[Rodney King]

Thanks. If you come across any info, I have always had interest in the costs/benefits of Aircraft carriers, and thus the decision by some nations to employ them. For example, is it really worthwhile for Brazil to operate a carrier? Should the UK have decomissioned the Ark Royal and gone forward only with the SVTOL carriers?

[Jeff Head]

The strategic, political, and preventive benefits are difficult to put a dollar sum to...until you fight a war, or lose some strategic resources or access because you didn't have them.

The British are going to build two large deck carriers to replace their VTOL carriers in the 20-teens.