STOBAR seems to do exactly the same - get's more 'Air' from a given length of carrier deck, allowing Su-33s and MiG-29s to operate in numbers from very small ships.
Gorshkov, for instance, will be able to take 30 MiG-29s, and to operate waves of 12 of the bleedin' things. And it's a minnow of a ship, at 44,000 tonnes and 932 ft long - smaller than Ark Royal!