The reason why modern aircraft carriers have a totally open top surface aside from the tower is if a pilot misses an arrestor cable they can throttle up and make another pass.
Unless all the craft that land on this are VTOL it’s a pretty terrible design by function, no matter how pretty it is.
All the fixed wing aircraft on it are F-35Bs which are STOVL (short take off vertical landing) and V-22 Ospreys (technically tilt-rotor but the wings themselves are stationary), which have both VTOL (vertical take off and landing) and STOL (short take off and landing) capabilities. So the idea that an open top surface ship can’t be designed just for VTOL, STOL, or STOVL fixed wing aircraft is ludicrous lol.
The reason why modern aircraft carriers have a totally open top surface aside from the tower is if a pilot misses an arrestor cable they can throttle up and make another pass.
Unless all the craft that land on this are VTOL it’s a pretty terrible design by function, no matter how pretty it is.
USS America (LHA-6): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/USS_America_(LHA-6)_F-35B_loaded.jpg
All the fixed wing aircraft on it are F-35Bs which are STOVL (short take off vertical landing) and V-22 Ospreys (technically tilt-rotor but the wings themselves are stationary), which have both VTOL (vertical take off and landing) and STOL (short take off and landing) capabilities. So the idea that an open top surface ship can’t be designed just for VTOL, STOL, or STOVL fixed wing aircraft is ludicrous lol.