Firstly, a carrier is a naval ship. The Air Force of today tends to be based off of airstrips and other bases, and tends to act in a long-range strike or short-range defense role. Navies are used to project power, specifically with the mobile air bases called carriers. To be honest though, this is a bit irrelevant, as this is space, and not the sea.
I can't see atmospheric-only aircraft being used to support any offensive actions, as this limits their ability to land anywhere except on ships specifically designed to extract them from the atmosphere. As for aircraft already being able to go into space for a short time, I'd say that's more due to the momentum generated by going up at an angle of 45 degrees at mach 3 than any real method of propulsion once in space. Again though, Im not an aerospace engineer.
My main issue though is that, at the moment, and contrary to how you believe the LAF will be seen, I do feel that it is "just another Liberty group". It's not really fresh as an idea, as we saw with the LMC (marines, airforce, different department, same reason for creation). I also feel that we may encounter similar problems with cooperating. This is what causes me to groan the most, as [LN] has been down that well-trodden path many times before. When I hear "seperate command structure", I also hear "will be considered with the same authority as LN HC", which is what other groups have expected in the past, without putting in the effort required for such a position of authority. This was the root of the problems we had in cooperating.
By all means try to succeed, but if you're looking for support, I am skeptical at best. Typical British cynicism, I suppose.
The carrier point you bring up is a valid one, and one I do agree with you on. I'll think about possible solutions. Maybe RPing that the Carrier is Navy commanded but Air Force pilots and maintenance crews? If you have any suggestions, please advice.
I'm not entirely certain what you're getting at in the 2nd paragraph. We're not in atmospheric ships. The Air Force has them, but we're attempting to RP that the Air Force is using Navy equipment to conduct Air Force Operations over a larger field of battle and into new fields of battle. I.E, space.
I won't lie, this is pretty much 'another Liberty group' but I'm wanting to make it one of the finest. Forum perfection and creation mixed with disciplined and exciting in-game action. We won't be flying Caps around trying to act like the big boys, we aren't going to attack every rogue we see. We're going to actually, for the first time ever in Liberty history. Act like a military and not a mix of cop and fighter pilot.
I am no way in hell saying that our 'Space Command' (Faction leadership pretty much) rivals the [LN] HC. Since inRP that wouldn't happen due to the Navy dominating space, but also ooRP, I'm not going to rival the chaps who A, have the experience. B, the official power and ruling & C, the manpower. I'm going to work with them, not away from them.
