Flying Aircraft Carriers are Possible. Here's Why we Don't Use Them.

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@Verminator4

To me the likeliest reason something like this was never done was that half the reasons you might do it vanished with the advent of aerial refuelling and the rest are accounted for by strategic bombers with ALCMs

@theshinywaffle

I love messier 82 basically the reason why Ill be studying aviation/aerospace engineering soon.

@MagisterMalleus

Nuclear powered aircraft are all fun and games until you find yourself looking at Fukushima screaming out of the sky at 800mph.

@valdemarsimonsen9612

"in a world where Bezos invests in a sky carrier" me getting flashbacks to Max0r's Ace Combat 7 summary

@Leonidae

Flying dronecarriers I can see, but other than that is beyond practical.

@leemiles3995

Flying aircraft carriers are really cool, have you heard of the Russian 'Zveno' project from the 1930's. it ended up flying around 30 mission in active combat during WW2, and was surprisingly successful, despite being quite outdated. I just finished making a Kalinin K-7 Replica which carries deployable, and one controllable strike fighter(s)

@3DMVR

an ejection plane instead of a seat would be hilarious

@memethief4113

the radar dome's placement is a bit unrealistic, due to the size of the wings it would almost completely be blocked from looking down, which is a problem when this aircraft would have to be scanning well past the local curvature of the Earth. More likely a flying carrier of this size would have multiple phased array antennas across the leading edges of the wings, in the nose, and in the tail or in the wingtips so that it can have a 270 degree or greater radar arc around the aircraft.

@Maximum_777

It's funny that you mention the Arsenal Bird, the ACE Combat 7 drone mothership, but not ACE Combat 6's actual flying aircraft carrier/cruise missile platform, the P-1112 Aigaion. I think they did a good job of making it seem feasible, they mentioned how it was so big it was built on and took off from the ocean, and while it can land in the ocean it instead is kept continually in the air, used as their main "Heavy Command Cruiser" and they even show it being refueled by 6 DC10 tankers, which really puts its scale into perspective. They even took it a step further and had it be escorted like an actual aircraft carrier, always being accompanied by 4 smaller but still absolutely massive (I believe) drone gunships ,of which there were two different models of, I recall one specializing in missiles and electronic warfare, and the other just having turrets all over it. 100% By far my favorite example of the flying aircraft carrier concept.

@Runescope

Hey ... silly question ... why are the AWACS mounted on top of the plane? Wouldn't it hinder coverage of the ground? Wouldn't the plane itself block the radar? It's something I've always wondered about.

@yourfavoriteauntishere

“That’s all they’ve really been. A concept”

@LastGoatKnight

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@15DecibelFilms

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@Attaxalotl

That looks like one of the flying battleships from Project Wingman, which is something you might be interested in!

@Foxtrot_UniformCharlieKilo

2 more very valid reasons as to why areal Carriers are not becomming a thing.

@dexecuter18

I mean tbf. DARPA did put a contract out for large non ground effect restricted Ekranoplans recently. So maybe not far off even if "Move entire battalions across an ocean in a few hours" isn't as flashy as a flying aircraft carrier.