Her deployment is described by most media (at least in Germany) as symbol to Putin, but she probably will not enter the Black Sea anyway.

not gonna happen. The Montreux Convention of 1936 forbids the transit of any non-black sea nation warships greater than 15,000 tons through the turkish straits (dardanelles & bosporus). A Modern USN aircraft carrier is around 100,000 tons. Since 1936, the black sea has been off limits for USN carriers.

It’s strange seeing the island so far back, I’m sure we’ll get used to it.

With the stern-creeping island, we’re getting ever closer to the maritime equivalent of an Imperial Star Destroyer………. which is nice.

Found them: Kaga, Akagi, Glorious, Courageous, and Furious.
The Japanese had 3 flight decks while the British had 2

in addition to those ships, the USN’s yorktown class carriers had a catapult on the hanger deck which could launch aircraft, but they proved ineffective in practice and were rarely used. the hanger deck catapult was not included in the design of the subsequent essex class carriers.

so all three of the the great carrier powers of WWII experimented with multi-deck launch and recovery operations in the pre-war era, but all three eventually abandoned such designs.

Sounds like France has given up on the PA-2 for good.

source?