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Joffre's proposed air group and its logistics burden

A carrier-air-group answer warns against combining every aircraft proposal into one simultaneous operational fit.

Question

Would the Joffre-class carriers have operated the full proposed mix of Wildcats, Dauntlesses, Vindicators, Buccaneers, and Breguet 810s?

Short answer

Those types appeared across different planning periods; operating all of them together would impose an implausible logistical burden on a carrier of Joffre's size.

Notes

The list represents alternatives and changing plans rather than a single tidy air group. Multiple overlapping dive-bomber types plus separate scout, fighter, and torpedo aircraft would multiply spares, maintenance skills, weapons handling, and deck-management problems. The watch point is useful for reading design lists as snapshots in time rather than as one final embarked inventory.