Arthur
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What's your source or rational for this wild estimates.
Both Thailand and Argentina possessed light carriers with the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo having 19900 tonnes displacement and the HTMS Chakri naruebet being 11486 tonnes diplacement.
Unfortunately no one builds fleet carriers this small anymore with the smallest under construction being the almost complete 40000 tone INS Vikrant.
If Bangladesh goes for a carrier it will most like be an LHD which come in the range of 15000 - 25000 tonnes and are much more manageable and also suits their current doctrine.
They can go for the VSTOL 26000 tonne Juan Carlos Class but they will have to sell their soul to the US for F35s if they want to operate fixed wing aircraft from it.
Actually, some naval fighter like Mig-29Ks could take off the ski-jump deck with a taxiing of rough 100 meters with semi-oiled and semi-armed state.
As soon as the deck of the ship is longer than 200 meters , it could deploy MIG-29Ks even Su-33 inefficiently but theoretically.
China actually has something that's very intriguing for me. This....
22000 tons & 198 meter. Some redesign to turn it into a ski jump -conventional carrier seems plausible. Can support a fixed wing aircraft like Mig 29k.