The closing exercise imagines a European response commissioned after the Falklands War and paired with ships such as the Invincible class. The prompt asks whether such a cruiser would use nuclear or gas-turbine propulsion, how large it would be, and which weapons and sensors it would carry. An American counterpart seems less likely within the exercise because the United States already invested in carriers as its principal status units. Britain, France, and Italy are more revealing candidates because each had the technical base to consider a large prestige cruiser while operating fewer or smaller aviation ships. The prompt receives no answer and is therefore not presented as Q&A.
Notable Point · 47:01-50:20
Designing a Western counterpart to Kirov
The closing design exercise asks what British, French, or Italian status cruisers of the early 1980s might have looked like beside their carriers.