Model Review: Hawker-Siddeley HS.1197 Buccaneer

The Hawker-Siddeley HS.1197 Buccaneer or as it would’ve likely been known the Buccaneer S.3.

HS.1197 Buccaneer

It was to be a deep modernisation of the Buccaneer S.2 with the ageing duralumin and steel airframe having metal replaced with newer materials including use of carbon composite and titanium material with the main landing gear going from a single wheel configuration to the double wheel main landing gear of the Jaguar whilst its wing pylons were to get improved, the HS.1197 would gain new armament including some new two 30mm ADEN cannons.

But there would have to be weight savings to do all this.

The biggest changes were the replacement of the 11,000ibf Rolls Royce RB.168-1A Spey with newer 11,560ibf Rolls-Royce RB.168-78 Spey Turbofans.

The Avoinics were to get a major upgrade replaced the outdated avionics with newer systems such as a Litton Inertial Navigation System with a Litton Central Digital Computer with a High-Definition Dual-Band Radar with Search, Ground-Mapping and Ground-Attack Modes which used an Optically-match topography map and radar with a Television Sight Display.

In the end I can see why it wasn’t done as to blunt it’s only delaying the inevitable retirement of the Buccaneer

Honestly the model of this aircraft looks very good and a look at what could’ve been the last pure-British Strike Aircraft.

The model’s details of the weapons are quite well done as is the air intake for the Rolls-Royce Spey engines.

In fact I’d say its a very good representation of what the Buccaneer S.3 would have looked like so credit to the model maker whose name i cannot remember sorry

Finally I’d like to wish everyone a happy Easter

Carriers in the history of Aurelia

so Emmeria wasn’t last as I decided to do the Aurelian carrier fleet, the Federal Republic Of Aurelia the nation who is our latest war participant but its carrier force is a lot smaller than I’d expect it to be so this will be a short one well let’s rock and roll.

We start in the 1950s with Aurelia operating a single Colossus-class light aircraft carrier which served through the 1960s where it was joined by another Colossus-class light aircraft carrier but the first was decommissioned in 1970 while the Colossus-class light aircraft carrier served throughout the rest of the 70s all of the 80s and 90s until retirement in 97.

Sometime between 2000 and the Lighthouse war of 2019 Aurelia’s navy obtained three Kitty-Hawk class aircraft carriers likely bought from the Osea during their restructuring or where built by them but in 2020 Aurelia only had a lone Kitty-Hawk class aircraft carrier who’s fate isn’t very clear but where did the other two go?

Well somehow between 2010 and 2019 Leasath likely captured two Aurelian Navy’s Kitty-Hawk class aircraft carriers along with multiple Aurelian Navy vessels which included one Iowa class battleship, one La Fayette class frigate converted into a command ship, five Ticonderoga class aegis cruisers, seven Hatakaze class destroyers, five Cassard class frigates, two Pegasus class missile boat, nine San Giorgio class landing ships, one Towada class supply ship which were sunk during the war with the bulk of the captured sunk during the battle of the Danern Straits. Leasath also captured nine commercial container ships which Aurelians also sank.

So where do I see Aurelia taking its carrier fleet well I can see Aurelia being sold Osea’s Enterprise class aircraft carrier to replace their two lost Kitty-Hawks.

so this is the end of this series I just figured a bonus would be nice

Erusean Navy carriers throughout the decades

Ahh the Kingdom of Erusea a nation who dreams big only to be crushed by the big players twice but as with other nations I’ve covered their carrier force has varied over the years n the level of Belka so let’s begin

we start Erusea’s carrier aviation in the 1920s with an incomplete normandie class dreadnought battleship converted into a normandie class aircraft carrier which remained their only carrier throughout the 1930s.

in the 40s Erusea really built up its fleet with joffre class aircraft carriers which if you’ve never heard of them, I don’t blame ya I doubt many have so time for a history lesson

The Joffre class aircraft carriers were aircraft carriers planned by the French in the 1930s which solved some problems that normandie class aircraft carrier had such as its aircraft elevators not reaching the hangar deck but the carriers were never finished as ww2 slowed the build and ultimately cancelled by the Nazis when France fell to them in 1940.

However that was real life, in strangereal however given there was some kind of conflict in the 40s of a scale which is unknown than I think Erusea would’ve build them to bolster its naval supremacy against its probable rival North Point who’s carrier force was 0.13 times larger while the rest of the fleet was made up of the Normandie class aircraft carrier and a North Point merchant ship converted into an avenger-class escort aircraft carrier.

As the 50s came to greet us the Erusean navy’s carrier force stayed about the same but changed heavily as the Joffre class aircraft carriers were either sunk during the 40s or survived to be scrapped and replaced by a Verdun class aircraft carrier so time for your 2nd history lesson

The Verdun class was a proposed aircraft carrier under development by France in 1950s for the nuclear strike role as the Clemenceau class aircraft carriers were due to enter service in 1961, according to the specs I found.

The ship would have displaced 45,000 tons with a length of 860 feet and width of 112 feet putting it at an equal tonnage to the US Midway class carriers and the UK cancelled Malta class carriers, her propulsion would have been steam turbines with 4 shafts generating 200,000 shaft horsepower giving her a speed of 33 knots equal to those other 2 carriers I mentioned but her air defense armament would have been made of two masurca surface to air missile batteries and four 3.9 inch dual-purpose guns. The ship was ultimately cancelled in 1961 with the Clemenceau class taking over the role it was designed to do.

In Strangereal Erusea seeing Osea’s Midway class and North Point’s Malta class carriers built the Verdun class to compete so Erusea could challenge North Point for control of the Usean continent.

The rest of the fleet was made up of an ageing Normandie class aircraft carrier and 2 ex-Osean Navy independence class light aircraft carriers.

As the 1960s came in Erusea fleet grew to 6 carriers with the 1 verdun class and the brand new clemenceau class aircraft carriers while the light carrier fleet gained a colossus class light aircraft carrier to replace the obsolete Normandie class aircraft carrier alongside the independence class light aircraft carrier.

we come to 1970s where the Erusean carrier fleet was cut in half with the retirement of the light carrier fleet leaving the verdun class and clemenceau class aircraft carrier which remained throughout the 80s until we come to the 90s

Erusea’s 1990s carrier force grew to four ships consisting of its verdun class, clemenceau class and its new nuclear powered charles de gaulle class aircraft carrier which probably got involved in Usean rebellion and then the Ulysses disaster but things were to change

As the first decade of the 21st century Erusea had likely retired their verdun class and clemenceau class carriers and obtained an osean kitty-hawk class aircraft carriers but when the continental war broke out the verdun and clemenceau class aircraft carriers would have been recommissioned and if they weren’t sunk in the war then would likely get impounded by ISAF then when returned to Erusea they were likely sold for scrap as for charles de gaulle class carrier I suspect it wasn’t returned for years.

We come to 2010s and the Lighthouse War and during the proceeding years Erusea had been rebuilding its fleet with a single admiral kuznetzov class and the charles de gaulle class aircraft carrier although the Kuznetzov carrier the Njord got sunk at snider’s top by an Osean air strike.

We move to our present decade of the 2020s and despite getting it butt handed to it and taking major damage has the charles de gaulle class aircraft carrier as the flagship although given its age of 34 years and the expensive cost of operating a nuclear carrier I think Erusea will decommission the charles de gaulle class aircraft carrier within the next few years and replace it with a single PA2 carrier or as I dub it the Queen Rosanna D’Elise class aircraft carrier, I already explained this ship so i’ll link my Erusean navy 2021 post in this so you can go read that instead

My Erusean Navy – 2021

the final ship in the Erusean navy carrier fleet is a single mistral class helicopter carrier converted into a light aircraft carrier but I explained that in the erusean navy 2021 post so the Erusean navy’s fleet was interesting to look through with some interesting ships they had but alas it wasn’t enough to secure their goal of hegemony over Usea.

Yuketobanian Carriers Through Time

Since I covered Osea previously I figured I should have their superpower rival Yuketobania whose only been operating carriers for 4 and half decades which is less than half of how long Osean has been doing carrier aviation.

I’ll start at the 1970s as the Mosaka class was a helicopter carrier so doesn’t count as an aircraft carrier.

The Yuketobanian Navy in 1970s had 3 Kiev class aircraft carriers which is 8.6 times than the Osean navy at the same time.

As the Osea-Yuketobania cold war set in 1980s with the Yuketobanian carrier force more than doubled to 7 ships which were 4 Kiev class aircraft carrier and 3 Admiral Kuznetzov class aircraft carriers.

Now we come to the Belkan War of 1995 from Ace Combat 0, the Yuketobanian Navy’s carrier force reached its peak at 9 ships which is 23 times smaller than Osea’s carrier force was when it was at its peak but Yuketobania had more carriers than Osea did at this time period, their fleet consisted of 4 Kiev class aircraft carrier, 3 Admiral Kuznetzov class aircraft carrier and 2 Ulyanovsk class aircraft carriers which were Yuketobania’s answer to the Osean Nimitz

we move to 2010’s Circum-Pacific War in Ace Combat 5 where the Yuketobanian Navy had reduced its carrier force down to 2 Ulyanovsk class aircraft carrier and 3 Admiral Kuznetzov class aircraft carriers the YNS Admiral Bashev, Admiral Moleva and Admiral Tsanev however Admiral Tsanev got sunk in Operation Glory Horn.

after the war ended what would the fleet look like now a decade later well its very likely that they’d still have in the 2020s their fleet would be half the size of Osea’s current carrier force with 2 Ulyanovsk class and the 2 Admiral Kuznetzov class aircraft carriers the YNS Admiral Bashev and Admiral Moleva

but where do I see the Yuketobanian Navy in the future well as the ageing 2 Ulyanovsk class and Admiral Kuznetzov class aircraft carriers are nearing the end of their service lives with the project 23000e or likely named Shtorm class aircraft carrier and a conventional powered carrier version of the Shtorm class aircraft carrier and a multi-purpose light aircraft carrier although its unknown at this time how many are planned

H-11A Dolphin

inspired by Ace Combat 5’s H-9 I decided to make my own and this is one of the 3 the h-11a dolphin which takes the forward half of the Osean hh-65c Dolphin Search and Rescue Helicopter and the rear half of the Erusean ec-155 long range passenger helicopter and i did make military modifications.

The first is the AH-11A Dolphin which is a medium sized attack helicopter that has two M197 Gatling guns that are usually in turret position inside the cabin while its external weapons consist of two BGM-71E Tow anti-tank missiles and LAU-69D rocket pods.

The only armed force to operate this modification is the IUN-PKF although I might give them to Osea to bolster its ah-6 little bird and ah-64 apaches.

The 2nd variant is the HH-11A Dolphin which is short range Search and Rescue helicopter that was the 1st variant I designed and this one is operated by both IUN-PKF and UPEO but also the Erusean Air Force as well as the Osean Coastal Defense Force and Maritime Defense force as the Carrier Search and Rescue helicopter which replaced older HH-9Bs in the short range carrier Search and Rescue role.

Variant number 3 is the MH-11A Dolphin which will be the backbone of Erusea’s special operations insertion force for deploying their special operations teams against Erusea’s enemies.

The 4th modification is the SH-11A Dolphin which serves an Anti-Submarine and Anti-Surface Warfare helicopter that could carry four Exocet anti-ship missiles for Anti-Surface Warfare or mark 46 homing torpedoes for Anti-Submarine Warfare or a mixture of both. The Erusean Royal Navy and UPEO operate the helicopter.

The final two modifications are the UH-11A Dolphin utility helicopter and VH-11A Dolphin VIP transport that are only operated by UPEO

If anyone is wondering I have wrote some descriptions of what these variants looked like well take a look

Osea’s H-11A Dolphins

hh-11a dolphin – OCDF
a white and orange h-11a dolphin that had a winch attached to the right side of the engine cowling

hh-11a dolphin – OMDF
a light grey with white camouflaged h-11a dolphin that had a winch attached to the right side of the engine cowling

Erusea’s H-11A Dolphins

mh-11a dolphin – Erusean Special Force
a black h-11a dolphin that a refuelling probe and flir pod fixed on each side of its nose with a camera bulit in below whilst the cabin had two m197 cannons fixed on turret ahead of the seats.

sh-11a dolphin – Erusean Royal Navy
a two tone sea blue and navy blue camouflaged h-11a dolphin that has missile rail fixed to the belly and a search radar fixed to the nose.

UPEO’s H-11A Dolphins

sh-11a dolphin – UPEO
a blue with light and dark grey camouflaged SH-11A Dolphin which had a search radar fixed to the nose while on the lower fuselage pylons were two mk.46 torpedoes and Exocet missiles.

uh-11a dolphin – UPEO
a grey uh-11a dolphin

vh-11a dolphin – UPEO
an ice white vh-11a dolphin

IUN-PKF’s H-11A Dolphins

ah-11a dolphin – IUN-PKF
a two tone light brown and desert brown camofluaged AH-11A Dolphin that had two M197 cannon mounted sticking out of the cabin with two pylons mounted below the cabin that had two BGM-71E Tow anti-tank missiles and LAU-69D rocket pods.

hh-11a dolphin – IUN-PKF
an yellow hh-11a dolphin that had a winch on the left side engine cowling with the word rescue on the fuselage

Federation of Central Usean Navy

So The Usean Navy a force who lost 36 ships in a rebellion over 2 decades ago and 2 wars later they’re not seen but this is what I think they probably look like

Well to start off with the carrier which I think be the venerable Kitty-Hawk Class Aircraft Carriers because as good as the Nimitz and Gerald.R.Ford Class Aircraft Carriers are they are too much for the Usean Government to operate so they kept their Kitty-Hawks as they can carry about as many aircraft as the Osean Supercarriers and have a smaller Juan Carlos 1 Class Aircraft Carriers, even though Emmeria has one and Estovakia had one but it got sunk although I think it’s likely Osea and Emmeria would be watching these Nimitz and Gerald.R.Ford Class Aircraft Carriers in case their nuclear material leaks.

For the Cruisers well the only choice they’d have is the Osean Ticonderoga Class Aegis Cruisers and Sapinish Alvaro De Bazan Class Aegis Frigates as there really aren’t alternatives.

The Corvette fleet consists of the Ching Chiang Tuo Chiang Class Corvettes and a single an LST-542 Class converted Command Ship

Despite their being a load of destroyers defecting they’d probably stick and expand their fleet of Osean Hatakaze Class Destroyers and bring surplus Sovremenny Class Destroyers along with refurbished Osean Navy Kidd Class destroyers.

The same for their fleet of Cassard Class Frigates which would be bolstered by Osea’s Oilver-Hazard Perry Class Frigates along with refurbished Osean Navy Knox class Frigates, Erusean Navy La Fayette class Frigate and Sapin based Santa Maria class Frigates

the San Giorgio Class Landing Ship would be the lead ships in the Landing Ship fleet which would be made from Ex-Osean Navy Newport, Anchorage, LST-1 and Galicia class landing ships which carry the Pormornik Class and Yuyi class Hovercraft.

The Missile Boat tasks would be handled by the Kuang Hua 6-Class Missile Boats while Usea would have a large fleet of Gunboats consisting of Sapin made Serviola Class, Anaga Class, Toralla Class, Aresa Class and Cabo Gradera Class Gunboats.

The Offshore Patrol Boat Fleet would the responsibility of the Guaiquerí Class and Guaicamacuto class offshore patrol boat while the Supply ship fleet is made of the Pan Shi and Wu Yi class supply ship with the Contramaestre Casado Class Cargo ships providing Logistical transportation and the Patino class and Cantabria class oil tanker

As for its submarine force I’d say they after losing both of their Dragonet class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines that they’d operate a small fleet of Ohio Class SSBNs along with a couple SSNs in the form of Los Angeles while Osean would probably provide refurbished Haraushio and Oyashio class SSK hunter-killer Submarines which would have a Sapin made Galerna Class, An Ex-Nordlands Navy Zwaaardvis Class and an ancient 1940s era ex-Osean Navy Trench class attack submarine

Moving onto the Naval air arms I’ll start with the Combat Aircraft which would for its fighter force would be F-14AM+ and BM model Tomcat which if you’ve not heard of the F-14A+ well it was a re-engined F-14A tomcat taking the F-14A airframe and switching the unreliable and underpowered TF30-414As which could only put out about 10,800ibs of dry thrust and 20,900ibs with afterburner with the F110-400 which was a more reliable and more powerful engine these were known as F-14A+ till being redesignated F-14Bs but in Strangereal they are two different aircraft. I figured as Usea couldn’t afford any more F-35s so they’d buy refurbished and modernized F-14A+ and B model Tomcat making them F-14AM+ and BM model Tomcats.

They’d also have some F-15N Sea Eagles and F-16N Sea Falcons which are the designation for US Navy aggressor aircraft applied to the proposed vought model 1600 which was a navalised version of the F-16A Fighting Falcon.

Now onto their Strike aircraft which would mainly have A-6F intruders which I guess no-one knows what the A-6F Intruder 2 is well in 1980s there was a proposal for an A-6F Intruder 2 which would have had an additional wing hardpoint giving the Intruder 2 more ordinance capacity over the older A-6s and replaced the older fuel inefficient two J52-8B turbojets which could produce 9300ibs of thrust with the two 11000ib F404-402 turbofans from the F-18 Hornet and its avionics were upgraded to the ones found on the Air Force Strike Eagles while IRL the A-6F got canned in favour of the A-12 Avenger 2 which itself got canned and its job taken by the Super Hornets.

In Strangereal I could see Osea having built this aircraft and using it to replace ageing and inefficient A-6E Intruders until the end of 2010 Circum-Pacfic War where the Oseans sold their fleet of A-6Fs to the Usean Navy.

For their Carrier Onboard Electronic Warfare platforms the Usean Navy would use the EA-6B Prowler and EA-6H Prowler 2. the EA-6B is the real world version the EA-6H is my fictional modification of the A-6F following the same basic idea that created the EA-6B Prowler.

Both would have redesigned fuselages with the Prowler 1 have more powerful but still older and fuel inefficient 10,400ib j52-408a turbojets while EA-6H Prowler 2 would have the more fuel economic 14,000ib f414-400 turbofan and avionics from Osea’s EA-18G Growlers which replaced the Osean navy’s prowler 2 and prowler fleets in the years after the Circum-Pacfic war.

To bolster their strike aircraft fleet would be some refurbished Osean Navy A-7E Corsair 2s that despite their age and less fuel efficient tf41s that are an Osean versions of the North Point RB.189-25R Spey turbofan which has a respectable weapons load and cannon ammo for its time and AV-8B+ Harrier 2s.

Moving onto the Cargo Transport fleet which for large Carrier-onboard Delivery operations would be served by C-2A Greyhounds which are ideal as they like had been using them form a good while now. Their main cargo transport needs would be served by a handful of ex-Osean Marine Corps KC-130F and R Tankers converted into transport planes and Sapin C212-400 Light Cargo Transports.

For Electronic Warfare duties like carrier AEWC the Usean Navy would have E-2C Hwakeyes while communication with ballistic missile submarines would be served by EC-130Qs sold to Usea by Osea in the early 90s and their Electronic Intelligence gathering planes would be Osean and Sapin Navy P-3AM Orions converted to the Electronic Intelligence gathering role and some retired Osean Navy EP-3E Aries and Aries 2 while the Carrier Electronic Intelligence gathering would be covered by ES-2T Turbo Trackers.

With the tanker fleet the Usean Navy would for their Carrier-onboard Tanker use A-6F Intruder 2s as KA-6I Intruder 2s and have some KC-130F and Rs for Tanker and Transport duties.

To guard their coastlines they’d obtain and modernize a fleet of Osean and Sapin P-3A Orions into P-3AM Orions but some would be converted into other roles such as the one I’ll talk about a little later and the one up next. However the Orions would only be one part in a quad of maritime patrol fleet which would be Osean 757 converted airliners into 757-200MPAs and short range Yuketobanian Be-6P Madge flying boats and Sapin C212-200MPAs for pirate shipping surveillance.


For their Signals Intelligence gathering as they likely couldn’t afford UAVs as they are very costly and need specialised equipment so instead they converted some P-3AMs into RP-3AMs but for Carrier-borne Signals Intelligence gathering would fall to the RS-2T Turbo Tracker.

Now as Usea operates a carrier force they’d need a Carrier-borne Anti-Submarine Warfare which is fulfilled by the S-3A Viking although the amount Usea has are the only A-model Vikings as Osea’s were all converted to B-model Vikings however they’d also use the S-2T Turbo Tracker which was a retired Osea S-2E and 2G Trackers replacing the outdated and obsolete 1525 Horsepower R-1820-82A Cyclone piston radial engines with a pair of 1645 Horsepower TPE 331-15 Turboprops to provide short range Carrier-borne Anti-Submarine Warfare.

As for their trainer that was mostly filled with conversion trainers that included the TA-6A Intruder and TEA-6A Intruder, TA-7E Corsair 2, TAV-8B+ Harriers and TP-3AM Orion which used for P-3 training and multi-engined training. As for the TF-15N Sea Eagle and TF-16N Sea Falcon that is another aggressor aircraft name applied to a modified F-15N and F-16N converted into a trainers.

The Usean Navy’s utility fleet would be made up of Osean C550 Citation 2 and Light Carrier-onboard Delivery is the responsibility of US-2T Turbo Trackers.

As for the VIP Transportation I figured they’d operate some G-3 and G-4 business jets as the C-20D and C-20G along with Emmerian CR-200 and CRJ-700SE and Yuketobanian Tu-154M Careless business jetliners.

When it comes to the helicopter force The Usean Navy probably would go for something cheaper as their carrier-based Attack Helicopter would be filled by the KA-27VP Helix-D

The H-3 Sea Kings may be older but still gets the job done and so they bought a load of surplus Osean navy h-3 sea kings for multiple roles such as the CH-3G Sea King shuttle people to and from the carrier when its near port while the shuttle between the ships of a carrier strike group would be the task of the KA-29TB Helix-B, the Helicopter Transport between naval bases would be fulfilled by Erusean EC225LP Super Puma Mk.2+, Yuketobanian Mil Mi-8T Hip-C and Mi-17V-5 hip-H and Osean CM-1 Blue Hawk vairant of Osea’s H-9 Civilian Helicopter

The Usean Navy’s Carrier based Electronic Warfare Helicopters would a mixture of Yuketobanian KA-31 Helix and Osean EH-3G Sea King.

For carrier based CsaR and SaR took SH-3As and converted them into HH-3A Sea Kings while land based Search and Rescue would be the role of and Erusean EC225LP Super Puma Mk.2+ and C-1A Blue Hawk and C-6 Super Blue Hawks modifications of Osean H-9 helicopters.

Minesweeping took SH-3As and converted them into RH-3A Sea Kings.

As for the carrier Anti-Submarine Warfare helicopter would be as Usea likely isn’t able to buy newer MH-60R Seahawk helicopters so they’d buy a handful of D and H-model Sea kings along with CM-2 Blue Hawks versions of the H-9 along with surplus SH-60B Seahawk, SH-60F Oceanhawks and KA-27PL Helix-A and commercial MD-500MD Defenders converted to Anti-Submarine Warfare.

the fleet of Training Helicopters which I forgot previously would be handled by Erusean AS350B3 Ecureuil and EC120 Colibri and Osean
MD500M Defenders.

Other SH-3D and SH-3H Sea kings into Utility transport helicopters for a fleet which would be further expanded by Erusean SA341L Gazelle, Osean UH-1N Twin Huey, C-1, CM-1 and CM-2 mods of the H-9, Yuke KA-32S Helix-C and the Joint Erusean , Emmerian and Nordlands NH-90 TTH while a few H-3A Sea Kings into VH-3A Sea Kings with Erusean AS332L1 Super Puma and EC225LP Super Puma Mk.2+

I know most of this is out of date aircraft but Usea’s economy is a wreck given the Usean rebellion, an asteroid impact, the 2 continental wars, 2 Free Erusea uprisings with all of that and multiple economic crisis caused by those events yeah the Usean Navy has to take whatever it can get

so if anyone wants to tell me what Usea was based on that would be helpful

CVA-01 aircraft carrier

so i was digging around for a possible post on North point’s aircraft carriers throughout the 110 years that irl my country had been using aircraft carriers and came across the proposed CVA-01 design which was my nation’s equal to the USA Kitty-Hawk Class Aircraft Carrier and would likely called the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier or as I’ll call her the Queen Victoria class

she would have displaced 54,500 tons and 63,000 tons at her full load, she’d have been 925 feet long with a width of 184 feet and a draught of 33 feet

she would have had 6 admiralty boilers with 3 parson steam turbines giving her 135,000 horsepower to 3 shafts giving her a speed of 30 knots giving her a range of 8077 miles

The crew compliment was planned to be 3,250 plus air crews

this is what the CVA-01’s armament would have been in 1970s 18 f-4k phantom 2 fighters, 18 b.103 buccaneer s.2 strike aircraft, 4 gannet aew.3 airborne early warning aircraft, 1 gannet cod.4 carrier on board delivery plane.

The Helicopter wing would have been 4 ws-61 sea king has.1 Anti-Submarine Warfare Helicopters and 2 ws-58 wessex has.1 Search and Rescue helicopters.

the CVA-01’s air defense would have been handled by 1 twin Sea Dart GWS-30 and 4 Sea Cat GWS-20

moving into fanon territory now

had North Point kept it then this would have been her armament in a refit during the late 1990s to early 2000s

her powerplant would have been upgraded to 3 North Point built tm3b gas turbines with 4x valenta diesel generators producing 150,000 shaft horsepower

her fixed wing fleet would be filled by 20 ef-2000n typhoon and 18x f-4k phantom 2 fighters with its helicopter force would have consisted of 4 ws-61 sea king hc.4 Cargo Helicopters, 2 ws-61 sea king aew.5 Airborne Early Warning Helicopters and 4 ws-61 sea king has.6 Anti-Submarine Warfare Helicopters and 2 ws-61 sea king har.5 Search and Rescue Helicopters.

its air defence armament would have been upgraded to 1 two-rail gws-31 for Sea Dart mk.2 SAMs,
2 four-rail gws-24 – Sea Cat SAMs and 2x phalanx cwis

so ultimately IRL the british just couldn’t afford these ships but maybe in Strangereal North Point built them but they likely left service before the Circum-Pacific War if the costs operating didn’t take them out of service being replaced by the new Queen Elizabeth class carriers then its likely they might have been sunk in the 1st Continental War