Would a superpower Britain base a successor carrier on what HMS Ocean and the Invincible class got right?
Short answerOnly if Britain became a superpower suddenly in the 1990s; a state that had retained superpower status since 1945 would likely have inherited a very different fleet.
NotesA continuous post-1945 British superpower would probably never have built the same Invincible-class carriers and HMS Ocean that shaped the real late-century fleet. Those ships answered the constraints and missions of actual post-imperial Britain. A state trying to become a superpower abruptly in the 1990s might sensibly learn from them, but a state that had retained that status would start from a different force mix. Successor designs depend on the strategic history that produced their predecessors.