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This mother-ship should be through deck with the island offset. An island right of the flight deck was tried for full size carriers (WW2 Japan) and it doesn't work. Putting another flight deck the other side of the island will just make things worse.
Being a mother-ship for UAVs is a wildly different mission from being a mother-ship for patrol boats and USuVs. The former needs to loiter a good distance over the horizon while the latter needs to be available for littoral support of it's charges.
I think UAVs should be left to CVF and an mother-ship for autonomous/patrol boats and ASW/patrol helicopters be developed instead (to replace the Dukes?). Something like the Japanese Hyūga-class destroyers with davits under the flight deck.
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