That's y i always stress that we have a small aircraft carrier..
Combined the navy and airforce personel, may be we could have 2 aircraft carriers....another idea, create one or two of our the offshore islands as airforce bases.
Anyway, in few yrs time, our refineries will be a ghost town as m'sia is building the oil pipelines and refineries at thier northern states, thus avoiding singapore.
Is not easy to operate an Aircraft carrier as the manpower involved will be high. Moreover, I guess the Ministry of Defence will need to a reason to justify for the purchase / building the carrier. (Meaning, spending taxpayers' money?) - just my own thoughts.
As for Offshore island as airforce bases, just by building a runway need alot of land liao.