I'm writting a kind of "werewolf" story where the nazis go into hiding in Norway and Svalbard in 1945, and decides to fight back with I-400 submarines (thank you, surviving Yamamoto !) with H2O2 AIP systems. They spend ten years building strength and finally start chaos and havoc a day of 1955.
This cause a major threat to the USN and is essentially a pretext for a naval tech wank / wet dream. Make no mistake, I know it isn't quite realistic !
Since there are a shitload (50+23, and counting) of Casablanca, Sangamon, Commencement bay carriers in storage and good for nothing...
I wanted to turn these carriers into kind of "proto arsenal ships" with plenty of Vought Regulus and Regulus II missiles.
How hard would it be to stuff these old ships with Regulus and turn them into launch platforms ?
I'm thinking about very straightforward mods: essentially a huge lift for the missiles, carry them on the deck, fire, reload.
Think about a "floating Regulus shotgun platform" with little crew, a mere helicopter platform, and that's it. Those ships would be expendable cannon fodder.
