In the decades immediately following World War II, light aircraft carriers progressively decreased in number, becoming the solution for those navies that could not afford to maintain true fleet aircraft carriers. This trend became even more pronounced with the end of the Cold War and the withdrawal of many of the last exponents still in service. Now, faced with a new scenario of competition between great powers in which naval supremacy is no longer assured for the US and its allies and faced with the impossibility of operating a greater number of supercarriers of the Nimitz and Gerald R. Ford classes, the light aircraft carrier concept is regaining much of its appeal. Furthermore, not only thanks to the possibility of access - at least for some US partners - to the F-35B, but as a platform from which to operate fixed-wing drones, something that China and Turkey, among others, are working on.
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