Aircraft choices for a surviving CVA-01 fleet

What aircraft would probably have replaced the Buccaneer aboard CVA-01?

Most likely a British role in the F/A-18 program, though a three-carrier fleet might also have supported a domestic or Anglo-French naval aircraft.

The aircraft choice would have depended on how many CVA-01 carriers Britain actually built. A three-ship program could have supported a domestic carrier-aircraft project or a joint Anglo-French design by creating a larger guaranteed market. Entry into the American F/A-18 program is nevertheless judged the most likely route. That path might have produced a shared British-American Hornet or later Super Hornet arrangement for the Royal Navy's air groups.