isn’t better for planes on carriers to start at the top of the ramp and get more speed down for takeoff instead of climbing the ramp?
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It works fine the way they do it. If the aircraft they launch need more airspeed, making the runway longer would be easier than having any ramp at all, so they would just do that. But they dont need it currently because they’ve designed both the carriers and the aircraft to be able to work with each other. Carrier designs are all old except for the US Navy’s Ford class and those are already designed and being constructed. The F35 is the only new aircraft. So we have what we have for now. Future carrier and naval aircraft designs may evolve, but those are decades away at least.
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