Originally Posted by
Sailvi767
You don’t think it’s a bit harder to land on a moving carrier than a fixed runway? It will be doing 10 to 30 knots speeds compounded with the deck heaving up and down and even tolling. I suspect that requires data links and software a order of magnitude more complex than a autoland to a fixed point.
the Navy has had ACLS Automatic Carrier Landing System) in ops for decades