They seem to forget that when Argentina took the Falklands, the Royal Navy was forced to use cargo container ships as aircraft carriers for their Harrier jets.
“They seem to forget that when Argentina took the Falklands, the Royal Navy was forced to use cargo container ships as aircraft carriers for their Harrier jets.”
one of the concepts of new naval design is building a base ship and being able to configure it for various missions by adding modules, tio include crew quarter modules. take a supertanker, seriously armor up the superstructure (most tanker war hits were there because it presents the largest cross-section), and stock it with cruise missles, asw modules w/ helos, and air defense. these things would run over a mine and not feel it. there should be enough anchored off singapore that could be bought cheap.
I don't believe that was the case. The Atlantic Conveyor carried some Harriers to the Falklands but was not used an operational platform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Conveyor
Lots of cargo ship carried stuff to the S Atlantic and were used for helicopter operations though -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_naval_forces_in_the_Falklands_War
It's all a moot point now since the UK has scrapped it's Harriers and has even laid off most of the Harrier pilots.
‘Fraid not.