[Ronin]

Lots of good points there. Let’s take my last post and yours, design a birdfarm, sell it to the Pentagon, and make lots of money!

[mad_as_he$$]

The Navy spent over $1 billion just on design of the next generation of carrier. Newport News owns that business but they are just now coming into this century.

[Tallguy]

Maybe we should just go up to NY & dig the Intrepid out of the mud & re-commission her? Just kidding. But what you guys are discussing is essentially a WW2 carrier with or without a angled flight-deck. Essex/Intrepid types.

If navalized UAV's advance as rapidly as they might, you could see an experiment using an LHD/LHA platform like Jimmy Carter's "Sea Control Ship" program. If successful you might start to get purpose-built UAV-carriers for ASW & over-the-horizon air defense.