Originally Posted by -{SpoonmaN}-

Well I guess it's not out of the question for Japan to go Carrier, they can justify it as defensive based on it's complement, if it only carries choppers and interceptors then they can claim it's purely for defending Japanese shipping. Since they have a massive fleet of escorts, all they need is underway replenishment and they're set I suppose. Korea doesn't have to worry about such pretencions and will, in my opinion, almost certainly go for a Carrier fleet a la the current UK one. Australia is very unlikely to scrape the money together to build a proper aviation ship but the LHDs we're building now are supposedly capable of carrying a few planes. I would have rathered buying Wasps and cramming more automation onto the ships to save on crew requirements but then local industries wouldn't have gotten their pork (I swear it's their fault everything costs twice as much as it should).
My opinion anyway.