[Fai Mao]

Can these ships operate VSTOL aircraft?

[Lower Deck]

Probably not. The only country making them is the U.S. with the F-35B and the deck would need to be built out to handle the heat and stress. I doubt it was.

[Spktyr]

Yes, if they can find some; not a lot of countries making VSTOL fighters or attack aircraft. That said, there's a lot of surplus Harriers running around on the world market now from Britain's short-sighted fire sale of their military gear.

On the other hand, they *can* operate some pretty nasty Russian helicopter gunships from them... and since Egypt got the amphibious assault carriers that Russia was going to put their Ka-52K scout/gunships on, Russia has sold Egypt the Ka-52Ks that Russia was going to put on the Mistrals. An additional 46 or so Ka-52 land-based variants have been ordered to go along with them.