If lets say the Anti-Shipping missiles are armed with nuclear warheads, and they come close to a carrier, if they hit obviously the carrier is done, but if they are destroyed by something like a Phalanx, wouldn’t they still basically destroy the carrier since the missile would be destroyed and explode so close to the Carrier?

Yes, thats why I think the Osprey should only be bought in smaller numbers for the Marines and Special Forces, if you plan to use SVTOL aircraft for lifting heavy stuff and other stuff other than normal soldiers, then thats definitely not going to be very effective. I doubt that VTOL C-130 is going to be able to lift much in VTOL mode.

Good one, this one should be tricky because when thinking of maintenance, commonality and other crap.

-For strike purposes, I will want the F-111, it sure is a maintenance nightmare, but it has long range, fast and large payload.
-Get the F-14 with latest AIM-7 versions for that time, Phoenix and such. Also wire it for all kinds of other weaponry as the F-111. I could get the Su-24 but it will not be available for some time and the weapons commonality between F-111 and Su-24 won’t be there.
-For AWACS, E-2C Hawkeye.
-So here I got a real heavy interceptor and light bomber. The next thing I need is a light fighter IN numbers. I will want an F-5E/F in LARGE numbers as a multirole light fighter, give it a good Israeli or American radar and AIM-7/AIM-9, and all kinds of air to surface ordinance it can fit. I would also use the twin seater F-5F as a twin seat advanced jet trainer for my AF. Order a lot of Su-25A/UBs. Alot of Su-25s with all kinds of goodies and do a local program with Israelis to wire it with some American weapons like Maverick and AIM-9 to have that weapons commonality.
Use F-5E/Fs as multirole fighters and also as jet trainers for all kinds of missions, and also use the Su-25A/UBs for CAS and they can also be used for twin seat jet training for other aircraft.
-Order a small number of Tu-22M’s with Kh-22 and all kinds of cruise missiles on it, this will give me unsurpasses Anti-Ship Capability against anyone as well as long range striking capabilities.
-For Basic training, give me some Tucanos or PC-9s armed with all kinds of goodies.
-Just to also keep the Soviets happy, give me the Il-76 heavy transport and Il-78 tankers.
-A lot of Mi-8s for transports
-Mi-26s for heavy transport
-Ka-27s for ASW, could order it with the same engine variant as the one of Mi-8 for commonality
-C-130 for medium transport, KC-130 for tankage as a secondary tanker also for helicopters and etc, PC-130 for patrol and ASW and Maritime Patrol.

So basically, F-111, F-14A, E-2C, F-5E/F, Su-25A/UB, Tu-22Ms, Il-76, Il-78, Mi-8, Mi-26, Ka-27, C-130, KC-130, PC-130, Tucanos/PC-9s.

As for Russian AshMs, what about low flying supersonic Moskit, or the subsonic Kh-35, or the Alfa which flies flow subsonically then last 20kms it speeds up to m2-3+.

AFAIR their radars and navigation systems did not work, this was discovered when they went up into the air. So there was NO possibly way for the Mig-29s to fire any of their BVRAAMs except the R-73s, but the Eagles sniped them beyond R-73’s range. If their radars worked, and since they flew, they would’ve probably detected the Eagles before they would detect them and it would give them a chance of firing R-27s, but this was not possible.

The Marines are not interested in the Apache, they got the Cobra. That is perhaps why.