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The minimum operating space requirements of conventional designs can be seen in STOBAR carriers (engineers can put up a ramp and arresting gear), which is merely a few multiple length of aircrafts already. If damage so so serious that even this level of operating surface is unavailable, it is unlikely that supporting infrastructure survived at all either. Ramps is after all, thrust vectoring for free so a neat solution.As for FARP in general, forward refueling from the air is safer and faster than landing, while fast rearm turn-around time hasn't been a big thing in air combat, with point defense interception mission done by SAM while offensive missions gets done by huge strike packages that require coordination with a lot of different and often large airframes. The need may be show itself if two equivalent air force go at it but it is a very unlikely situation and hasn't happened.If forward based CAS is needed, helicopters and STOL ground attack aircraft is available. Alternatively, modern "artillery" simply have enough range. to provide support without using aircraft.
The minimum operating space requirements of conventional designs can be seen in STOBAR carriers (engineers can put up a ramp and arresting gear), which is merely a few multiple length of aircrafts already. If damage so so serious that even this level of operating surface is unavailable, it is unlikely that supporting infrastructure survived at all either. Ramps is after all, thrust vectoring for free so a neat solution.
As for FARP in general, forward refueling from the air is safer and faster than landing, while fast rearm turn-around time hasn't been a big thing in air combat, with point defense interception mission done by SAM while offensive missions gets done by huge strike packages that require coordination with a lot of different and often large airframes. The need may be show itself if two equivalent air force go at it but it is a very unlikely situation and hasn't happened.
If forward based CAS is needed, helicopters and STOL ground attack aircraft is available. Alternatively, modern "artillery" simply have enough range. to provide support without using aircraft.
