Flight decks and hangar bays have always been tricky things. Half the time, it isn't even enemy fire that causes a major casualty. The USS Forestall is a prime example.
Carriers have their own hazards to deal with. It is often outweighed, however, by the simple fact that you have a mobile airfield that you can park wherever the water is deep enough to float it. It's all in how the operation is managed.
Anyhow, I don't see armor being an issue. It hardly costs a thing to Fen that have access to the kind of raw materials that the Roughriders do. And a hangar deck can be compartmentalized to minimize damage. It'll have to be, anyways, because this sucker will spend half it's lifetime operating in the black as well.
Carriers have their own hazards to deal with. It is often outweighed, however, by the simple fact that you have a mobile airfield that you can park wherever the water is deep enough to float it. It's all in how the operation is managed.
Anyhow, I don't see armor being an issue. It hardly costs a thing to Fen that have access to the kind of raw materials that the Roughriders do. And a hangar deck can be compartmentalized to minimize damage. It'll have to be, anyways, because this sucker will spend half it's lifetime operating in the black as well.