Here are some facts about aircraft carriers that you probably had no idea about

The largest aircraft carriers can carry between 5,000 and 6,000 fighter jets at their maximum load.

The Gerald R. Ford class is home to just over 4,000 personnel, while the HMS Queen Elizabeth has a space for 1,600 personnel.

Aircraft carriers are often known as floating cities due to the sheer size of each ship's complement.

They can deploy a contingent of fighters of equal size to the entire crew of other ships.

Aircraft carriers are among the fastest ships in any navy and are capable of traveling to their destination at a faster pace than any other large ship and outrunning even submarines.

U.S. supercarriers such as the Nimitz -class and Gerald R. Ford -class vessels are longer than three football pitches laid end to end and are taller than a 25 -floor building.

The USS Gerald R. Ford cost the U.S. Navy $13 billion to build and is expected to cost at least $120 billion over its lifetime.

The running cost of the USS George H. W. Bush and USS Gerald Ford is $ 340,000 a day or $2.4 million a week on keeping the ship in condition to sail.

HMS Queen Elizabeth went over budget by 2 billion , taking the overall cost to 6.2 billion ( $8 billion ).