I don't know. I am not an engineer or anything of the like (brogrammer, but not this kind of engineer), but what keeps coming to mind is draft and displacement (likely shallower, but ACs are not close-to-shore vessels). I feel like with less of both, and a lower mass, that a smaller carrier would not have as much…

Thanks for the insight, I was under the impression that they were more versatile than that. I guess that was because I thought the support equipment aboard the aircraft accounted for more space/cost.

Are they really that bad?

This is brilliant, IMHO. All benefits go to Smaller designs.

That.. uh... why do... ugh...

i get that, but i still miss the point. they are creating a situation in terrorists favor. hijack plane, get it shot down. no stadium, but people dead. its the equiv of a cop assisted suicide. youd be better off to spend the resources to keep them off the planes in the first place. i hear you can tell a lot about a…