Talk:AFOH/@comment-14850713-20160403061521

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The Fleet has commissioned the first surface carriers capable of arming and servicing Cobra and Durandal aerospace strike craft. The new Verdun-class carriers are built from excess Normandie-class battle cruiser hulls. Due to the hangar requirements of the massive fighters, the fleet designers, inspired by World War II Japanese warships (they had given the composite masts of the Normandies a "pagoda" look) decided to adopt the set-up of the carrier Akagi, but on a much bigger scale.

The Verduns are actually large support ships rather than carriers, able to embark 18 Cobra/Durandal and enough weapons (aerial mines, missiles, bombs, torpedoes, gun shells) and spare parts (it even has provisions for 4 spare fusion engines) in the 2-level hangar for 100 complete sorties (this was meant to address a key shortcoming which became evident in the Battle of Coral Sea, when Cobra/Durandals had to fly all the way back to Milne Bay or through contested airspace to Port Moresby to rearm). Up to 30 carriers are planned to join the Fleet.







OOC: Wanted to make an Akagi replica, so...