"At the risk of being accused of prevarication, there's a long way to go from trialling the concept at A&AEE (or even aboard the vast number of large deck carriers that are available for such trials) to using the idea operationally."
Indeed. But one has to start looking at the problem somewhere and when one's gathered up lots of questions to ask then it might be a good idea to see what can be done experimentally in the way of finding answers. One would need a time machine to involve A&AEE however, and if one had such a device one would of course go to NAD at RAE(B) in the first instance.
On an entirely unconnected matter, does anyone know what the Kuznetsov's schedule is this year?
