@Hitman:
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Here's an alternative for you: Make an invisible unarmed ship that is linked to an airbase (Aircraft carrier) that spaws the period appropiate aircraft. Then you have it patrol the Bay of Biscay or whatever area you want.
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Hi Hitman, nice to see you're still around and active.
If your intention is: place an airbase on the aircraft-carrier, then NYGM has already a very similar solution for the Bay of Biscay. Specifically, it has an air-base placed 800m in the air above the western Bay of Biscay (completely invisible!) stocked with bombers of deliberately short (500km) range. This creates frequent air attacks on a U-boat trying to get in or out of the Atlantic. It is very effective, and forces all U-boats to hug the north coast of Spain to get to/from the Atlantic. There are constant air attacks.
The big problem is that it is impossible to move through the middle of the Bay of Biscay without very, very frequent air attacks. If you are returning from a patrol off Iceland, you have to return to base in a wide loop, finally coming up the west coast of Spain from the south in order to crawl along the north coast back to base.
Likewise, schnorchel patrols close to Britain in 1944-5 are hindered by constant attacks by aircraft spawned from land bases. The central problem is that the closer you are to an air-base, the more frequently aircraft from it attack (probably an inverse square-rule by the devs).
@Areo16:
Acknowledged with thanks.
Stiebler.