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Old 10th Jul 2019, 17:34
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The first carrier design had a ski-jump on the angled deck as well as the prow. The painted converging lines also indicated they did represent catapults.

The revised design sign eliminates the angled deck ski-jump, as well as widening the entire deck, and the painted lines are now parallel rather than converging. Both of which I take as an indication that they have fitted catapult(s) to support launches both at higher weights - together with the fact that they are working in an EMALS......

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