I wish the various sci fi communities would get together and find a common set of qualifications for their ships.
Here, a dred can carry fighters and big guns. Star Wars, a dred can carry fighters but it for the most part secondary to other cap ships (though they used to be the main ships). Star Trek it's just a capship, no fighters other than shuttles. Master of Orion it was the same as Trek. Independence War... well, that doesn't count, Dreadnaught was the name of the ship, not it's class.
It carries at least a squadron of fighters, should be a carrier. Oh well.