It wouldnt be a maint hog with a turbo prop in the place of a radial. And with precision munitions,, imagine the loiter time when it carried fuel a super tucano cant. And not to lay it on too thick,, but 20 years from now, we might be somewhere that support from a carrier would be nice.
The Super Tucano is to be built in Florida. Or that’s what Embraer says.
About carrier capability, I don’t think that’s prerequisite since the LAS programme is mainly about the USAF training foreign air forces like Afghanistan.