The fleet built around surviving CVA-01 carriers

What might the Royal Navy have looked like if CVA-01 had not been cancelled?

He envisages two or three CVA-01 carriers, a much larger Type 82 escort force, and later enlarged Daring-class successors built around carrier protection.

This alternate 1980 Royal Navy has two or three CVA-01 carriers and roughly twelve to fourteen Type 82 escorts. The carriers imply an entire fleet architecture rather than one isolated procurement decision. By the twenty-first century, larger and more general-purpose Daring-class successors replace the Type 82s around the surviving carriers. Carrier policy drives escort numbers, air-defence design, and the timing of a later carrier replacement programme.