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Originally Posted by Rumblyguts
I thought that the angled deck was for simultaneous land/launch operations.
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This is true but is only part of the reason. The first angled decks appeared on the USS Antietam in 1946. It included an angled deck to accommodate the higher landing speeds of jets. The ability to launch and recover may have been an added benefit or part of the original concept. That I don't know.
The idea comes to us from the Brits.
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Last edited by Streck-Fu; 09-22-2014 at 10:52.
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