[Winniesboy]

Set up a front to buy the hulk for some seemingly inocuous purpose, haul it to the Dalian shipyards, and then turn it back into an operational carrier

To do that they'd also have to build a VTOL aircraft which (in the form of the Harier) was the only plane capable of operating from an Invincible-class carrier (no catapults!)

[Fred Hayek]

Maybe the return of the Yak-41 Freesytle?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

VARYAG TRANSFORMATION INTO AN OPERATIONAL PLAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER