Commonwealth Defence - Phoenix-T Trimaran Aircraft Carrier A radical Commonwealth design for a future aircraft carrier and upgrade of the current Phoenix Class carriers.

Trimaran aircraft carrier. Trimarin Aircraft Carrier Aircraft carrier Navy aircraft carrier Us navy ships. The Independence class is a class of littoral combat ships built for the United States Navy. The whole point of a catamaran is to use more draft instead of more beam and carriers are already as deep as they can be.

Arguably one of if not the most capable aircraft carrier in the world virtually its only drawback is its price tagnearly 13 billion. Possible yesbut why would youAn aircraft carrier is basically a platform to launch and retrieve aircraftan aircraft carrier based on trimaran or catamaran hulls would be extremely larger than the present designhangers accommodation storage and at present cat and trap would take up most of the spaceA Nimitz class carrier would be twice the size. Some proposed trimaran carrier designs incorporate a flight deck that spans across the top of all 3 hulls but the hangar is still situated within the central hull because the outer hulls support the flight deck only.

1 Technology Combat Characteristics 2 History 3 Gallery 4 Trivia 5 External links The Takemikazuchi was a trimaran naval vessel and the flagship of an Orb Union expeditionary fleet. Only thing is the Trimaran will take a major hit to Internal space. Austal shipyardGeneral Dynamics USS Independence LCS-2 is the lead ship for the Independence variant and will be the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the concept of independence.

But there are cheaper and smaller alternatives already in. For a carrier you might as well just increase Beam to the width of the Trimaran. Placing it in the middle of a ship as would nominally be warranted in a trimaran design causes landing aircraft to experience anywhere from moderate to severe turbulence.

The advantages of a multi-hull carrier are stability survivability and interior volume. With UCAVs F 35c Crew and Hovercraft. Russias ship design bureau comes up with catamaran aircraft carrier conceptMOSCOW.

That is a catamaran or trimaran carrier with a greatly enlarged island incorporating the hanger. The very low roll angles of a catamaran are a major asset for aircraft operation. The added deck area is greatly useful to a carrier and so is added hangar area.