
    - HMS Prince of Wales Spanish Navy
- SNS Juan Carlos I
United States Navy
- Wasp class
- America class

Notes and References

Web site: 2020-10-17. India's first indigenous aircraft carrier INS VIKRANT(IAC1) Commissioned on 2nd September 2022. 2020-10-18. Defence News India. en-GB. 2020-10-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20201018170912/https://www.defenceaviationpost.com/2020/10/indias-first-indigenous-aircraft-carrier-ins-vikrantiac1-is-out-for-trials/. dead.