CATOBAR has no advantages for our Carrier Strike mission.
Longer range (+150 nm combat radius). Internal carriage of anti-ship/anti-radiation missiles. E-2 support.
STOVL deck qualifications are far easier than for either arrested recovery technique. Even SRL techniques….only essential under specific bringback weight conditions….are greatly simplified compared to a standard trap. Its been proven that STOVL pilots with no deck time whatsoever have been able to land on the smaller CVS deck. It would be considered poor form if a pilot was able to miss the roughly 4 acre deck of a QE whilst hovering over it.
With the Delta Flight Path, carrier landings have been greatly simplified as well.
F-35’s New Landing Technology May Simplify Carrier Operations
The dozen instructors with the squadron each completed the required 10 traps and two touch-and-go maneuvers in less than two days. But thanks to an advanced landing system in the fifth-generation aircraft that limits the variables pilots need to monitor when they catch the wire, officers with the squadron said they could have gotten the practice they needed in much less time.
“What has traditionally been required for initial qualifications … that can probably be reduced, because the task becomes mundane after a while,” said Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Kitts, officer in charge of the testing detachment aboard this ship. “You can make corrections so easily.”
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Cleveland said this new technology might enable the Navy to cut ashore training from 16 to 18 field carrier landing practices to between four and six. He said he also envisioned cutting carrier qualification requirements from ten to six traps in the future.
“That’s going to save money, that’s going to save fuel, that’s going to save aircraft life, basically,” he said.
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