Who’s arguing? :confused: I merely pointed out that LHAs are primarily helicopter carriers first and Harrier carriers second. That’s why they don’t have a ramp. The reason the CVNs don’t have a ramp is it’s deck space you can’t use and when you have catapults you don’t need them anyway.
I think my point was that I wasnt ever talking about LHA’s they have the reason that they take up landing spots for Helicopters.
My point is that with a Ski Jump and I quote obi from another thread
As we are into calculations for takeoffs, I thought this might be of use. I get asked to explain the ski jump regularly, since many seem unable to grasp the point. When you leave the end of the ramp, you will only be at about 80 knots and you aren’t actually flying yet. But you are still accelerating and the ramp has converted some of your forward momentum into vertical thrust so you gain altitude whilst you are accelerating. Before you reach the top of the arc you will have reached true flying speed (about 130knots, and you will be at about 200ft). If there is a problem on takeoff such as engine failure, the pilot will have several extra seconds to decide what to do (eg eject) compared to the flat trajectory of a catapult launch. In the latter case a pilot coming off the end of a catapult with a serious malfunction will be lucky to have two seconds to join the Martin Baker appreciation society. EMALS offers the possibility of combining the two systems, gaining the extra safety of the ski jump and the extra payload of the catapult…;)
Also if the CVN does embark F-35B’s which I think they will due to the fact that as I said before the Marines will only buy this model, they will only be able to take off from the mid point blast deflectors aiming at the deck end of Cat 1 and 2 causing issues. With the ramp they could launch from Cat 1 and 2 positions without using the cats.
Also juding by this picture http://www.bluejacket.com/usn/images/sp/cv/cvn70_carlvinson.jpg the only thing i can think that you might lose is 2 plane parking spots . and even then only just.
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