A conventional carrier could expand US yard capacity

Should the United States build a conventionally powered turbo-electric carrier so non-nuclear yards can contribute?

A proven Anglo-French CATOBAR design might have offered a useful 75 to 80 percent solution that additional yards could build as a backstop to nuclear carriers.

The idea depends on an Anglo-French programme producing a mature conventional CATOBAR design. French participation and the need to build in French yards are cited as influences on the Queen Elizabeth hull's shape, before France chose to pursue a nuclear carrier. In the counterfactual, a conventional design meeting perhaps 75 to 80 percent of American requirements could be built by additional yards. Two or three ships could then move the carrier force closer to fifteen decks. They would serve as backstops for the nuclear carriers.