Abstract
Aircraft carrier capabilities are compared for catapult launched and arrested landing aircraft—CTOL aircraft, and short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft—V/STOL aircraft. The V/STOL aircraft are capable of takeoff and landing in the vertical mode with increased mission payload and performance when operated in an STO (short takeoff) overload condition. Investigations were conducted on how future generic aircraft were affected by the ship environment and how aircraft operations could be optimized. Starting with the CTOL aircraft, investigations were performed to determine the limiting operational factors and constraints. This established baseline parameters for the operational sensitivity studies. Sensitivity studies were then made comparing equal size and equal cost airwings. Results of these studies parametrically show the impact on sorties over all mission ranges out to 700 n.mi. at various cost levels.
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