If you want cheap & basic, & don’t mind slow, build a BPE. You can delete the dock if you want more planes aboard. If you want a proper pocket carrier, with better performance, & don’t mind spending more, build a Cavour derivative. Navantia & Fincantieri are both willing to licence their designs, or provide technical assistance (for a reasonable fee) to anyone wanting to build something similar. Or there are other designs available, but not yet built, e.g. from Schelde.
Totally agree,
if u want a cheap, basic, not armed, civilian standard design build buy BPE. It’s big, flexible as lpd/lhd and sometimes carrier (very short air operations), Very cheap 400-500milion € and very slowly (21 knots max).
If you want a powerful, self defence armed (Empar+Aster15), built with robust military standard, good speed (29-30 knots) and powerful engines (4 gasturbine LM2500), build for longer stovl air operations and command (c4I), but very limited lpd capability buy the expensive Cavour (1,5 bilion €).
Who cares the speed for a stovl carrier? Is speed important for the launch of the aircrafts?
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