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Originally Posted by JMH
Have you ever set foot on a real Aircraft Carrier?
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No, your point?
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The British CVF's are proposed carriers, they DO NOT EXIST. So to claim to know whether or not these PROPOSED CVF's will have catapults is rather foolish.
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I know, which is why I basically agreed with your non-supercarrier assessment by saying they have ski jumps instead.
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I have seen design plans for the CVF that include catapults and other design plans that do not include catapults. Why don't you tell the MOD what carriers to build with all your experience?
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It seems the tax money is needed as much as whatever experience I have which I cheerfully admit is none.
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All of this is pure speculation because these CVF's may NEVER be built. One thing that is more certain about these PROPOSED CVF's is that they will carry aircraft. The current AEW for the Royal Navy is based on a modified helicopter, so if the PROPOSED CVFs do not have catapults than Royal Navy could just continue using the AEW helicopters that it currently has.
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Which is why I referred to "proper AEW" and its difficulty without catapults. AEW gains altitude to see further over the horizon than a ship's mast at 50 feet. Using a helicopter, which has nowhere near the max altitude of a plane, really thus half-defeats the point of AEW, which is my big concern about the likely lack of catapults on the British CVF, because of its demonstrable importance (e.g. Falklands War.) And no need to get aggressive.