Pegasus can build its own fighters, a capability that makes the fictional ship more fully a carrier. Because aircraft are a carrier's primary weapon, producing them aboard would make industrial capacity part of the ship's combat endurance. A future Ark Royal able to manufacture or 3D-print its own aircraft provides the real-world thought experiment. This speculative idea turns air-group replenishment into a carrier-design question that would otherwise belong to bases and supply ships.
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Pegasus and the logistics of building replacement fighters
Pegasus's ability to manufacture fighters aboard turns a fictional detail into a question about how future carriers might sustain their air groups.