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A successful aircraft export market does not automatically translate into sales of the British carrier hull.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Institutional politics make a technically compatible light-carrier option far less plausible than its mission fit suggests.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Aviation-fuel safety shows institutional memory being converted into extra engineering and survivability measures.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
The presence of contemporary strike-cruiser studies does not make them part of Invincible's actual design lineage.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
A modestly sized V/STOL carrier can gain efficiency through layout changes, although displacement definitions matter.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
The successful case emphasizes flexible peacetime and alliance utility rather than asking government to fund a prestige carrier.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Better performance improves the collaboration case without removing the pre-Falklands scepticism surrounding V/STOL aircraft.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Carrier categories are explained through multiples of eighteen aircraft and the missions they can sustain, not through displacement alone.
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Two-coast readiness demands a much larger force than simply owning one carrier for each ocean.
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A British return to catapults remains possible, but the forecast for the questioner's lifetime is doubtful.
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A statutory fleet count can invite creative compliance without proving that every named carrier is operationally ready.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
A four/six/eight-aircraft calculation illustrates continuous coverage, followed by an explicit four-helicopter AEW requirement.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Queen Elizabeth's automated ordnance system is a new design, not inherited Invincible-class machinery.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
American pressure to contain Soviet surface raiders, combined with Sea Harrier-launched Sea Eagle missiles, supplies the mission and readiness arithmetic for four British, two Canadian, and two Australian carriers.
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The alternate ship becomes a 30,000-ton light, 38,000-ton full-load carrier with three shafts, redundant generators, Sea Dart, Sea Wolf, and a 48-aircraft group.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
An existing Sea King-family AEW solution beats new tilt-wing or fixed-wing aircraft because it meets the threat with common training, logistics, and production.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Buying more of the Type 22 launcher offers a simpler procurement case and six missiles ready to fire.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Two squadrons of twelve could sustain a four-aircraft patrol while sharing the task of keeping strike aircraft ready on deck.
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A larger hull makes deck-edge lifts attractive, but Royal Navy confidence in centreline lifts during rough northern seas could produce a conservative mixed arrangement.
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Existing Sea King aircraft and training make a conversion easier to fund than a new Dynavert fleet.
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A fleet of eight large Invincibles could raise Sea Harrier production above 300 aircraft, sustain British development, and pull later US, Spanish, and Italian variants toward the fighter rather than ground-attack line.
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Forty to forty-eight Sea Harriers, eight AEW helicopters, and Sea Wolf self-defence could deny Argentina the surprise and access that made historical attacks so costly.
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Shorter flights from carriers reduced one source of strain compared with the repeated long sorties flown by Argentine pilots.
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An expanded AEW and fighter force could support separate patrols for the forward screen, carriers, and amphibious ships.
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A four-carrier Royal Navy is more likely to retain Harriers, build two Oceans, order three Queen Elizabeth-class replacements, and keep Australia, Canada, or India involved in the next carrier generation.
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Supporting four carriers could push the Royal Navy toward about sixteen Type 42 air-defence destroyers and eighteen Type 23 ASW frigates, with a possible combined Sea Dart and Sea Wolf escort.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
The theoretical three-and-three escort group must be funded alongside submarine protection at home.
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The Dynavert has plausible carrier roles but loses to the cheaper path of adapting aircraft already in Commonwealth service.
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Available Exocet and Harpoon systems avoided the expense of fitting Sea Eagle for shipboard use.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
The counterfactual retains cost and alliance considerations that favour established French and American missiles.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
The problem was discoverable in northern-flank exercises, yet awareness alone did not guarantee money for a technical correction.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Stronger fleet air defence changes which aircraft must be transported south and how ground support might be delivered.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Invincible's aircraft limits come from its helicopter-cruiser origins and lack of CATOBAR equipment, while the ramp improves the aircraft it was designed to use.
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A statutory service boundary is a political obstacle with workarounds, not a technical reason Italy cannot join a Harrier ecosystem.
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The cheaper evolutionary escort path adds point defence to a ship already being bought rather than opening a new destroyer program.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Internal volume is not enough for ASW suitability; the aircraft must efficiently sustain the flight profile required by its sensors.
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The carrier exposes a Canadian force-structure gap because numerous light ASW escorts do not substitute for a muscular area-air-defence destroyer.
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A developed CL-84 could provide the required space, but the procurement objection remains.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Local assembly offers industrial participation without duplicating an entire production line for a comparatively small national order.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
A purpose-built AEW aircraft loses because governments are assumed to fund only the minimum capability required by the assigned mission.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
An assumed hull life of about forty years places the original Canadian carriers beyond their expected service lives.
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French strategic autonomy outweighs the efficiencies of joining a successful British Commonwealth carrier family.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
The overlap between Australian carrier construction and early Ticonderoga development opens a route to a combined carrier and Aegis-cruiser capability.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Some later escort improvements require Falklands experience that the counterfactual cannot bring forward.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
A long production run can turn a national class into an export family resembling the postwar light-fleet-carrier program.
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Halifax offers a later route to Canadian air-defence escorts, while its timing and electrical capacity constrain what the hull could provide.
From What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live) ·
Canada could plausibly prioritize the air-defence variant while accepting a temporary capability gap.
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Early French destroyers evolved from large torpedo boats, and the Durandal and Framée designs show how little separated the two types.
From Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI ·