Inspired by the converting naval units to BT units thread somewhere in Ground Warfare...
Siam Class Helicopter Carrier- Weight : 11,486 tons full load (6,835.5 tons light displacement)
- Chassis : Large Naval, Environmentally Sealed
- Template : C
- Tech Level : B
- Structure : IS 36
- Propulsion : ICE, maximum 29 knots / 54 km/h
- Crew : 28 officers, 112 enlisted incl. air crew
- Troops : 672
- Endurance : 92.7 days without troops / 9.3 days with troops onboard
- Range : 11,330 km at 17.5 knots cruise speed
- Battle Value: 5,947
- Cost : 30,394,770 C-Bills
- --- Vessel ---
- 2,539.0 tons - Chassis
- 2,618.0 tons - Engine
- 2,966.0 tons - Fuel
- 12.5 tons - Armor (198 points BAR5 - 33 per facing)
- 12.0 tons - Lifeboats (12 Maritime)
- 3.0 tons - Lift Hoist
- 3.0 tons - Communications
- --- Aviation ---
- 2,000.0 tons - Helipads (4)
- 700.0 tons - Light Vehicle Bays (14)
- --- Troops ---
- 120.0 tons - Foot Infantry Bays (24)
- 12.0 tons - Field Kitchens (4)
- 5.5 tons - MASH (three-theater)
- --- Armament ---
- 2.0 tons - Machine Guns (4)
- 2.0 tons - Vehicular Grenade Launchers (4 / Smoke Grenades)
- 0.5 tons - Pintle Mounts (0.1t)
- 15.0 tons - Ammunition (1500 per MG)
- 6.0 tons - Heat Sinks
- --- Cargo ---
- 34.5 tons - Cargo (Spare Parts)
- 351.0 tons - Cargo (Consumables)
- 84.0 tons - Cargo (ammunition and supplies for VTOLs, 6 tons each)
The above is an as-close-as-possible reproduction of the
Chakri Naruebet, a BIP class aircraft carrier in service with Thailand. You have to make do with VTOL operations, much like the actual ship - and, well, we can still park small craft on the deck.
The actual ship has five helicopter landing spots on its deck (instead of four), which doesn't fit the size envelope without lowering the range considerably below original specs; we also don't have an analog for the Sadral launchers, unless we design some really quirky early primitive one-shot SRM-6 prototypes. So instead the pintle-mounted machine guns stand in for the originally proposed four Phalanx (with heat sinks for viable rapid-fire use of the MGs), while the VGL mimic the mounted SRBOC.
In return the crew numbers are low by modern standards though, we have a 15% higher flank speed - and we can build the whole thing for half of the cost of the real ship.