[jacobmuller]

Build it with the fighter weight included, reassess it's performance fighterless. Battlecarrier or somesuch in Traveller? Maintenance only on return to base or include a "dry-dock" facility to maintain in the field.
You'd either need fighters that were self-contained (power plants, reactionless drives and beams) or a hanger bay just for rearming/ refuelling/ repair. Oh, a space going aircraft carrier (Doh). Now where was that article about submersible aircraft carriers...