In the final post of my aircraft carriers through time series

The Republic of Emmeria the nation that fought in a conflict they likely weren’t expecting to be in but still won but like Yuketobania and other nations haven’t been operating carriers as long as North Point or Osea so let’s get started

we begin in the 1940s where I really have to suspect there must have been some kind of global conflict as the Emmerian Navy had a large number of surface ships and submarines which makes me wonder if Emmeria had global superpower ambitions at the time but somehow got crushed.

But I’m only focusing on the aircraft carriers which at this time were five classes made up of Aquila class and Sparviero class aircraft carriers which like most of the earliest aircraft carriers were conversions of other ships such as in Emmeria’s case two ocean liners but Emmeria also had Colossus class and Majestic class light aircraft carriers and Ruler class escort aircraft carriers

As we come to the 1950s the fleet had been reduced to light aircraft carriers the Colossus class and Majestic class light aircraft carriers although when the sixties came by they only had the Colossus class and the Majestic class light aircraft carriers had been decommissioned leaving the Majestic class light aircraft carrier which was retired in 1970 then for the next 15 years Emmeria had no aircraft carriers until 1985 when the Emmerian made Giuseppe Garibaldi class light aircraft carrier was commissioned which was the only carrier in the Emmerian fleet throughout the 1990s until 2004 when the fleet rose to 2 carriers with a single Cavour class light aircraft carrier coming into service.

At some point before the Emmerian-Estovakian War of 2015-2016 Emmeria acquired a Nimitz class aircraft carrier bringing their fleet to three carrier however its up for debate if they had it built for them by their arms supplier Macmillan Heavy Industries or they bought one from Osea in the years before the Emmerian-Estovakian War and assuming all thee class of carrier ships survived the war this would be the fleet they have currently but the Giuseppe Garibaldi class light aircraft carrier scheduled to be replaced in 2022 by a single Trieste class helicopter carrier which will reduce the fleet to two class of carriers

so I hope you all enjoyed this series which I’m a bit sad to see end as Sapin only has three carriers and the Nordlands only a single class of aircraft carrier which sadly ain’t enough to justify a carriers through time post but Aurelia might get one as they’ve only operated four classes of aircraft carriers so I’ll think on it if to do one on Aurelia so watch this space

so after doing the superpowers and North Point which for some reason is inappropriate on the sub-reddit for some reason of which I have no clue so I thought I’d move to Belka the country who fought a war 25 years ago and become an overused meme

I had to rely on scars of Ulysses for carrier information of the 1990s

We start in the 1910s with Belka’s first aircraft carrier the I-class aircraft carrier which was a converted emmerian passenger ship which was scrapped in the 20s.

We come to the 1940s where Belka rapidly grew its navy carrier force with carrier ships made of graf zeppelin class aircraft carrier, passenger ships converted into a jade class aircraft carrier , admiral hipper class cruiser into weser class aircraft carrier, a belkan ocean liner converted into an I-class aircraft carrier and an incomplete erusean cruiser converted into a II-class aircraft carrier.

I shouldn’t be surprised but i suspect Belka bought u-boat attack submarines over surface ships

I wonder if Belka lost this possible 1940s conflict as Osea had more carriers than them but moving on to the 1950s Belka replaced their obsolete carriers with Njord class aircraft carrier which following how carriers are named irl with the first being a name of a class so the Njord is the lead ship of the Njord class aircraft carriers which served until 1995 when it was sunk during the battle of Futuro Canal but where do I see the Belkan carrier fleet going in the future

honestly I have no clue as Belka likely has been under something like the Treaty of Versailles that heavily limits the belkan military for the past 25 years

anyway that’s all for Belka gotta say I’m disappointed for a nation who deployed nukes and the first use of ICBMs I was expecting much more from them

So I’ve done the global superpowers but I figured maybe let’s focus on a different nation like North Point who may have been a global superpower in the past but rising powers and time diminished North Point’s greatness to what it is today.

I am of course using my nation’s history here as it had the largest empire the world will ever see starting in either the 1490s or 1600s and at its peak in 1922 had 458 million people under its rule and covered a quarter of the earth’s land but enough about that let’s move on to the ships as some of these might surprise you as North Point has been operating carriers for over a century so let’s begin

we’ll start at the beginning with the 1910s where North Point had Argus class aircraft carrier itself a converted ocean passenger liner although converted form other ships was common as Osea’s first carrier fleet was a converted Proteus class collier ships and now we head to the roaring 20s.

In the 20s North Point grew its carrier fleet to two carrier class ships with its existing 1 Argus class aircraft carrier and added Courageous class aircraft carriers which had been battlecruisers although if I do Erusea at some point I think North Point was the top dog in Usean back in the day.

Anyway let’s move on to the 30s where North Point added another carrier bring their total to four with their Argus class aircraft carrier, Courageous class aircraft carrier and Eagle class aircraft carrier but the largest fleet increase is still to come like with Osea around this time.

We move to the 1940s which I seriously wonder if there wasn’t some kind of global strangereal world war as the North carrier fleet jumped from 4 to 10 with the already built Argus class aircraft carrier, Courageous class aircraft carrier and Eagle class and Implacable class aircraft carriers but now with Hermes class, Ark Royal class, Unicorn class, Illustrious class aircraft carriers and Colossus-class and Majestic class light aircraft carriers.

As we move into the 1950s

North Point’s fleet had been reduced as carriers had either been sunk or scrapped but the fleet was made up of surviving ships such as the Unicorn class, Illustrious class, Implacable class aircraft carrier and Malta class aircraft carriers but before I come to the light carrier I best explain what the Malta class were.

The Malta class was a proposed large aircraft carrier design during WW2 that were equal to the USA’s midway class however changing priorities, poor timing and the war leaving my country all but bankrupt after the war caused the cancellation of the ships but in Strangereal however I could see North Point building them in the 1940s then upgrading them like Osea with its midway class ships.

The light aircraft carrier fleet was made up of Colossus-class light aircraft carriers as two had been sold on with one going to Erusea and the Nordlands with another being loaned to Emmeria who returned it to North Point who sold it to the Aurelian Navy who used it until it was scrapped in 1999. The remaining light carriers were Majestic class and Centaur class light aircraft carrier.

As we reach what was the end of my nation’s empire years of the swinging sixties, the carrier force had shrunk to the Unicorn class, Illustrious class, Implacable class aircraft carriers along with 5 Colossus-class and Majestic class light aircraft carriers had been retired and replaced by newer more advanced ships.

North Point’s fleet in the 1960s consisted of Malta class and Audacious class aircraft carriers along with Colossus-class, Majestic class and Centaur class light aircraft carriers but the winds of change had more to come.

The 70s came and North Point had retired its last Colossus-class and Majestic class light carriers with that being sold to Strangereal’s India and Centaur which brought their fleet down that at the time was made up of Malta class and Audacious class aircraft carriers and Centaur class light aircraft carriers but the newest additions were the Queen Victoria class aircraft carrier.

The Queen Victoria class is my fanon name for the cancelled CVA-01 Aircraft carrier project but I have a post explaining in a bit more detail about this ship which I’ll link to below

CVA-01 aircraft carrier

As the 1980s rolled around the North Point carrier fleet continued shrinking with the Audacious class aircraft carriers and more than half of the Centaur class light aircraft carriers being withdrawn, all Audacious class aircraft carriers and Centaur class light aircraft carriers withdrawn being scrapped with one being sold to whatever Strangereal’s version of India is.

The fleet at this time were the Malta class and Queen Victoria class aircraft carriers with the light aircraft carrier fleet had Centaur class and Invincible class light aircraft carriers.

Now we come to the 1990s where North Point may have likely being involved in the Usean Rebellion but at this point the North Point fleet shrank to few carriers which I’ve already mentioned but I have to for each decade. They were Malta class aircraft carrier, Queen Victoria class aircraft carrier and Invincible class light aircraft carrier.

We come to the present century after Ulysses where North Point’s carrier fleet had stayed with the Malta class aircraft carrier and Queen Victoria class aircraft carrier and Invincible class light aircraft carrier however as you can guess around this period there was the 1st Continental war but more how on that affected the fleet shortly

but before I do, I bet you’ve got a question what happened to the Malta class aircraft carriers and both remaining centaur class light aircraft carriers well as North Point was seized during the Usean Rebellion you could say these ships were either sunk during the fighting to capture North Point or seized by the rebels and sunk by the Usean Allied forces.

We come to a decade just gone and North Point navy carrier force now reduces once again down to Queen Victoria class aircraft carrier and Invincible class light aircraft carriers.

Remember how I said this a moment ago ‘this period there was the 1st Continental war’ I think the Malta class aircraft carriers and one of the Invincible class light aircraft carrier were sunk by the Eruseans during the war.

Now we come to the Present where the fleet has gone down as the Invincible class ships have gone and been replaced by newer ships so the North Point Royal Navy carrier fleet is built from Queen Victoria class and Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.

So where do I see North Point’s carrier fleet looking like in the future well as Queen Victoria class come to the end of their lives they’ll likely be replaced by the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.

So that was North Point’s carriers and maybe I’ll do the Eruseans or Emmerians