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Clearly the spanish and italian navies are quickly catching up with the french and british and they have a much more modern fleet, including a small carrier platform. if they decide to increase spending and work up to a cvf size carrier that france and britain will have to give up their notions of being the leading naval powers of europe.
Wow things really do come 360^ given time and politics.
Maybe perhaps the four/five major powers of Europe (France,Britain,Germany,Spain and Italy) should get together and design a newage common class of CV/VSTOL carrier. This would benefit all involved as sharing in the cost,development,building and refitting and could even be utilized later down the road in training and what we would call midships cruises. Divide the costs five ways and work together in strengthening Europes navies all together. Just an off the wall thought.
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