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Keeping carrier aviation under naval command changes development

Keeping carrier aircraft under naval command is the preferred institutional change, with substantial but unspecified long-term effects.

Question

Would keeping carrier aviation under naval control change the Fleet Air Arm's development?

Short answer

Keep carrier aircraft inside the Navy under one command rather than separating naval aviation institutionally.

Notes

The preferred change is to keep carrier aircraft within the Navy under a single command. That would avoid the institutional separation raised in the question. Substantial consequences are expected, but their long-term course is explicitly uncertain. No detailed alternative aircraft program is supplied.