Forget the airborne aspect for a moment, does it work just as a regular ass carrier if it just stays at sea level?
>>64654971Not with having two different flight decks arranged like that. If it was one flight deck maybe.
>>64655013Its entire aircraft complement is VTOL though
>>64654971all that bullshit for only two catapults?
Aircraft shake too much so landing would be courting death imo.
>>64655029>vtol >runwayDumb design. Better off being individual cells for multiple simultaneous launches if they're all going to be vtol. Add in an area for emergency recovery and whatever else I may be missing.
>>64655035presume for a moment that VTOL isn't an option at altitude, and that stability augmentation systems can keep this thing no shakier than a regular ocean-going carrier is in the rough seas that still allow flight ops. and it's still a deathtrap for everyone on board because a missed approach puts you right into the intake hazard zone above the no. 1 fan
>>64654971The two flight decks only really makes sense with the hover aspect. I assume it goes faster than 30kn in the air, so the wind over the bow when underway could be dangerous for deck crew. The area under the angled flight deck could be a sheltered place to arm and fuel aircraft before moving them out to the bow cats.
>>64655029Not really, they had F-35s too
>>64655081F-35B
>>64654971>practicalWtf is wrong with you?
>>64654971Why is a long deck necessary for airborne aircraft carrier? It should fly faster than the take off speed of carried aircraft.
>>64655062This is why I prefer my version. The fans are now control towers and the fan frames are docking bays for drones/smaller vessels. Also the carrier itself is about 4k kilometers long and can accommodate frigates and destroyers.
>>64655103What if the wind turns?
>>64655106>4k meters/4km*
>>64654971Pretty sure it's based on the Akagi and Kaga's original configuration, three flight decks stacked right on top of each other (the Japs figured out it was shit pretty quickly though and had converted both ships to a single flight deck by 1935).
>>64655111The speed is always wind speed
>>64655062>intake zonem-maybe the fly off the back?
>>64655310No but you're not listening. I'm saying, what if the wind TURNS, as in goes the OTHER way? Do you even know how planes generate lift?
>>64655029why bother with vtol when they can just do regular takeoffs and use gravity to assist if it's a flying carrier
>>64655405Even if that is the case, just launch the other way as long as the speed is sufficient.
>>64655029pretty sure there were some conventional planes in the first movie, iirc there were a few alpha jets
>>64654971Angled deck is for takeoffs?>visible blast deflector on upper left>so takeoff path is right over giant fan on port bow?Genius
Imagine the turbulence
>>64654971NoA big cargo plane that can loiter at a speed higher than the stall speed of the planes it carries is the way to go for an airborne carrier. Launching and landing becomes easier than dealing with a runway and it'd actually be possibly unlike trying to keep 10s of millions of pounds in the air with some fans
>>64655091F-35B don't take off vertically. They can only land vertically after they're below a certain level of fuel.
>>64655288yeah I was gonna say
>>64656040the angled strip on an aircraft carrier is always the landing deck. the reason it is angled is so that if you miss, you can try again without passing directly over the entire length of t he ship. if you miss this one you are still getting sucked into a ducted fan, though, so better git gud.
>>64654971>overshoot the landing>get sucked into the forward turbineF.
>>64654971if a plane overruns the angeld landing deck, it will drop directly into the front left fan
As far as "what could have been" goes, I'm always fascinated by the thought that the US actually built and fielded two 800-foot zeppelins that carried a complement of five specially designed fighter biplanes that they could launch, retrieve and refuelIt's such a bizarre and unique concept, and it wasn't a vaporware sketch, they built the fucking things. And they might have changed warfare forever if they weren't pieces of shit that both crashed in bad weather.
>>64655288it looks like someone had the bright idea to do "what if Kaga, but modern"which isn't too shabby an idea>>64654971essentially it's two Nimitzes slapped together, but wastes far too much spacethere's also the huge problem that a cold shot from the upper deck will send the fighter straight into the port bow lift fan
