RAMP

Ramps are maximum aesthetic

None of this flat yankee doodle shite

It makes sense, if lockheed didn't fuck up so massively

"flat yankee doodle shite" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(91)

You got me there

Or just get some swordfishes, surely Queen Elizabeth class can support those (:

Too bad the QE doesn't have the even flight deck or the steam catapults to use them properly

As for the fates of the British carriers with those traits,

```Completed: 4
Scrapped: 4```

```Fate: Sold for scrap in 1955
Status: Scrapped```

```Completed: 2
Scrapped: 2```

Nah, they could just take of backwards.

Not enough headwind

```Fate: Scrapped 1978```

It's a fucking biplane, how much headwind do you need?

I suggest the Sopwith Camel as a low cost alternative

Anything positive, which isn't what you'll get if you keep moving the ship forward but take off backwards. ```Fate: Scrapped 1980```

```Planned: 4
Cancelled: 4```

```Planned: 2
Cancelled: 2```

```Completed: 3
Scrapped: 3```

Better scrapped than blown up, like most US non-Essex main battle WW2 carriers

At least that's a warrior's death. Enterprise got scrapped, but other than that we bothered to actually save ships.

Or, in the case of USS Constitution, keep it in active commission in the US Navy and keep the ship sailing under her own power 200+ years later

Somehow I don't think the military planners are of the same opinion

as far as warrior's death is concerned

They actually do, because if you keep ships as museums, there exists a possibility to return them from the mothball

Anyway, contrast USS Constitution with HMS Victory, the latter of which looks like the ship's on fucking life support: https://www.nmrn.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/event-image-large/public/field/image/how_adjustable_steel_props_will_look_on_hms_victory_credit_nmrn_2.png?itok=A074yAfu

I was referring to the "warrior's death"

not that armoured carriers make sense nowadays....

That idea of preferring a ship be sunk than scrapped dates back nearly 200 years on this side of the Atlantic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ironsides_(poem)

American "history" lmao

No such thing

He says as the UK scraps would-be historical sites, while the Old Statehouse in Boston still stands from the days of the Boston Massacre

I love how Yanks get so proud of the frigates like the USS constitution when their navy was literally just those 3 frigates

6, though the real thing to be proud of is the 33-0 battle record on Connie

HMS Shannon hoves into view

Yeah the constitution was a really good design, but not good enough to hold a candle to the RN of the time

It was successful enough to outrun what it couldn't outgun or outgun what it couldn't outrun, and indeed as shown by the 57-hour chase involving 5 smaller Royal Navy ships, they could even outrun ships that were SUPPOSED to be able to outrun them

Basically the interwar UK battlecruiser doctrine

Yeah it was a fine ship, but there is a mystique around those ships that aint really justified