Why a 200,000-ton warship outruns useful scale

What would a 200,000-ton modern warship be like?

It would need nuclear power and either an enormous missile battery or unusually large aircraft, because normal carrier operations hit human and logistical limits well before that displacement.

A hypothetical 200,000-ton surface combatant is envisaged as a nuclear-powered modern battleship with thousands of VLS cells. A carrier of that size would need substantially larger aircraft to justify the extra deck and hangar space. The discussion gives roughly 96 crewed aircraft as a recurring point beyond which operating efficiency starts to fall. That figure is presented as a human coordination problem whose precise cause remains uncertain. A larger hull therefore does not automatically produce a proportionate increase in usable air power.