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[Star Trek] Does the Federation or any of its Strategic Competitors have any "Aircraft Carrier" type forces to complement their more familiar "Capital Ships" types of fleets?

To elaborate, the Enterprise and its usual opponents are equivalent to Heavy Cruisers or Battleships.

A Bird of Prey or a Voyager level ship is sort of like  a Destroyer or Destroyer Escort.

Since we've seen that Federation Shuttlecraft have strong enough shields to take a few hits, and are large enough to carry a few photon torpedoes, are there "Fighter/Bomber Carrier" ships in the respective fleets that we just don't see onscreen?
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The Akira-class was envisioned by the creator as a hybrid carrier, though it's never been depicted as such on screen. It has the shuttle bays positioned for a direct pass through the ship though, similar to a Battlestars flight decks.

The battle at the end of Disco S2 shows that Connies, Crossfields, and whatever S31 had were capable of putting a lot of small support craft on field.

I'd bet they developed dedicated fighters after Voyagers return though. In an alternative timeline where Harry doesn't get the Voyager posting we see he goes into small ship design. If he goes on to do that on his return and enlists help from Tom and B'elanna (Seven seems unlikely), they ought to be churning out the successors to the Delta Flyers since they proved so incredibly effective.