Posts:2129 Joined: November 8th, 2010, 3:07 pm
Location: Norseland
Catapults on destroyers weren`t something that was easily done. Some Fletchers were outfitted with catapults. The catapults were removed because it was`t as good as they originally thought.
And these were done to only a select few destroyers with the intention of having them be flotilla scouts. Even if it was deemed successful you wouldn't have had every destroyer suddenly be equipped with a cat. It's more in line with IJN Oyodo which was intended to use aircraft for scouting.
Posts:1587 Joined: November 22nd, 2011, 4:47 am
Location: Marietta, Georgia - USA
Nope, not every one. This, if I do it, would be a 4 ship class, and would be used as flotilla scouts, like you said. Besides, what indication did I give that screamed "He's thrown the crazy switch", and that I would want all my DD's to have cats on them?
_________________ "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way." - The Seventh Doctor
Last edited by Zephyr on April 14th, 2012, 6:04 am, edited 1 time in total.
More realistically (though not to imply the other option is less realistic), you'd just have a floatplane that'd be lowered into the water by crane and take off by its own power.