With a POD after August 1945 and no nuclear war have someone *other* than the US Navy have the largest Aircraft Carrier in the world at any point in the 70 years after WWII.
With a POD after August 1945 and no nuclear war have someone *other* than the US Navy have the largest Aircraft Carrier in the world at any point in the 70 years after WWII.
Have Japan lose a Yamato class battleship in shallow waters near Sakahlin . Have it fairly well torn up in regard tot he upperworks and turrets . Raise it and then over 20 years have the Soviet union use it first as a war trophy then as a hull to build a carrier on . Strip as much armour off as possible then give it a full length angled flight deck . Aircraft capacity will be approximately 2/3 of a Midway with a slightly shorter flight deck . With no war rush the reconstruction would take a long period of time and be disguised as scrapping the hull and learning about it's construction . I would guess a displacement of around 70,000 tons . making her similar in mass to a forrestal .
USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is a failure for whatever reason, the USN build more Kitty Hawks and JFK class carriers, while the Soviet Navy build Project Orel carriers from 1973 - Ullyanovsk class, but a decade earlier than OTL.