The comparison draws on Royal Navy carrier choices in the 1920s and 1930s. British planners expected possible wars against Japan in East Asia or Italy in the Mediterranean, while carriers might also have to pursue raiders across the Indian and Atlantic oceans. A damaged carrier or aircraft operating near Singapore could face a supply and repair route through the Suez Canal, or around the Cape of Good Hope if the Mediterranean were unsafe. Those distances favoured ships and aircraft that could be repaired and maintained far from Britain. A supportable air group may deliver more combat power than individually superior machines stranded without a usable carrier or logistics chain.
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Why interwar carrier logistics favoured repairability
Interwar Royal Navy planning shows how the distances to Singapore, the Suez Canal, and the Cape of Good Hope made repairability and carrier survival part of aircraft capability.