The planning example begins with roughly twelve carrier hulls to keep four reliably available. Surging more ships can interrupt refits and refuelling schedules, creating later periods when maintenance demands arrive together. A conventional reserve-carrier proposal is offered in response: two ships would remain active and four would wait in reserve. The distinction rests on the continued attention required by an inactive nuclear plant compared with conventional machinery. These numbers describe the proposed force and its scheduling assumptions.
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Carrier surges and later maintenance gaps
A reserve-carrier proposal follows an explanation of how surging nuclear carriers can bunch later refuelling and maintenance demands.