Also, people can barely land on an AF without crashing. Going to be funny to watch them try to land on a carrier, especially in aircraft without a tail hook
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I don’t think you’ll be seeing many people trying lol
Thinking about it, there will probably be more people trying to land non-naval planes on the carriers, coz you know, “if it has a hook, it has to be able to land on a carrier, right?”
I was about to question you about it being old, since I bought a brand new copy of it at a museum last year, but then I looked inside the magazine, with it having a copy right from 1995…
Which planes have a hook but can’t land on a carrier?
Tornado, F15, I think maybe F16s. Typhoon. Etc etc.
Arrestor hooks are also used on runways in an emergency
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All of them can land on carriers, but F-16s, F-15s, Jaguars, T-2s/F-1s, F-104s, Alpha Jets, etc aren’t built for carrier operations lol
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Imagine how large a carrier would have to be to let Tornados successfully take off lol
Just need some RATOs
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I haven’t tried in most of those but f16’s are quite easy to land on a carrier, I have it imagine some of those others are too. @Morvran too
Maybe, its getting down slow enough and balancing between stalling and flying. Also if the Carriers are moving in a circle then its nearly impossible.
Only aircraft other than the VTOLs that I can reliably land (In SB) is the Bucs and Sea Vixen
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I can imagine F-16s being easy to land on carriers, but realistically you wouldn’t be able to take off again in most non-naval planes
I’ve done carrier landings in the Jaguars and T-2 as well, but you know there are bound to be people out there trying to land Starfighters, Eagles and Tornados on the carriers.
Gonna be especially funny if Gaijin remembers to disable re-arming and repairing on carriers for non-naval planes.
The default is usually you just airspawn above the carrier if you arent in a carrier capable aircraft.
I know, they have airspawns as a failsafe/emergency option in a lot of different scenarios as well. A lot of the larger prop bombers get (or at least used to get) airspawned after landing on the smaller airfields and iirc hydroplanes get airspawned after re-arming near carriers
The ultimate flex is landing the F-104 on a carrier
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Makes me wonder, why didn’t they build a carrier with ZELL launchers for F-104 operations? 🤔
Tornado is smaller than f-14
Im now imagining something like USS Iowa with those instead of turrets :D
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The Tornado doesn’t have a catapult attachment, unlike the F-14
The F-14 also has much larger wings and more powerful engines, even when accounting for the general size and weight difference
you know that there are 2 other vtol fighters in develoopment in germany
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Yup and it’s a real shame they didn’t enter full production