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I would cut the numbers to 32 but purchase more capable LCS’s.

You may yet see a variant of the United States Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter (NSC) ….

No, Novator has nothing whatsoever to to do with Iskandar-K cruise missile.

Well, enlighten us as to the cruise missile then: you know this how?

I understand that the two-seat Skyhawk was unable to operate from a colossus/majestic class aircraft carrier, so two part question: did Brazil purchase any two-seat Skyhawks and if so are they able to operate from São Paulo?

1998: authority to operate carrier based fixed wing aircraft for the Navy was granted by Presidential decree No. 2538.
1999: acquisition of 20 A-4KU Skyhawks and three TA-4KU trainer aircraft from the Kuwait Air Force
2000: The first AF-1 (A-4KU) flight in Brazil, first touch-and-go on the Brazilian Navy carrier Minas Gerais
2001: The first arrested landing and catapult launch from Minas Gerais of an A-4

Minas Gerais remained in service until 2001, when she was replaced by NAe São Paulo. The São Paulo was purchased while still operational, an unusual process for such a large ship. She was received by the Brazilian Navy and was incorporated into the Brazilian Navy on 15 November 2000. Since 2001, by Brazilian invitation, pilot qualification tests of the Argentine Navy’s Dassault-Breguet Super Étendards and S-2T Turbo Trackers take place on the Brazilian Navy carrier São Paulo, as Argentina now lacks a carrier of their own. 12 singleseat and 3 twoseat Skyhawks to be modernized and kept in service through 2025.

After commissioning and on return voyage, the most visible item missing is the ‘duplicate’ white dome that used to be there at the stern. Its missing now and nothing underneath, so maybe it was probably a dummy stuff?

You mean that small dome, at the starboard stern corner? Doubt that was a dummy (why a dummy?)
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Read also
http://trishul-trident.blogspot.nl/2011/11/more-naval-updates.html

The Izumo is a destroyer capable of carrying helicopters or is simply as a helicopter carrier?.

Despite appearances, Japan insists Izumo is not an aircraft carrier

The Invincible class has its origins in a sketch design for a 6,000 ton, guided-missile armed, helicopter carrying escort cruiser intended as a complement to the much larger CVA-01-class fleet aircraft carrier. In February 1963, the Hawker P.1127 VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft had landed and taken-off from the carrier Ark Royal and the subsequent Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel had undergone trials from the “Commando carrier” (an aircraft carrier operating helicopters) HMS Bulwark. It was therefore perfectly possible that the new “cruisers” could be used to operate VTOL aircraft. The new ships were called “through-deck cruisers” and not “aircraft carrier”. Economic problems in the UK in the early 1970s delayed progress on the new ships, but the design continued to evolve. The order for the first ship was given to Vickers (Shipbuilding) on 17 April 1973. By now, the design was for a 19,000 ton “CAH” (helicopter carrying heavy cruiser, styled after the US Navy hull classification symbols) with up to fourteen aircraft and a Sea Dart missile launcher on the bows. The class also had, since 1976, a secondary role as an helicopter carrier, or LPH. The “aircraft carrier” name did not officially appear in association with the ships until 1980….

First ordered 17 April 1973
First commissioned 11 July 1980

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible-class_aircraft_carrier

“Through-deck cruiser: the new capital ship”, Michael A Cairl, US Naval Institute Proceedings, December 1978
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8002.0

USSR actually built aircraft carrying heavy cruisers (Kievs, Kuznetsov)

The “Enforcer” family is being offered in three different beams and different displacements ranging from 8,000 to 22,000 tons

http://www.epicos.com/WARoot/News/AmphibiousAssaultPowerProjection.pdf

Japan and India to collaborate on developing the Shin Meiwa US-2 amphibian..wonder what joint development means since its a developed product already..

DefenseNews article

It is a search and rescure plane, based on an MPA. Maybe India is seeking to get it back into an MPA version. Or maybe they are just going to modernize (glass cockpit, engines etc).