To: sukhoi-30mki
How about another alternative:
Top deck: Recover aircraft ONLY.
Next Deck (Current Hanger Deck): Launch aircraft ONLY - through aperture in bow, or off-angle.
Next Deck: Hanger Deck.
result: ship is shorter, and one deck taller.
29 posted on
10/23/2017 12:30:12 PM PDT by
Darteaus94025
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To: Darteaus94025
The big IJN carriers were orginally built to fly aircraft directly from the hangar deck. The CV-5 Yorktown-class had hangar deck waist catapults that could launch a fighter or scout-bomber from the hangar deck. They were eventually removed from the Enterprise CV-6 and I don’t think that they were incluse at all in the Essex-class.
33 posted on
10/23/2017 12:43:29 PM PDT by
Tallguy
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To: Darteaus94025
Next Deck (Current Hanger Deck): Launch aircraft ONLY - through aperture in bow, or off-angle.
It's been done before ...
34 posted on
10/23/2017 12:48:15 PM PDT by
BlueLancer
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To: Darteaus94025
The Kaiser's navy designed that a century ago
47 posted on
10/23/2017 5:27:01 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
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