Originally Posted by
Asturias56
I just can't see serious funds being made available to make big changes to the PoW class - and putting in any CATOBAR will be expensive
The question will be how compact an EMALS Solution can be shrinked and how the required electric energy for this could be provided. Any kind of Steam catapult we can forget, I guess. No way you would be able to squeeze that in somewhere as an afterthought.
For Recovery I'm curious to see what ideas come up. QE/PoW don't have angled decks and you would probably not want to land straight in towards the ramp, in case you miss the wire/wire breakage.