Carrier based aircraft would primarily be excessively strong in the fuselage barrel area - right?
I seem to remember some discussion of this when there were cracks found in Hornet fuses.
I assume you essentially build a very strong `centre bit' of the fuse where the gear attaches... to absorb the loads... and then similarly the spine of the aircraft from the barrel to the tail is excessively strong to hang the engines off, and attach arrestor hook?