Yorktown
Tier VIII · Aircraft Carrier · U.S.A.
Not rated · Balanced carrier
Balanced carrier, suited to air superiority. It is weak against destroyers. Strike aircraft fly at 172 kn and cross flak zones quickly. Key skills: Crawling Smoke Generator ×2 (5 s deploy, 18 s linger). Its smoke lingers briefly, good only for breaking vision for a moment. Data is incomplete, so only some aspects were rated and no overall grade is given.
Key stats
- HP: 38,114
- Top speed: 32.39 kn
- Surface detectability: 9.48 km
- Main battery: 127 mm 8X1 · reload 6 s · range 7.86 km
The Yorktown-class ships entered service between 1937 and 1941 as the first mass-produced aircraft carriers of special construction in the U.S. Navy. These 20,000-ton aircraft carriers were designed with the limitations of international naval armament agreements in mind, but nevertheless, skillfully crafted by American designers to be swift, spacious, and well-equipped. During the initial year of the war in the Pacific, ships of the Yorktown class, along with the Lexington-class carriers, constituted the primary strike force of the U.S. Navy.