[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.

[gridlock]

The angled flight deck is handy for simultaneous take off/landing operations, so I would keep that. But something along the lines of the Essex class would be about the right size, IMHO.