Given the drop in drag it offers and the large ratio of deck space to hull required a tri-hull carrier is bound to come off the drawing boards and into production soon. Something all electric or nuclear. Magnetic catapalt. loads of lifts and decks. Huge. I did wonder about a row of four 40 metre wide decks, each 230metres long, running diagonally in parallel along a 400 metre deck. Islands fore and aft would occupy the opposite diagonal corners. The port hull supports the front of the aft two decks and the starboard hull the rear of the foreward two decks. The four lifts alternate between optimised for take-off and landing on each deck. This is too big for existing facilities but could be assembled from modular hull and deck units. The three hulls would be launched separately. Then the hulls would be joined with additional superstructure and decking in the water. The central hull would have to be partially flooded to attain the correct level. Any comments on the feasability of all this? Any Trimaran Carrier ideas of your own? |