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Interesting is that kind of flightdeck, however I think you throw away a lot of aircraft parking space this way.

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yes indeed, but this config was intended for an as long as possible runway in an as short as possible ship.

btw, that thales mast isn't suitable for this ship. that is in an highly advanced phased array radar for an ship used for air defence, which this ship obviously is not. I would use an APAR+ SMART-L at max.....
also I doubt you could fit hawkeyes on a ship this size. but I'm not sure about that.....

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Hawkeye comes close to the bridge, but can be possible if i look in paint.

For the rest, indeed my thales mast is to advanced, and probaly useless on this ship, you can better use smart+L and some other radar added.

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You're not going to see strike Intruders, much less the A version on a ship in the 201*

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the problem is not recovery but launching and parking the thing. I doubt it is possible, and the original concept has only hornets and helicopters on board.

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The clear hangar bay height of the VSS designs (on which this is based) never exceeded 20'1", compared to the 25' of Forrestal (the first E-2 carrier) and later.

This, unfortunately, has been found to be a serious design pressure and is not a number you can handwave into a 20% increase. E-2s are not an option for you unless you're willing to accept a permanent deck park (which was effectively the case with the AJ Savage). I suspect launch and recovery will be fine, although parking is already severely constricted on this design.

If you are that set on having some kind of AEW aircraft maybe you should look into the RN soloution which was having the radar on a SeaKing helicopter.

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If you go that route, the various EV-22 designs would be a better fit. There was even one that put the radar above the fuselage (instead of inside it) so that the craft could fly above 15000 feet or so and stay pressurized.

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The height of the radome can be solved if the E-2 was modified to have the radome lower like on the Russian rival to the E-2.

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